How can we keep the lights on at the lowest cost to the taxpayer?

Central 4 Manchester City Centre, Manchester

With key speakers: Andrea Leadsom MP, Minister for Energy and Climate Change Rhian Kelly, Business Environment Director, CBI Professor Jim Watson, Research Director, UK Energy Research Centre Claire Duffy, General Manager, ESB Kindly supported by:

City Devolution: Unleashing the core cities and rebalancing the UK economy

Central 4 Manchester City Centre, Manchester

With key speakers: James Wharton MP, Minister for the Northern Powerhouse (invited) Sir Richard Leese, Leader, Manchester City Council Phillip Blond, Director, ResPublica Andrew Carter, CEO, Centre for Cities Bob Blackman MP, Communities and Local Government Select Committee Kindly supported by:

Teaching is a profession not a job

Central 6 Central 6, Manchester Central, Windmill Street, Manchester

With key speakers: Nick Gibb MP, Minister for Schools Patrick Roach, Deputy Director General, NASUWT Neil Carmichael MP, Chair, Education Select Committee

Make or Break: Why Britain needs a manufacturing resurgence and how we can help it to take place

Committee Room 2, The House of Lords Bridge Street, London

Speakers  Caroline Flint MP Anna Turley MP Seema Malhotra MP Lord Bilimoria of Chelsea Chaired by: Phillip Blond, Director, ResPublica The recent collapse of the British steel industry has demonstrated the problems of an economy reliant on services and external financing. As UK manufacturing’s competitiveness has declined – partly due to a strengthening pound – regional […]

Ticket to Ride: How high speed rail for Liverpool can help realise the Northern Powerhouse

Committee Room 12, Houses of Parliament Committee Room 12, Houses of Parliament, Westminster, London

The Liverpool City Region, with its world-class port and logistics facilities, growing business community, and cultural vibrancy, has the potential to drive economic growth at a local, regional and national level. Yet without proper infrastructure links to the rest of the country, these assets could well be squandered. This panel event, coinciding with ResPublica's latest report launch, […]

The NHS and Social Care: Reducing bed-blocking and financial pressures

Committee Room 19 Houses of Parliament, United Kingdom

Care Minister Rt Hon. Alistair Burt MP joins Barbara Keeley MP, Shadow Minister for Older People, Social Care and Carers, to debate the future of health and social care, touching upon topical issues about funding and bed-blocking.   The NHS, and hospitals in particular, are under increasing strain in terms of both funding and capacity. There […]

Skills for Infrastructure: How can future demand be met to fuel prosperity?

Committe Room 8 Houses of Parliament, United Kingdom

Skills Minister Nick Boles joined Sir Terry Morgan, Chairman of Crossrail, and Andy Mitchell, Chief Executive of the Thames Tideway Tunnel, to debate how our construction skills needs can be met. The construction industry is one of the UK’s fastest growing and is a key driver of productivity and the country’s economic health – construction […]