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Exploitative zero-hours contracts provide employers with one-sided flexibility while offering workers no guaranteed income from one week to the next.However, a central, unresolved question for the new administration to navigate is how widely the right to guaranteed hours should apply – specifically, where ministers should set the ‘low-hours threshold’. That threshold will determ...

Workers without fixed hours who regularly work 20–30 hours a week are 73 per cent more likely to fall behind on bills than comparable fixed-hours workers  Government proposals risk excluding these workers from new guaranteed-hours protectionsIPPR calls for guaranteed-hours rights to cover workers contracted for 30 hours a week or lessWorkers without fixed hours who regularly wor...

IPPR has responded to today’s homelessness statistics from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, which reveal that:The number of households in temporary accommodation in England at the end of March 2026 reached a record high of 135,580. There were increases for both households with children and adult only households in temporary accommodation.The number of h...

Fiscal rules exist to assure markets of responsible budgeting and fiscal sustainability, and hold government to account. But over the years, UK rules have been chopped and changed multiple times, somewhat weakening markets’ reliance on them. Moreover, current fiscal rules have focussed the minds of the public, politicians and markets on narrow concepts of what it means to be fis...

Debt interest on course to absorb more than a fifth of government revenue by 2074–75, finds IPPRUK is not on a fiscally sustainable track due to failure to tackle long-term pressures and short-sighted fiscal rulesIPPR says government should carefully review fiscal framework in next parliamentFuture generations are on track to see one in every five pounds of government revenue sw...