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United Kingdom

Working paper

Decarbonising the UK’s building stock: can immigration policy help solve workforce challenges?


The United Kingdom has made significant commitments to both low carbon heating and energy efficiency. However little progress has been made and the country has fallen far behind the rest Europe. This paper suggests five immigration policy options to support the development of the United Kingdom’s retrofitting workforce.
Report

Growing green: a proposal for a national investment fund


This report recognises that any successful implementation of a UK green industrial strategy will require a coordinated set of policy instruments, particularly those providing financing for investments in net-zero economic activities.
Policy report

How is evidence used in tax policy making?


This report documents how different types of evidence feed into tax policy-making. It aims to help external stakeholders understand how the evidence they produce is used and how they could better feed into policy-making, and offers the government recommendations for how it can use such evidence more effectively.
Report

Ready steady grow: how the Treasury can mainstream circular business


This report describes circular approaches used by ten companies in the United Kingdom. All are viable businesses, with established markets. The research suggests that to move these businesses from the periphery to the mainstream, they will need more support from the government, and from the UK Treasury, in particular.
Report

Blessing or bloat? Non-academic staffing in New Zealand universities in comparative perspective


This report examines non-academic employees in New Zealand universities. It presents and analyses a range of data from the New Zealand Ministry of Education, and from universities themselves, to investigate the scale and composition of New Zealand universities’ administrative staffing.
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