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What is driving the rise in housing benefit spending, and if it is the absence of housing, how do we build more?
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How do we improve the skillset of those who are unemployed when the shortage of skills is the clearest barrier to employment?
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How do we take the health and education reforms of the last Labour government to a new level, given the huge improvement in results they brought about?
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What is the right balance between universal and means-tested help for pensioners?
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How do we use technology to cut costs and drive change in our education, health, crime and immigration systems?
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How do we focus on the really hard core of socially excluded families, separating them from those who are just temporarily down on their luck?
- What could the developments around DNA do to cut crime?
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