Media Coverage

Autumn Statement: What will George Osborne say? (The Telegraph)

The Chancellor should merge existing taxes rather than introduce new charges, says the CPS.

Centre for Policy Studies demands pension overhaul (FT Adviser)

Michael Johnson of the CPS says the current tax relief framework should be overhauled.

Autumn Statement: CPS Calls For Action On Debt (Sky News)

The Chancellor should freeze international aid and state benefits immediately, says the CPS.

Recommendations for Autumn Statement

The Chancellor looks likely to miss his net debt target on unchanged policies. In a Centre For Policy Studies briefing note, published on Friday 30 November, Ryan Bourne and Tim Knox recommend that he sets out a clear path to reducing government spending to 38% of GDP.

Thatcher’s favourite think tank backs Danny Alexander (Spectator)

The Spectator's Jonathan Jones reports on the CPS's ideas for pension reform.

A million more working families live in poverty than households where everyone is on the dole (Daily Mail)

Research by the CPS shows that spiralling welfare costs undermine the Government's aim to make work pay.

Osborne's lose-lose Autumn Statement dilemma

Growth Bulletin 22nd November 2012.

The Tories have gone astray – and I helped (The Telegraph)

CPS Board Member George Bridges writes in The Daily Telegraph that ever since 1997, the Conservative Party has put strategy above principle, with disastrous results.

The poor are growing richer – and it’s nothing to do with redistribution (City AM)

Head of Economic Research Ryan Bourne writes for City AM.

George Osborne, balancing the budget on the backs of the rich (The Spectator)

Michael Johnson CPS Pointmaker 'Bring Back the 10p Rebate' received a mention in David Blackburn's Spectator Coffee House blog.

Sharpening the axe: comprehensive spending review II?

Growth bulletin 07/11/2012.

Families face £1,200 bill for public sector pensions (Daily Mail)

Expert reveals 80 per cent of funds are paid for by taxpayer

Households face £1,230 bill to plug public sector pension black hole (The Telegraph)

Households face an annual bill of £1,230 by 2017 to plug the “unsustainable” black hole in public sector pensions as Coalition reforms still leave the taxpayer paying for £4 in every £5.

Switch off subsidies for inefficient wind farms (The Yorkshire Post)

CPS Energy Expert Tony Lodge writes for The Yorkshire Post on John Hayes MP's recent comments on windfarms.

The real reasons why living costs are still going up (City AM)

Head of Economic Research Ryan Bourne writes for City AM's Forum on living standards.