Island Communities in the UK

A (renewed) policy focus on island communities in the UK…?

While islands are areas of land surrounded by water, many are little more than barren rock with few plants on them and others are amongst the most crowded places on Earth. The largest British island is Great Britain which is the ninth-largest and third most populated island in the world. There are also some 32 […]

Commercialisation of government services

The commercialisation of (rural) government services…?

The money that Government spends on public goods and services can be broken down and understood in different ways: from total managed expenditure (TME) to departmental expenditure limits (DEL); and from annually managed expenditure (AME) to resource spending and capital spending. Collectively, total spending, at all levels of Government in the UK is estimated to […]

Money matters

Money matters: tackling (rural) financial exclusion

Many people in the UK lack access to even the most basic financial services or are forced to rely on high-cost products which can prove damaging to their long term health. The ‘poverty premium’, where the poor pay more, exacerbates financial exclusion and reinforces a vicious circle. With many local bank branches disappearing and a […]

Rural Infrastructure Gap

Mind the [rural] infrastructure gap

From the invention of the steam engine and World Wide Web, to splitting an atom and making a jet engine; for centuries we have been pioneers in infrastructure. But in a challenging fiscal and economic environment is the Government putting [rural] infrastructure at the centre of economic policy and industrial strategy? Jessica Sellick investigates.   […]

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