In a brand-new policy paper for Parliament Street, Dr. Peter Hill argues that in a post-Covid world there are alternatives to tax rises and spending cuts as a way of paying for the pandemic and stimulating a recovery. Through “debt monetisation” the Government could dramatically reduce the national debt overnight while also “priming the pump” for a post-Covid recovery. Read […]
Monday 8th February 2021 Today, InfoSecurity magazine reported on Parliament Street research showing that NHS staff reported 27,958 suspected phishing emails targeting the NHSmail email service in 2020. The article can be read here, or alternatively the text can be read below: NHS Staff Hit by Almost 140,000 Malicious Emails in 2020 Official figures from NHS Digital show that NHS […]
By Danny Bowman, Head of Campaigns The current global pandemic is the largest public health emergency of the last 100 years, with the Covid-19 virus infecting over 26 million and sadly taking the lives of 900,000 people across the globe. The virus continues to pose an exponential threat to the physical health of millions and plans to deal with a […]
Parliament Street is pleased to announce the publication of A Quantitative Analysis of Community Mental Health Provision in England During Covid-19 and the Subsequent Impact on the Police This research from Danny Bowman, Head of Campaigns at Parliament Street examines the accessibility of community mental health provision at the height of the pandemic (April 2020) and how the level of access to services […]
Earlier today, Parliament Street C.E.O. Patrick Sullivan spoke to UK regional news site Bdaily News about the U.K. government’s “Eat Out to Help Out” scheme. He told Bdaily News, “This is creative thinking from an ambitious Chancellor and I congratulate the government for this key policy that will help stimulate economic growth.” The Bdaily News article can be read here.
Parliament Street’s Director of Financial Services Tim Focas has written a new opinion piece published by City A.M. asking whether Boris Johnson’s government can avoid a post-Coronavirus return to austerity. Read the article here. Or alternatively you can read the text below:- There is still a widespread view that austerity at the start of the last decade was somehow a […]
Thursday 21st May 2020 The New Statesman has reported on new Parliament Street research revealing that 731 Zoom licences have been purchased by Whitehall bosses since the start of the Coronavirus crisis, with the Ministry of Defence driving most of the procurement. The New Statesman article can be read here.
Thursday 21st May 2020 The Daily Mirror reports today on new Parliament Street research which reveals that Civil Service chiefs have ordered a total of 731 Zoom licences since the COVID-19 outbreak began. 550 of these are for the Ministry of Defence. This is despite Whitehall bosses having been warned by the National Cyber Security Centre, part of intelligence agency […]
Our Head of Campaigns, Danny Bowman reflects on his personal experience of the second week of the lockdown and the subsequent impact on his mental health. He is writing a briefing note on this for each week of the lockdown.
Our new report examines the challenges facing UK businesses during the Covid-19 crisis.
