Category Archives: Media Release

The Social Market Foundation (SMF) think-tank says that big companies in sectors such as broadband, mobile telephony and personal banking don’t face enough competition, meaning that consumers are hit with a...

The Social Market Foundation think-tank (SMF) says that financial regulators and the financial services industry focus too much on trying to get customers to switch their current accounts and don’t...

Average gross earnings (total pay) for July 2017 were £505 per week. Combined with the latest inflation figures, taking the economy as a whole, workers are £309 (annualised) worse off than a year ago. Private...

New analysis of economic and social data at a local authority level by the Social Market Foundation think tank finds that: five of the ten local authorities in Great Britain...

The report draws on new analysis by the House of Commons Library and shows that of the £9.1bn new spending on childcare and early education during this Parliament, just £250...

Over 14 million working age adults in Britain are not saving at all, and over 26 million British adults do not hold adequate rainy day or pension savings, according to...

The report, Outcomes-based reimbursement of medicines, argues that the NHS should adopt a new way of paying for drug treatments, based on whether or not treatments improve patients’ health. Adopting...

London’s universities have the worst drop-out rates in England, a new report reveals, with nearly one in ten students dropping out during their first year of study. The report ‘On...

Where children live is becoming a ever more important indicator of their educational performance, according to a study from a cross-party commission on educational inequality, chaired by Nick Clegg. The...