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Tom Sasse

Report

Tackling obesity: improving policy making on food and health

Every UK government since 1992 has identified obesity as a major problem. There have been multiple strategies, policies, targets and institutional reforms – yet obesity has kept on rising. This report examines why efforts to date have not worked, and sets out what government should...
Policy report

Tackling the UK’s energy efficiency problem

With the United Kingdom paying the price for a decade of policy failure on energy policy, and with ministers giving the issue insufficient attention, this report sets out how the government can learn from successes abroad and failures at home, and develop a stable, long-term...
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Managing extreme risks: how the new government can learn from Covid to be better prepared for the next crisis

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed weaknesses in the United Kingdom’s approach to managing extreme risks. This report looks at some of the problems that emerged and sets out recommendations for how the UK government could strengthen its risk management to ensure that the nation is better...
Policy report

Passing the net zero test: how to achieve policy coherence on climate change

Net zero is a huge national mission in the United Kingdom that will require policies from the whole-of-government to pull in the same direction. This report, which draws on a roundtable held in February 2022, explores how that objective might be achieved.
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Better policy making

Successive governments have struggled to tackle many of the biggest policy problems the country faces. This report examines the causes of persistent failures and sets out recommendations as to how government – both ministers and officials – could change to make policy better.