IPPR North East

@IPPRNorth's North East team, thinking up bold ideas for a fairer, greener, stronger North East.

[IPPR North @IPPRNorth]

Listening to today's Spring Budget it felt like the government had given up on levelling up.
The national insurance cut will leave the north further behind and there was nothing to end the crisis in council finances.

[Marcus Johns @MarcusIPPR]

Excellent to see @IPPRNorth's State of the North report's findings on wealth inequality discussed at PMQs - especially before today's budget.

Will today's budget rise to the challenge of tackling it or instead indulge it, locking in gaps in health, wealth, power & opportunity?

[Zoë Billingham @zoe_billingham]

Great job @MarcusIPPR for leading this year’s edition of State of the North 👏

[Arianna Giovannini @AriannaGi]

Brilliant,if sobering,new report from @MarcusIPPR & @IPPRNorth team

England’s regional divides keep widening: wealth per capita in the north-east will have declined to 54 per cent of that in the south-east by 2030

Levelling up will remain an empty slogan until this is addressed

[About Manchester @AboutMcr]

A new report out this morning from the people at @IPPRNorth reveals that the gap in Healthy Life Expectancy between the North and South East England won’t close until 2080 on current trends. https://t.co/LjRMvb7lRa

[Zoë Billingham @zoe_billingham]

Brilliant write up of our State of the North report ⁦@JenWilliams_FT⁩ ⁦@FT⁩ https://t.co/OktLfBBHDE

[Zoë Billingham @zoe_billingham]

Our 10th annual @IPPRNorth State of the North is published today. As we look ahead to next decade, it’s time to crank up the action on health, wealth, power & opportunity in this big election year.

[IPPR North East @IPPRNE]

3️⃣ Empower places
4️⃣ Create opportunity
5️⃣ Rebuild healthy places

From a green industrial strategy to health improvement zones, @IPPRNorth argues this package would truly rebalance England's regions - unlocking national prosperity too.

📝Read the report: https://t.co/95ldkBGdCR

[IPPR North East @IPPRNE]

Today, as northern leaders come together at #COTN24, @IPPRNorth publish #StateOfTheNorth 2024.

🔟 years on from our first State of the North, we look to the next 10 years - which could either renew our regions, or continue to deepen regional inequality.
https://t.co/95ldkBGdCR

[IPPR North East @IPPRNE]

Unless there is a step change in #LevellingUp policy, the North is set for more inequality - and 50+ years of sicker, shorter healthy lives.

We set out what that step change could look like to truly rebalance England:
1️⃣ Restore voters' trust
2️⃣ Rebalance wealth
(2/3)

[IPPR North @IPPRNorth]

@JenWilliams_FT @WWFTUK Last year in our report Parallel Lives, we detailed the extent of the £15 billion sale of council assets since 2010, made necessary to make ends meet.
https://t.co/rlTLGybZt5

[IPPR North @IPPRNorth]

“It’s selling the family silver — you can only use the assets once... If you’re forced to the pawnshop, it’s not a good sign. And effectively they’re at the pawnshop.”

Striking piece of journalism here by @JenWilliams_FT and @WWFTUK about the forced sale of council assets.

[Marcus Johns @MarcusIPPR]

Today’s release, supposedly shifting HS2 funds, is a smokescreen. Rerouting from national to local projects is a diversion not a solution. This false choice between local & regional hides longstanding failure to deliver either. We need genuine investment, not false choices.

[Centre for Cities @CentreforCities]

⏰This time next week: join @bevcraig @ndrlee @zoe_billingham and @AndrewCities for 'What next for fiscal devolution in urban areas?', part of our Urban Futures series with @LSEnews.

Book your place: https://t.co/4jQAyfYu6R

[IPPR North @IPPRNorth]

More than a 1/3 of all babies, children and young people in the North East are living in poverty, with the region having experienced the steepest increases in child poverty over much of the last decade, new research we worked on with @nechildpoverty
https://t.co/A6TLT4FZRI

[IPPR North East @IPPRNE]

A landmark @nechildpoverty report out today, which we were pleased to support alongside 150+ organisations in the region. Devolution is an opportunity to help tackle this huge challenge - with mayoral elections in May, we call on all candidates to put this blueprint into action📝

[North East Child Poverty Commission @nechildpoverty]

🚨 Today we have published a new report, based on:

📊 Extensive new data analysis about child poverty and its impacts in – and on – our region

🗨️ Conversations with over 150 North East organisations, as well as parents, carers and young people, over the best part of a year 🧵

[IPPR @IPPR]

Today’s statistics on fuel poverty make for grim reading. Over three million homes are in fuel poverty and nine million homes are spending more than 10 per cent of their income on energy bills.

[IPPR @IPPR]

❤️‍🩹 | NEW REPORT: After headway in the 20th century, progress on cardiovascular disease has stalled. Heart disease is now the single largest factor behind people leaving work due to ill health. In #BrokenHearted we set out a plan to get back on track.

https://t.co/16JXQlu8Up

[IPPR @IPPR]

🚂 | NEW BRIEFING: In this short paper we bring together the policies and ideas that IPPR see as essential to the future of transport in the UK.

🧵 of the highlights...

https://t.co/FAWE7i45k7

[Zoë Billingham @zoe_billingham]

Make it make sense! HS2 verdict: scheme now very poor value for money after Northern leg cancellation says @CommonsPAC.
https://t.co/Rjqbdcdt0S