Publications
Publications
The Lyons Inquiry into local government:
delivering devolution?
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Author: Adam Marshall
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Price: Free
Publication Date: 27 March 2007
This paper first sets out the Lyons Inquiry’s headline conclusions, focusing on the short-term ‘quick wins’ that could help to stabilise the local government finance system and re-build confidence in local taxation and local stewardship of resources. Second, it examines the Government’s immediate reaction – and what will happen next.
Centre for Cities has re-launched as an independent think tank. You can visit them online at http://www.centreforcities.org.

Capable Communities
Public Service Reform: The next chapter
In this paper we turn our attention to the role citizens and communities can play in directly producing services, setting out the challenges that lie ahead, and identifying the questions our research will seek to answer over the coming months.
The English Question
ippr surveys MPs

ippr has conducted a survey of MPs to find out if they think that England is losing out as a result of these changes, as many people have claimed.
You Can’t Put Me In A Box
Super-diversity and the end of identity politics in Britain

This paper attempts to map out just how diverse Britain is, both in terms of who lives in Britain and how they identify themselves.

