The health case for Basic Income focuses on its role in mitigating upstream social determinants. This results in a whole of government approach to addressing our crises, in which the Treasury is absolutely key to relieving pressure on our health services. This overlaps with broader work with the Common Sense Policy Group, including its forthcoming book, Basic Income: The Policy That Changes Everything.

Basic Income Plus is a means of transitioning from conditional benefits, like Universal Credit, to a universal system like Basic Income while ensuring that disabled people and other people with additional needs do not lose out financially relative to the rest of the population. This would be achieved through additional elements on top of the Basic Income everyone receives. This work is in collaboration with Citizen Network and the Common Sense Policy Group.

We are examining the role of a Basic Income in addressing rural economies that are past the point of broken and in which levels of poverty and exposure to some of the worst excesses of inequality are stark. We are working in equal partnership with Basic Income for Farmers on an initial report examining public opinion and economic implications.

We will work with trade unions and other workers’ organisations to establish a pathway to their adopting a formal position on Basic Income. This will be both in the specific context of climate change-related job insecurity, but also more broadly as a means of protecting workers. This work is being undertaken in partnership with UBI Lab Network.

Building on our underpinning research, we are working toward pioneering Basic Income pilots and trials to set out clear pathways to funding, evaluation and adoption. This work is in partnership with Big Local Jarrow, Grange Big Local and UBI Lab Manchester.