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The Social Market Foundation is delighted to announce that its new Chair will be Mary Ann Sieghart. The leading political and social affairs journalist succeeds Labour peer Lord Lipsey. - Read more...
The Government’s announcement today on its benefit reform plans sets out an ambitious agenda for reform but raises questions that must be answered if it is to be successful, says the Social Market Foundation, a leading UK think-tank. Secretary of State for Work & Pensions, Iain Duncan Smith, has announced today a consultation on the Government’s plans to simplify the benefit system by rolling all benefits and tax credits into a single Universal Credit. The aim is to make work financially worthwhile for people to work a small number of hours each week, as well as to make the system easier to understand for claimants. - Read more...
Responding to the announcement that the NHS White Paper is to transfer billions of pounds from Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) to GPs to directly commission services David Furness, author of the SMF’s major health report, commented: - Read more...
The cuts that the Coalition Government will have to make to those departments whose budgets are not protected will be around 34% rather than the 25% that has previously been anticipated. The chancellor has indicated that education and defence will be protected from the full brunt of the cuts. This means other departments will have to find additional cuts amounting to over one-third of their budgets, new analysis by the Social market Foundation think tank shows. - Read more...
The package of tax rises and benefit cuts in the Emergency Budget today leaves the Government having to find cuts in public spending that are politically infeasible warns the Social Market Foundation. - Read more...
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