The UK must take action on the current energy bill system to fix the unfair levy system and offer a clear route to cheap energy. By rebalancing levies, we can accelerate the decarbonisation of home ...

How a green ratio of 2.5 to 1 would make a heat pump cheaper than a gas boiler over the same lifespan The chart below takes an example home and demonstrates how the running cost of a heat pump ...

Heat pump users are highly satisfied with their heat pumps, considering them to be safe, reliable, quiet heat sources that are effective for space heating and producing hot water. Overall, ...

All those interviewed overwhelmingly support more government intervention to tackle rates of obesity, drawing on their own personal experience in government. The report is supported and published by ...

This report primarily uses data on heat pumps from EurObserv’er for the years between 2011 and 2021. The majority of the heat pumps in this dataset are air-to-air heat pumps, many of which are used ...

Toby worked with local governments to develop and pilot improvements to services that support young children and families. This report outlines the potential of AI tools in schools and colleges, and ...

Removing levies would make energy cheaper for everyone One option for reforming levies is to remove all the levies from electricity. This would make energy bills cheaper for every household in Britain ...

There is good evidence that loneliness causes worse mental health and wellbeing outcomes. The impact on mental health is potentially substantial, for example, people who report feeling lonely are 2.25 ...

At this very early stage in the responses to the pandemic, four narratives are taking shape, pointing us to quite different futures. These scenarios combine elements of continuity and discontinuity, ...

A new batch of Census 2021 data on housing has just been released, giving us a chance to see how homes across England and Wales are heated. Beyond being able to see whether homes have central heating ...

The pandemic will change the world permanently and profoundly. Even if countries can control the spread of COVID-19 in the coming months, there will be vast political, economic, social, technological, ...

The impact of reducing the flow temperature of a domestic gas condensing boiler was measured at whole-house level under controlled conditions at the University of Salford Energy House test facility.