Category Archives: Media Release
Press & Media
Disabled Londoners left behind in booming jobs market
The capital is “wasting huge opportunities” to make its economy bigger and fairer because disabled Londoners are not being fully supported into work, the Social Market Foundation think-tank said. New...
Published: | 01 May 2018 |
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Warm Home Discount traps low-income households on worse energy deals
The Social Market Foundation think-tank found that the Warm Home Discount (WHD) can be responsible for discouraging some low-income customers from switching energy suppliers, increasing the risk that they pay...
Published: | 23 April 2018 |
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Some British universities are denying female academics permanent contracts to avoid paying them generous maternity packages
Professor Troeger was speaking at the Social Market Foundation think-tank, where she has published a paper based on an analysis of the careers of 10,000 female academics. The unfair treatment...
Published: | 19 April 2018 |
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Remain-voting areas will be hardest-hit by Brexit
The local council areas that will be hardest-hit by Brexit are in the wealthier south-east of England, which tended to support the Remain campaign, the research shows. Those places will...
Published: | 27 March 2018 |
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Sellers and landlords should have “Flood Performance Certificates” for homes
The Social Market Foundation raised the possibility of flood certificates — modelled on Energy Performance Certificates — in research highlighting the need to help owners to do more to prepare...
Published: | 22 March 2018 |
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Speech by Tom Tugendhat MP
Check against delivery. Download in PDF I’ve been asked to talk about markets. Perhaps because I’m a Conservative. But the truth is, markets aren’t political. They are an instinctive form...
Published: | 06 February 2018 |
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Water nationalisation would cost £90 billion
The figure, which would be more than a tenth of all annual Government spending, has been calculated by the Social Market Foundation. The cross-party think-tank estimated the potential costs of...
Published: | 05 February 2018 |
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Half of white working-class and black British students in England get into university with vocational qualifications such as BTECs
The figures are revealed in new research from the Social Market Foundation, which is calling on ministers and the new university regulator, the Office for Students, to do more to...
Published: | 29 January 2018 |
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Insurance premium tax now raising equivalent of £179 for each UK household
About half of this is paid directly by households on insurance products – the equivalent of £89 per household – with the remainder paid by businesses. Business costs associated with...
Published: | 30 October 2017 |
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