The Economics of Universal Credit was published by The Economic Affairs Committee of the House of Lords. This paper discusses the viability of Universal Credit as one of the most ambitious policies of welfare reform in a generation, and what this means in a period of rising unemployment and economic insecurity.
This paper was published by the Education Committee, U.K. Parliament in June 2020. Food poverty is a feature of daily life for millions of children in the United Kingdom who rely on Government-funded meal programmes in school. The long-term implications of hunger on physical and cognitive development within the context of the provision of support programmes by the Department for Education during the period of national lockdown are discussed here.
This paper was published by the Women and Equalities Committee in August 2020 as part of a series of inquiries that take into account the inter-related phenomena that drive gender-based inequality and socio-economic inegalitarianism, within the context of a decade of austerity measures, and the subsequent health pandemic.
