Our work on the UK’s regional disparities has been the engine behind the levelling up agenda. This programme focuses on bridging the UK’s longstanding spatial inequalities and bringing economic opportunity to places which have lagged behind for too long.
Unity Howard, Director of the New Schools Network and co-editor of Lost Learning, spoke to Shelagh Fogarty on LBC.
Will Tanner, Onward's Director, spoke to Ayesha Hazarika on Times Radio.
As a paper by Onward think tank set out, cutting council tax rates in the lowest band and raising it for the highest would give poorer households, with a higher propensity to consume, more spending power. Rich households can absorb higher council rates.
The report considers which tax changes might have the biggest impact on helping people in the most deprived parts of the country as we recover from a global pandemic.
MP for North Devon, Selaine Saxby, considers the impact of different taxes on the South West using Onward's modelling in 'Levelling Up the Tax System'.
Council tax should be a key target for reform, according to the think tank Onward in research for the Levelling Up Taskforce, which counts 65 'red wall' MP's among its backers.
Shocking economic divide between London and rest of UK exposed.
Onward's report 'Levelling up' highlights the extent to which government R&D spending varies across the country, and how changing this will benefit the economy overall.
London and the South East get more per head in taxpayer cash for transport, housing, innovation and culture, says Onward, a Conservative-leaning think tank, in a report that paves the way for changes to Treasury rules.
In a well-timed pre-budget report intervention this week, a report from the centre right thinktank Onward proposes a series of areas and goals on which Mr Sunak could concentrate.