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Multiple hazards and residential rents in Switzerland: Who pays the price of extreme natural events? – Professor Franz Fuerst
The Whitehall Group – ‘An Action Plan for the Digital Patient’ a White Paper focussed on digitising the NHS
Following a recent dinner with its member, Lord Prior of Brampton, former Chairman of NHS England and currently Vice Chairman of Lazard UK, the Cambridge University Land Society Whitehall Group has been working on an initiative he took discussing the Digitisation of the NHS. The Whitehall Group has collaborated with Marlene Winfield, OBE , a former Healthcare Civil Servant, to produce a White Paper entitled “An Action Plan for the Digital Patient”.
This is the second White Paper the Whitehall Group has produced in the last 12 months. An important - yet often neglected - piece of the jigsaw to make the NHS sustainable in supporting people to manage long term illness. Along with their conditions 99% of the time, they use 70% of NHS resources: those who manage confidently use fewer resources and live better. There must be a coherent strategy to ensure that the digital health revolution does not ignore them. Below is a detailed action plan for the Digital Patient that considers many of the challenges faced in effecting change in health and social care, together with a press release. We hope that you will circulate the paper widely and support efforts for it, or something similar, to become a key part of England’s digital health strategy.
PRESS RELEASE: THE DIGITAL PATIENT: A LIFELINE FOR THE NHS
Embargoed: April 30, 2024 00.01 hours
Empowering people in England with long-term conditions to become 'digital patients'*, using technology to manage much of their own health and care, promises better outcomes for them and less pressure on struggling health and care services, an expert group argues in a policy paper today.
The Whitehall Group**, a high-level policy discussion and thought leadership group founded by the Cambridge University Land Society, today publishes an Action Plan for The Digital Patient. The Action Plan offers better support to people managing long-term conditions such as diabetes, heart and lung diseases, high blood pressure, dementia, and certain mental health issues. The paper follows consultation and deliberation amongst a range of stakeholders.
Only 24% of the public are satisfied with the NHS and only 13% with social care, according to the latest British Social Attitudes Survey. Both struggle to cope with a population that is living longer, but not aging better. People with long-term conditions use 70% of NHS resources: more confident self-managers have a better quality of life using fewer resources.
Mindful of the problems plaguing the NHS and social care today, the Action Plan details realistic and affordable ways to make transformative change for patients, building on change that is already happening for the workforce. Almost all people with one or more long-term conditions are at home looking after themselves 99% of the time. If they and their care professionals don’t develop their digital skills together, then the full health benefits will not be realised, nor will the full potential of increased access to services, better control, and more continuity of care. Yet the paper stresses that being a ‘digital patient’ should always be an additional choice to enhance traditional care, never a compulsory replacement.
The Action Plan addresses many challenges to change, including health inequalities, lack of digital skills, no internet or digital devices, fear of technology, low public trust, legacy paternalistic culture, NHS resistance to standardisation, pass the parcel funding, avoidable waste, procurement obstacles, data sharing, safety, new regulatory and legal issues.
The paper proposes a Task Group to bring scattered initiatives together into a coordinated Digital Patient Programme. The Task Group will have people with the expertise to deliver the Action Plan, including patients. The actions will:
· identify three long-term conditions to begin the process
· consider affordability and funding options
· build capacity of the NHS and social care organisations
· build capacity of health and social care professionals
· build capacity of people, especially those who might not otherwise benefit [Continues]
· build capacity of software and hardware IT suppliers
· oversee creation of national good practice standards and incentives to adopt them
· build confidence and trust among all parties.
The paper’s author, Marlene Winfield***, who has long experience of making change in the NHS and other public services, notes: ‘The journey to maximise the opportunities technology offers to patients will take time, focus, determination, some redirection of resources, openness by all parties to change, and faith that it will be worth it in the end. It is a journey patients and the workforce must make hand in hand, starting now.’
The Whitehall Group’s Chair, Colm Lauder, adds: ‘We were delighted to be able to facilitate the consultation, deliberation, and publication of this important and innovative report as the NHS enters its 76th year. We are extremely grateful to the leadership shown by Marlene Winfield in bringing this paper together and thank all those who contributed.’ [Ends]
* Digital patients choose to use digital aids to help them manage their health and care. Digital aids include computer and phone-based websites and connected devices that help people keep healthy (like fitness trackers), know when symptoms need professional attention (symptom checkers), make treatment choices (decision software), manage their care by others (patient portals, access to an electronic patient record, online booking and prescription ordering) and generally help them manage their mental and physical conditions themselves (interactive care plans, wearable monitoring devices, reminders, medication support, self-testing, health messages, peer support).
**The Whitehall Group, a forum of the Cambridge University Land Society, is a unique high level policy discussion and thought leadership group, founded for alumni of, or those with connections to, the University of Cambridge. The forum allows members and their guests to meet and discuss matters that are outside of their business/professional lives. Topics have included health, education, social mobility, infrastructure, housing, climate change, drugs, mental health, and science and technology. Members are made up, mostly, of leading City figures across a wide range of financial sectors but concentrated on land economy. It produces occasional policy papers. Past speakers have included senior people in the NHS, leading academics and journalists, ambassadors, current and former Government ministers from various countries, and European Commissioners.
*** Marlene Winfield OBE is currently a member of the Summary Care Record Exper
The heterogeneous relationship of owner-occupied and investment property with household portfolio choice. Professor Franz Fuerst
The dual nature of property as both a consumption and investment good presents a challenge for household
portfolios. Prior theoretical literature predicts a constraint imposed by property on investment decisions,
and empirical studies support this notion. However, previous research often overlooks investigating the
heterogeneity of this constraint and fails to differentiate between owner-occupied and investment property.
Building on a stochastic control model, we analyse the UK’s Wealth and Assets Survey panel and find that along
the distribution of how household allocate their wealth a one percentage point (pp) increase in the share of
owner-occupied property in the total portfolio is associated with a 0.07 pp decrease in the share of stocks in
liquid assets. However, this association varies significantly based on the value of the owner-occupied property
share. For low values of the owner-occupied property share, the association with stockholdings is negligible.
As the share of owner-occupied property increases, the negative association with stockholdings becomes more
pronounced: when the owner-occupied property share reaches 90%, a further 1 pp increase corresponds to a
0.14 pp decrease in the share of stocks in liquid assets. By contrast, buy-to-let property shows no significant
relationship with stockholdings, supporting the idea that the constraint on portfolio decisions is primarily
driven by the role of property as a consumption good.
10th Whitehall Lecture given by Professor Philippe Sands, QC: A Short History of Colonialism, a Modern Crime Against Humanity – Chagos: The Last British Colony in Africa.
Professor Sands takes us from the horrors of the Holocaust in Poland and the Nuremberg Trials to the Chagos Islands and judgment against the UK at the International Court of Justice (I.J.C.) in 2019 – the last British colony in Africa.
This story is part of the succession of Human Rights problems facing the world today – the invasion of land borders, the use of national borders by authoritarian regimes, the plight of asylum seekers and refugees.
Defying the I.C.J advisory opinion, and the U.N.General Assembly, the Chagos Islands case goes before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to which the British Government is a party. Professor Sands represents the Mauritian Government in this case. In a New York Times article he writes, ‘Britain’s brazen double standard [as] grotesque and damaging …..It undermines the Biden and UK Governments principles invoked to Beijing over China’s claims in the South China Sea’.
Whitehall Lecture given by Professor David Runciman
“Did Covid Kill the Climate? How Democracies Fail in a Time of Crisis” given by David Runciman, Professor of Politics, University of Cambridge
“If ever we need a strong signal from world leaders, for people like you, that we are going to solve this, then this is now” …“Real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics” – Sir David Attenborough
This Whitehall Lecture comes at a critical time in world affairs with major fires raging across North America and Australia; world-wide flooding; unprecedented melting of ice-caps; a pandemic of global proportions killing over 1 million people and over 33 million cases and both rising. We are experiencing the greatest economic crisis of most of our lifetimes and in the free democratic world of government, an unprecedented crisis of leadership, a growing threat of authoritarianism and failing democracies.
CULS Working Paper Series No. 01 (2021) Interpretable Machine Learning for Real Estate Market Analysis
While Machine Learning (ML) excels at predictive tasks, its inferential capacity is limited due to its complex non-parametric structure. This paper aims to elucidate the analytical behavior of ML through Interpretable Machine Learning (IML) in a real estate context.
Eighth Whitehall Lecture given by Professor Sir Paul Collier CBE FBA
The Future of Capitalism
Is there an economic case for energy-efficient dwellings in the UK private rental market? Authors – Franz Fuerst, Michel Ferreira, Cardia Haddad, Hassan Adan
The rented sector of the housing market is a key concern for policies trying to improve dwelling-level
energy efficiency levels. Currently, stepping up energy efficiency levels in the residential sector is hindered
by a number of uncertainties. For rental properties, this is complicated by the split incentive
problem (i.e. landlords do not benefit directly from the savings arising from these investments). Instead,
the benefits are enjoyed by the tenants of these upgraded properties via lower energy bills and/or
enhanced thermal comfort. Hence, the only way to recoup the investments is typically for landlords to
obtain higher rents. This study confirms that energy efficiency features, as measured by the Energy
Performance Certificate rating, are positively associated with a small but significant influence on
transaction prices and quoted rental prices. Conversely, there appears to be a price discount for dwellings
in the lowest energy performance category. A model of time-on-market yields inconclusive results but
there is some, albeit weak, evidence of a negative relationship between time-on-market and energy
efficiency ratings as more energy efficient dwellings tend to lease up more quickly.
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Housing Affordability: Is New Local Supply the Key?
Determinants of Energy Consumption and Exposure to Energy Price Risk: A UK Study
The Real Estate Lending Black Hole – Presentation given By Rupert Clarke
Commercial Real Estate Lending Report by Rupert Clarke
The CRE Lending Black Hole:
Steady gains followed by extreme pains.
A report for the Property Industry Alliance Debt Group
Rupert J Clarke
Chairman, Property Industry Alliance Long-term Value Working Group
An analysis of Commercial Property Lending Industry profits and losses in the 1992 to
2008 lending cycle, identifying financial characteristics and behaviours related to that
and previous cycles, and establishing organisational strategies to reduce financial risks
in future cycles.
Market Trends 2018 – Presentation by Chris Bennett, Managing Director, Head of London Branch DekaBank Deutsche Girozentral
Market Trends 2018 – Presentation by Michael Brodtman Executive Director, Valuations and Advisory Services, CBRE
Market Trends 2018 – Presentation by Andrew Hook, Lead Fund manager for the Aviva Investors UK Property Fund.
‘Procurement post Grenfell and Carillion.’ A talk by Professor David Mosey PhD, Kings College London
Professor David Mosey PhD is Director of the Centre of Construction Law and Dispute Resolution at King’s College London, a position which he took up in May 2013 after 21 years leading the Projects and Construction team at solicitors Trowers and Hamlins LLP where he remains a consultant. He is an experienced adviser on UK and international construction and engineering projects. Currently, he is leading research at KCL into the impact of new models of project procurement and supply chain collaboration on improving value of public sector construction projects, also on the legal issues arising from BIM.
Denman Lecture, given by Professor Tony Venables. ‘Urbanisation in Africa: the challenge of building cities that work.’
Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa are experiencing rapid population growth. Yet their economic growth has not kept pace. Why? One factor might be low capital investment, due in part to Africa’s relative poverty: Other regions have reached similar stages of urbanisation at higher per capita GDP. In this lecture Tony discussed a deeper reason: that African cities are closed to the world. Compared with other developing cities, cities in Africa produce few goods and services for trade on regional and international markets. He explored how African cities can escape their development trap, develop scale economies, and increase investment.
Tony Venables, BP Professor of Economics, University of Oxford
Tony is director of the Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies, and serves on the Steering Group of the International Growth Centre. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Econometric Society. Former positions include Chief Economist at the UK DFID, professor at the London School of Economics, research manager of the Trade Research Group in the World Bank, and advisor to the UK Treasury. He is a pioneer of New Economic Geography (along with Paul Krugman and Masahisa Fujita) and has major publications in international trade theory and spatial economics. He has co-authored two highly influential books, ‘The Spatial Economy – Cities, Regions and International Trade’, and ‘Multinationals in the World Economy’. Most recently he has co-authored the book ‘Africa’s Cities : Opening Doors to the World’. His publications have been cited almost 50,000 times, making him one of the world’s most cited economists. Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa are experiencing rapid population growth. Yet their economic growth has not kept pace. Why? One factor might be low capital investment, due in part to Africa’s relative poverty: Other regions have reached similar stages of urbanisation at higher per capita GDP. Tony will discuss a deeper reason: that African cities are closed to the world. Compared with other developing cities, cities in Africa produce few goods and services for trade on regional and international markets. He will explore how African cities can escape their development trap, develop scale economies, and increase investment.
This is the link to the lecture: https://www.dropbox.com/s/khe6d4urf7dl5wp/Land_Society_291117.mp4?dl=0
Alastair Ross Goobey CBE Memorial Lecture given by Roger Madelin CBE
Roger joined Argent in 1987. He became a Director in 1989 and, for the ten years that followed, was responsible for delivering all of Argent’s developments, including Green Park and Thames Valley Park in Reading, Brindleyplace in Birmingham, and Piccadilly in Manchester and office buildings in the City of London.
He became CEO in 1997 after an innovative acquisition by British Telecom Pension Scheme and, due to the dramatic expansion of Argent’s business, his long-term colleague David Partridge joined him as Joint CEO in 2006. At the end of 2012 Argent restructured as a Limited Liability Partnership and Roger stepped back from new Argent business and concentrated on specific delivery aspects of King’s Cross including the design and delivery of 3 major buildings for the Aga Khan Development Network.
In January 2016, after 29 years, Roger formally left Argent and joined British Land as Head of Canada Water, a 46 acre development opportunity in Central London. He will maintain a consultancy role at King’s Cross with Argent in connection with the Aga Khan buildings.
Roger is an Honorary Fellow of RIBA, an Honorary Fellow of the College of Estate Management and was awarded a CBE for ‘services to sustainable development’ in the 2007 Honours List.‘Politics, planning, finance and city making – becoming easier?’ Given by Roger Madelin CBE, Head of Canada Water Development, British Land PLC
Market Trends 2017 – Prospects for Property in an Uncertain Economic & Political Climate
This was the tenth successive year that CULS has held this extremely popular panel discussion on the current state of the commercial property market. The expert panel comprised experienced professionals from different sectors of the market, who gave their views on the direction of the commercial market will take in 2018 and beyond. The seminar considered the outlook for property in the face of a volatile political environment, shifting market fundamentals and conflicting economic signals.
Annual CEO Talk – 4th July 2017, given by Marcus Sperber, Managing Director, BlackRock
The Annual CEO Talk, given by Marcus Sperber on 4th July 2017 was entitled: 'Where do we go from here?'
The Nature of Property Cycles – Dr Robin Goodchild
The Nature of Property Cycles was a talk given by Dr Robin Goodchild Dr Robin Goodchild, LaSalle Investment Management’s International Director, Global Research & Strategy at a joint meeting of CULS, IPF and SPR. He is a past president of both CULS and SPR as well as having been an active member of the IPF for over 25 years including chairing the Residential Special Interest Group. He joined LaSalle in 1997 as European Research Director and he describes his job as knowing where the property markets of the UK and Europe are headed. Over his professional career, which began in 1971, he has developed a deep understanding of property cycles which includes a book chapter on the topic in the latest edition of ‘Commercial Mortgage Loans and CMBS: developments in the European Market‘.*
Robin presented his ideas on property cycles and these were discussed with two experts
Dr Richard Barras, the founder of Property Market Analysis, an Honorary Fellow of SPR, and author of several books on property cycles including ‘Building Cycles – Growth & Instability’ (2009) and ‘A Wealth of Buildings. Marking the Rhythm of English History’ (2016)
Peter Denton, Group Finance Director, The Hyde Group and an IPF member, has 23 years of pan European real estate sector experience as an investment partner at Starwood Capital and, prior to that, EMEA property investment banking at BNP Paribas, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, Eurohypo and WestImmo.
The event was chaired by Robert Peto, a past president of both RICS and CULS, who retired at the end of 2015 from DTZ after a 45 year career. He is best known as a valuation expert, but has been a fund manager since 1993 with DTZ Investors. He is an out-spoken market commentator.
This is the link to the film of the event hosted by Youtube: https://youtu.be/_C-HMht_2cw
*Petersen, Andrew V. (2016) Commercial Mortgage Loans and CMBS: Developments in the European Market Third Edition, Sweet & Maxwell, London
OBESITY AND URBAN FORM: EVIDENCE FROM LONDON by OLIVER BRECHER, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, and FRANZ FUERST, CULS FELLOW, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
This paper examines the association between urban form and obesity rates at the neighbourhood level. Using data from London, UK in a regression and mediation analysis framework, we find that high population density, more diverse land use, better public transport access and higher street connectivity are all associated with lower obesity rates after controlling for a range of possible confounders such as income, unemployment, education and age. These findings corroborate and extend the existing empirical evidence on the crucial role of neighbourhood factors, in particular built environment factors, in counteracting rising obesity levels in large cities and metropolitan areas.
INCOME RISK IN ENERGY-EFFICIENT OFFICE BUILDINGS BY NIKODEM SZUMILO, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE FRANZ FUERST, CULS FELLOW, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
The study investigates uncertainty of financial performance of energy efficient office buildings to establish how making an asset energy efficient changes its financial characteristics. Two hypotheses explaining why a change may occur are presented and examined (one based on higher demand and one on higher economic efficiency). A large panel dataset, consisting of 30 time periods for 14,395 US commercial office buildings, is examined using different econometric approaches. Overall, the results seem to support theoretical predictions and show a structural change in income risk characteristics of energy efficient assets.
The Spatial Impact of Employment Centres on Housing Markets by: Nikodem Szumilo, University of Cambridge; Edyta Laszkiewicz, University of Losz, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, Franz Fuerst, CULS Fellow, University of Cambridge
Local economic growth tends to affect neighbourhood house prices unevenly. It has been
observed that prime locations experience price hikes far in excess of the surrounding local area. Yet,
this phenomenon is not well captured by existing economic models. This research provides a model
of spatial and temporal interactions between housing and employment markets. The results show that
rapid growth of employment centres increases house prices in neighbouring locations even after
adjusting for fundamentals. It appears that the spatial clustering of companies creates an option value
for existing and potential employees that goes beyond ease of access for commuting purposes.
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Market Trends 2016 – Post Brexit Prospects For Property
The Commercial Property Forum and its Panellists considered the state of the property market post Brexit.
Office Market Segmentation in Emerging Markets A Study of Sao Paulo
This study uses a unique dataset from Sao Paulo, Brazil, to investigate how corporate and smaller occupiers differ in their willingness to pay for principal office rent determinants. We partition our sample of buildings based on the average size of leasable units to test whether rent premiums associated with property attributes, locational submarkets and economic change can be generalized or are localized to each group. Results from hedonic regressions show that corporate and smaller occupier properties form both spatial and non-spatial submarkets, but not in terms of temporal changes in market rent which are found to be highly correlated across office market segments. These findings suggest that these property-type segments can be classified as imperfect substitutes with distinct underlying pricing differences for building vintage, specification, size and location, but not as independent real estate markets.
Are Energy Efficiency Ratings Ignored in the German Housing Market? Evidence from a Large-Sample Hedonic Study BY MARCELO CAJIAS, PATRIZIA IMMOBILIEN FRANZ FUERST*, CULS FELLOW, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE SVEN BIENERT, IREBS, UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG
Are Energy Efficiency Ratings Ignored in the German Housing Market? – Evidence From a Large-Sample Hedonic Study
This paper is part of a working paper series by Dr Franz Fuerst, CULS Reader in the Department of Land Economy.
Conceptualising the role of personality traits in making investment decisions: The case of residential energy efficiency
This paper is part of a working series by Dr Franz Fuerst, the CULS Fellow.
Green Luxury Goods? The Economics of Eco-Labels in the Japanese Housing Market By Franz Fuerst, CULS Fellow, University of Cambridge, Chihiro Shimizu, National University of Singapore
This paper is part of a working series by Dr Franz Fuerst, the CULS Fellow.
Annual CEO Talk given by Alex Jeffrey, Chief Executive M&G Real Estate – ‘Finding Value in Crowded Markets.’
Market Trends 12th November 2015 – Power point Presentation
Size Signals Success: Evidence from Real Estate Private Equity – by Dr Sebastian Krautz and Dr Franz Fuerst
This paper is part of a working series by Dr Franz Fuerst, CULS Fellow.
Information Supply and Demand in Securitized Real Estate Markets
This paper is part of a working series by Dr FRanz Fuerst, the CULS Fellow.
Green Clientele
This paper is part of a working series by Dr Franz Fuerst, the CULS Fellow.
The Dynamics of House Prices in Israel and the Effect of the Investor’s Fear Gauge
This paper is part of a working series by Dr Franz Fuerst, the CULS Fellow.
Determinants of Cap Rates in US Office Markets
This paper is part of a working series by Dr Franz Fuesrt, the CULS Fellow.
The Financial Rewards of Sustainability: A Global Performance Study of Real Estate Investment Trusts
This paper is part of a working series by Dr Franz Fuerst, the CULS Fellow.
Alternative Providers by Mike Kiely, President, Planning Officers Society
This presentation by Mike Kiely was given at the CULS APEC/National Planning Forum Event, 'Winners and Losers,' on 19th April 2016
Building the Homes We Need – Philip Barnes, Group Land and Planning Officer, Barratt Development Plc
This presentation : 'Building the Homes We need,' was given by Philip Barnes at the CULS APEC/National Planning Event on 19th April 2016
How Are Local Authorities Doing? by Alice Lester, Programme Manager, Planning Advisory Service
This presentation, 'How are Local Authorities Doing?' was given by Alice Lester at the CULS APEC/National Planning event, 'Winners and Losers' on 19th April 2016.
Report of the Local Plans Expert Group by John Rhodes.
This presentation was presented by Mike Hayes CBE, Secretary of the National Planning Forum on behalf of John Rhodes at the CULS APEC/National Planning Event, 'Winners and Losers,' on 19th April 2016.
The Role of Planning in Housing Delivery, by Steve Quartermain, Chief Planner, Dept. of Communities and Local Government,
This presentation was presented by Steve Quartermain at the CULS APEC/National Planning Event, 'Winners and Losers,' on 19th April 2016.
Estates Gazette commentary on the Lord Deighton Lecture
Estates Gazette published this article on 21st February 2015, following the successful Whitehall Lecture given by Lord Deighton CBE on Uk Infrastructure.
Market Trends 2014 – Presentation
Prospects for Property in a Post-Crash Election Year - 13th November 2014. Panel Discussion
Cambridge University Land Society Magazine 2014
Churchill II – A debate about the architectural competition to design one of the first Cambridge colleges of the modern era.
A write up of the debate about the competition for the design of Churchill College. The debate took place on 15th May 2014, in the offices of Pilbrow & Partners.
Estates Gazette Reporting on CULS Market Trends Meeting 2013
"Upping Interest Rates would upset property." Chris Berkin of Estates Gazette reports on CULS Market Trends seminar 21 November 2013.
Future Office – Philip Turner
Presentation by Philip Turner at the APEC Forum Future Workspace debate - 29th January 2014
“Myth or reality? Is the UK Property Market in recovery and if so what is it going to look like?”
Powerpoint presentation given at the Market Trends breakfast meeting, Thursday, 22nd November 2013.
Powerpoint presentation by Lucian Cook for the Institutional Investment Event
Six alumni explain how they are contributing to University life
Want to give something back but not sure how you can make a difference? Six alumni explain how they are contributing to University life.
Would Brexit Derail the Uk’s Position as the Global Leader on Energy and the Environment – an Occasional Paper by Professor Dr Douglas Crawford-Brown, Senior Member, Robinson College, University of Cambridge
Sea Level Rise and House Price Capitalisation – By Franz Fuerst, CULS Fellow, University of Cambridge + Georgia Warren-Myers, University of Melbourne
Developing a roadmap to cultural change: the stewardship of the NHS’s property portfolio – November 2013
‘Whitehall Lecture given by Richard Brown CBE, DL ‘UK Transport – are we investing enough to avoid gridlock and meet the capacity challenge?’ February2017
Whitehall Lecture given by Dame Kate Barker CBE. ‘How will we house our children? – The Future for UK Housing Policy.’ April 2015
Whitehall Lecture given by Professor Becky Francis. ‘The Role of Academies in English Education Policy.’ June 2017
Whitehall Lecture given by Lord Willetts, Chairman, The Resolution Foundation. ‘ UK Science and Innovation Policy – Three Barriers to applying research better.’ 3rd November 2016
Whitehall Lecture given by Professor Chris Ham CBE. ‘What needs to be done to secure the future of the NHS?’ December 2015
Whitehall Group whitepaper on Housing Policy – April 2023
This final paper reflects these suggestions and aims to provide a blueprint for further discussion in the various forums and housing networks with an ambition to make many of the recommendations a reality.
The constant revolving door of Housing Ministers at Westminster is unhelpful so the paper seeks to set policies to align to the longer-term ambition of net zero by 2050 to ensure, that together with the correct housing data, everyone can live in the correct home at every age and stage.
We are extremely grateful to Dame Kate Barker DBE for the Forward to the paper. We have indeed sought to write ‘without fear of vested interests’, with an ‘interesting mix of thoughtful and important recommendations’ and a plea ‘for more joined-up and coherent housing policy’.
We hope you enjoy reading the paper and welcome further dialogue.