Assessing the unequal impact of tax and welfare reform in London July 17th, 2019 by Spencer Thompson Today, GLA City Intelligence published the first cumulative impact assessment (CIA) of welfare and tax reform in London. The UK tax-benefit system has undergone wide-reaching changes since 2010, including the gradual rollout of Universal Credit, above-inflation increases in the tax-free personal tax allowance and the introduction of the National Living Wage, alongside a host of…
The first food security estimates for London June 26th, 2019 by Barry Fong Back in October 2018, we wrote about the GLA’s plans to measure food security in London for the first time, through a series of questions included in the Survey of Londoners. The Survey has now concluded and the first results have been published on the London Datastore. With regard to food security the picture is…