Publications
The Fiscal Landscape: Understanding contributions and benefits
This project is part of the third and final strand of our Scoping the Challenges series. Having identified the case for reform, we now consider how we might finance public services in light of the demand pressures in 2020. The current fiscal situation and impending public spending cuts makes this work even more urgent and important. How, for example, will we meet the costs of an ageing population when there is already a great hole in the social care budget? What of the cost implications of increased longevity on the health service and pensions? In considering what the state should provide and how it can be funded in the future, it is vital that we understand the current pattern of tax and spending in the UK. Only then can we have an informed discussion on what can be cut, and who will feel the pain. ‘The Fiscal Landscape: Understanding the contributions and benefits’ is a first step in our attempt to shed greater light on ‘who gains, who pays, and how much?’ from UK public spending.
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Articles
The coalition's NHS reforms - far enough or a 'quick fix'?
The NHS was recently ranked as one of the most efficient and effective health systems in the world, so is radical reform an unnecessary risk? Dr Greg Parston looks into the matter.
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A Budget for cuts but is it a Budget for reform?
Either public services need to be reformed or they don't. It makes no sense to exclude the most expensive service of all from this process, the NHS, writes Ben Lucas, director 2020 PST.
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Seize the day
Ben Lucas talks spending cuts and suggests that now is the time to sieze the opportunity for structural reform with a long-term approach for a new post-Beveridge framework for public services.
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Rebuilding Britain: putting 'localism' into practice
The new Government is rightly committed to dispersing power and localising decision-making.
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General Election 2010 - what about the issues?
The story of the election so far has been the rise of Clegg and the Liberal Democrats and the consequences this may have on the result. Change has become the central question – the choice being about who can manage this best and who personifies it the most. But change for what? It is striking that policy has received less attention in this than in any previous election.
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