Select Committee on Intergenerational Fairness and Provision
Tackling intergenerational unfairness
Report of Session 2017-19 - published 25 April 2019 - HL Paper 329
Contents
Intergenerational fairness and provision
Looking forward and taking a lifecourse approach
The Committee’s work and acknowledgements
Chapter 2: Accounting for the future
Improving governmental processes
Data on intergenerational fairness
Chapter 3: The housing challenge
Figure 1: Proportion of income spent on housing costs by generations: GB
Figure 2: Generational home ownership rates by age: UK
Figure 3: Trends in tenure (proportions), 1980 to 2017–18
Intergenerational transfers and financial products
Development of public sector land
Box 1: Proposed reform of public land development
The capacity of local authorities to deal with planning issues
Chapter 4: Educating generations for the 100-year life
Box 2: Changes in apprenticeship policy since 2015
Chapter 5: Working in the 100-year life
Box 3: Common job market terms
Flexible working and mid-life career reviews
Figure 5: Age 65+ UK Employment Rate, 1992–2018
Box 4: EHRC definition of ageism
Chapter 6: All-age communities as drivers of intergenerational fairness
The negative social consequences of age segregation
Figure 6: Reported frequency of loneliness by tenure (proportion)
Box 5: Innovative ways community run activities are tackling intergenerational divides
Facilitating community activity
Chapter 7: Intergenerational taxation
Distribution of income and wealth
Figure 7: Average net effect of the tax and spending by age of household representative
Figure 8: Total direct and indirect taxation by age of household representative
Table 2: Median total household wealth by household type 2014 to 2016
Summary of conclusions and recommendations
Appendix 1: List of Members and declarations of interest
Appendix 4: Note of Committee visit to Doncaster: 14 November 2018
Appendix 5: Contact Group for the Inquiry
Appendix 6: Acronyms and abbreviations
Evidence is published online at www.parliament.uk/intergenerational-fairness/publications and available for inspection at the Parliamentary Archives (020 7219 3074).
Q in footnotes refers to a question in oral evidence.