• Future Prisons

    Future Prisons urges the government to shut more than 30 run-down and poorly-located prisons and replace them with 12 state of the art ‘Hub Prisons’, containing up to 3,000 inmates. The new prisons would lead to huge costs savings, a reduction in reoffending rates and a better quality of life for prisoners and prison staff.

    Read more

    Future Prisons

  • Reforming Social Work

    Reforming Social Work, warns that without structural reform to social workers’ training programmes, councils could be in danger of missing serious incidents of abuse and neglect. This is likely to be exacerbated by low numbers of social workers with specific training and experience in handling cases involving children, with the supply of social workers not due to equal demand until 2022.

    Read more

    Social Workers

  • Privatising the Banks

    Creating a new generation of shareholders

    Privatising the Banks examines four scenarios for the state to sell off RBS and Lloyds, arguing that the best approach will be a mass share distribution coupled with sales to retail and institutional investors. Under the mass share distribution, applying taxpayers will receive shares worth £1,100-£1,650 on a no upfront cost, no risk basis.

    Read more • Watch video animation

    Privatising the Banks

  • PX energy bills and shale gas work cited in Parliament

    During a Commons debate on amendments to the Energy Bill, Mark Reckless quotes Policy Exchange evidence to the Energy & Climate Change Committee criticising government proposals for Electricity Market Reform for being predicated on the assumption of high future gas prices. Reckless also quoted figures from 2010 report Green Bills. Read more

    PX in Parliament

  • The folly of trying to map out our low carbon future

    Policy Exchange's Environment & Energy unit members Simon Moore and Guy Newey argue that Tim Yeo and Barry Gardiner's proposed electricity decarbonisation amendment to the Energy Bill is an unnecessary and potentially expensive commitment. They call for those who support action on climate change not to automatically support this amendment.  Read the blog

    Energy Bill Amendments

Donate

Wolfson Economics Prize

In the news

  • Build massive 'hub' prisons to replace Victorian 'dungeons', says report

    18 June 2013 | Build massive 'hub' prisons to replace Victorian 'dungeons', says report

    • The Telegraph covers Future Prisons, Policy Exchange's new report calling for the replacement of 30 old, run down prisons with 12 new, large state of the art 'Hub Prisons'. They quote Kevin Lockyer, author of the report and a former prison governor, criticising the conditions in the Victorian-era prisons at which he served.

  • Britain Encouraged to Build US-Style 'Super-Prisons'

    17 June 2013 | Britain Encouraged to Build US-Style 'Super-Prisons'

    • CNBC report on new Policy Exchange publication Future Prisons, which calls for the replacement of 30-35 older, run down prisons with 12 new, large, state of the art 'Hub Prisons'. These prisons would be significantly cheaper to run, saving the Ministry of Justice billions of pounds, and would be geared specifically toward reducing reoffending.

More news

New publications

  • If the Cap Fits: Reform of European Climate Policy and the EU Emissions Trading System

    19 June 2013 | If the Cap Fits: Reform of European Climate Policy and the EU Emissions Trading System

    • If the Cap Fits says that the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is currently too weak, which could lead to a surge in new coal generation. It will also fail to meet the European Union’s own carbon reduction objectives. The paper argues that a more ambitious cap on Europe’s emissions is essential and makes recommendations for reform.

  • Future Prisons: A radical plan to reform the prison estate

    17 June 2013 | Future Prisons: A radical plan to reform the prison estate

    • Future Prisons calls for the government to shut more than 30 run-down and poorly-located prisons and replace them with 12 state of the art ‘Hub Prisons’, containing up to 3,000 inmates. The new prisons would lead to huge costs savings, a reduction in reoffending rates and a better quality of life for prisoners and prison staff.

More publications

Blogs

  • It's time we stopped paying posh London hotel prices to lock up prisoners

    17 June 2013 | It's time we stopped paying posh London hotel prices to lock up prisoners

    • Max Chambers, Policy Exchange's Head of Crime & Justice, writes exposing the myth that by nature of their size, large prisons are worse than smaller ones. Max argues that the key determinant of a prison's performance is in fact age, and sets out the proposals from Future Prisons for replacing 30-35 old, run down prisons with 12 large, new 'Hub Prisons' geared towards reducing reoffending.

  • It's time to privatise RBS and Lloyds

    10 June 2013 | It's time to privatise RBS and Lloyds

    • James Barty, Senior Consultant for Financial Policy at Policy Exchange, sets out the plans from his report Privatising the Banks for selling off RBS and Lloyds. After examining several options, James sets out a mass share distribution, coupled with sales to institutional and retail investors, as the best option.

More blogs

Latest Events

  • Welfare: When does the State say no?

    18 June 2013 | Welfare: When does the State say no?

    • This event will look ask fundamental questions about the way the welfare state operates, including how far the government should be willing to reinforce living standards, whether giving people cash is the best way to distribute welfare, how wide the welfare state goes and whether contribution is taken into account.

  • A New Conversation with the Centre-Right about Climate Change

    13 June 2013 | A New Conversation with the Centre-Right about Climate Change

    • This debate will consider whether there is a genuine problem with climate action on the right of politics and how those who care about the environment might be better able to persuade doubters of the need for policy intervention. It will also see the launch of new research by Climate Outreach & Information Network (COIN) that examines the evidence for more effectively engaging centre-right citizens around climate change.

More events