Scott Corfe

The current system of policies supporting households with high energy bills is inadequate for an era of high energy bills. In this final, report with Public First, we present a new policy framework that should be in place by spring 2024 – to ensure warmer homes, fairer use of public money, and overall cheaper bills. It is part of a wider project commissioned and supported by Citizens Advice. What should energy bill relief do?

Published: 06 February 2023 The ethnic minority gap in financial products such as pensions and insurance is well-documented, but poorly understood. Drawing on existing and new survey data, and in-depth interviews, this report seeks to understand the scale of this gap, and possible explanations behind it, as well as proposing recommendations to policymakers and the industry on how to reduce the risk of disadvantage faced by ethnic minorities.

For the most part, it seems not. Groceries are an exception. The Covid-19 pandemic - with the social distancing and lockdowns it brought on - saw Brits shop online like never before. At the peak of our internet shopping frenzy, in January 2021, almost two fifths of retail sales (37.8%) in the UK were online, almost double what it was in January 2020 (20.2%). Internet Retail Sales as a percentage of total sales Source: ONS And there were signs that this change in shopping patterns would stick.