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SUMMARY:Shoplifting\, Violence and Abuse: Confronting the Crime Epidemic Faced by Retailers and Shop-Workers
URL:https://policyexchange.org.uk/labour-party-conference-2023/
DESCRIPTION:The ‘property’ crime wave engulfing our high streets has vaulted up the national policy agenda - and rightly so. The latest crime stats show that police recorded ‘property’ crime increased substantially compared to last year – with ‘theft person’ up 28%\, shoplifting up 24% and robbery up 13%.\n \nOften these offences are perpetrated by individuals linked to Organised Crime Groups who are profiting from this crime wave. The economic impact of these crimes is considerable. Costs are transferred to the poorest customers through higher prices. Rising insurance premiums become unsustainable. Staff become too scared to go to work and chose to seek employment elsewhere.\n \nYet many believe that these crimes are too often not taken seriously by the police or wider criminal justice system\, leading to assertions that these crimes becoming almost ‘decriminalised’ in some areas. \n \nPolicy Exchange has\, over many years been at the forefront of raising the profile of these types of offending. In March 2015 David Lammy MP authored a Policy Exchange report\, Taking its Toll: the regressive impact of property crime in Britain and in September of that year he wrote the follow-up paper Low Crime for All. More recently in September 2022 Policy Exchange published Policing Can Win\, which raised how police forces should prioritise offending which has a significant impact on local communities. \n\nSpeakers\n•	Alex Norris MP\, Shadow Minister for Policing \n•	Rt Hon Hazel Blears\, former Policing Minister\n•	Paul Gerrard\, Director of Campaigns and Public Affairs\, Co-Op\n•	Paddy Lillis\, General Secretary\, Union of Shop\, Distributive and Allied Workers (USDAW)\n•	Paul Richards\, Labour and Co-Operative Candidate for Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner \n•	David Spencer\, Head of Crime and Justice\, Policy Exchange	(Chair)\n\nLineup is subject to change. For the most up-to-date panel\, please follow the link.
LOCATION:Meeting Room 17\, ACC Liverpool
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SUMMARY:Delivering Defence: A New Strategy for the British Defence Industrial System
URL:https://policyexchange.org.uk/labour-party-conference-2023/
DESCRIPTION:Over the past two years\, the British Armed Forces have played a crucial role in the execution of British strategy\, providing sustainment\, equipment\, training\, and support to Ukraine in its defence against Russia. However\, it is clear that the UK’s historical defence industrial system is in need of a reset\, if not a wholesale modification. This event will investigate the role of new technologies in modern military power\, while also identifying the crucial relevance of industrial production. In particular\, the panel will query how the U.K. might expand its defence infrastructure\, both by working with traditional partners and by linking defence to a broader national security led industrial policy.\n\nSpeakers\n•	Luke Pollard MP\, Shadow Defence Minister\n•	Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent\, Shadow Spokesperson for Environment\, Food and Rural Affairs\n•	Steve Turner\, Assistant General Secretary\, Unite the Union\n•	Air Marshal Edward Stringer (Ret’d) CB\, CBE\, Senior Fellow\, Policy Exchange  (Chair)	\n\nLineup is subject to change. For the most up-to-date panel\, please follow the link.
LOCATION:Meeting Room 17\, ACC Liverpool
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231009T150000
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SUMMARY:Wes Streeting MP: In Conversation with Andrew Marr
URL:https://policyexchange.org.uk/labour-party-conference-2023/
DESCRIPTION:Labour recently launched its mission to “build an NHS fit for the future”\, promising the delivery of more care in the community\, a focus on prevention and the largest workforce expansion in NHS history. So how would a Labour government seek to realise these ambitions? Policy Exchange is pleased to host Wes Streeting MP in conversation with Andrew Marr.\n\nSpeakers\nWes Streeting MP\, Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care\nAndrew Marr\, Journalist and Broadcaster\, LBC\n\nLineup is subject to change. For the most up-to-date panel\, please follow the link.
LOCATION:Meeting Room 17\, ACC Liverpool
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DESCRIPTION:Wes Streeting MP: In Conversation with Andrew Marr
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231009T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231009T173000
SUMMARY:Labour’s Plan to get Britain Building Again
URL:https://policyexchange.org.uk/labour-party-conference-2023/
DESCRIPTION:The housing crisis is one of the most acute public policy challenges facing the United Kingdom. In recent months\, the Labour Party has sought to draw dividing lines on the subject with the Government\, and to set out its plan for delivering the new housing supply that the country desperately needs. This panel will consider the specific measures a Labour Government would adopt to expand the UK housing stock.\n\nEach panellist will have the chance to put forward the key interventions that they would like to see\, after which there will be an opportunity to debate the various proposals and to engage with audience questions.\nSome of the themes that might come up include:\n•	Planning and Regulatory Reform: how can we develop a planning system that offers more certainty to developers\, balances interests more proportionately\, and delivers high quality housing in the places where it is needed? Should Labour reform the green belt? Should binding housing targets be reintroduced?\n•	Development Corporations and New Towns: Labour has said that new towns will be the “building blocks” of its plan to deliver new homes and economic growth. How will they work? And will Labour reform the legislation on Compulsory Purchase Orders to achieve this?\n•	Support for SMEs: Aside from the initiatives that will support the entire sector\, how can Government specifically help smaller housebuilders\, who face specific challenges when it comes to accessing finance and labour with the requisite skills?\n•	Social Housing: could a new generation of social housing offer affordable dwellings and badly needed counter-cyclical investment? How can Government support the construction of these new homes?\n•	Devolved Authorities: can the Combined Authority model potentially provide a flexible and effective framework for the delivery of new housing? What is the significance of the new trailblazer deals struck in Manchester and the West Midlands?\n\nSpeakers\n•	Brian Berry\, Chief Executive\, Federation of Master Builders (FMB)\n•	Anya Martin\, Co-Director\, PricedOut\n•	Dan Norris\, Metro Mayor for West of England\n•	Sandi Rhys Jones OBE\, FCIOB\, President\, the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB)\n•	Dr James Vitali\, Head of Political Economy\, Policy Exchange	(Chair)\n\nLineup is subject to change. For the most up-to-date panel\, please follow the link.
LOCATION:Meeting Room 17\, ACC Liverpool
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231010T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231010T103000
SUMMARY:Labour's Plan for Growth and Prosperity
URL:https://policyexchange.org.uk/labour-party-conference-2023/
DESCRIPTION:Labour has stated that it will fight the next election on economic growth\, and it has pledged to secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 elected. This is an ambitious commitment\; how would a Labour Government go about achieving it? This panel will explore Labour’s partnership model for delivering economic growth and its implications for UK Plc. The event has the potential to cover a variety of themes\, including:\n•	Supporting Investment: The UK has a chronic problem with low investment. How would Labour go about addressing this? How will the proposed National Wealth Fund support businesses and industry grow across the UK? How will British taxpayers benefit?\n•	Financial Services: The UK’s financial service sector is one of economy’s greatest strengths. How would the Labour Party build on the recent Edinburgh reforms and get insurance investments and pension wealth working more productively? \n•	Skills: How would Labour seek to upskill the UK workforce? Would it continue / expand / improve schemes like Help to Grow? What specific support would it provide for medium-sized firms\, who have particular challenges in terms of upscaling? \n•	(Regional) inequality: How does the question of inequality fit into Labour’s growth agenda? And how will efforts to alleviate inequality aid\, rather than hinder\, growth? What\, moreover\, would the future of the levelling up agenda be under a Labour Government? \n•	Regulation: Small businesses in particular worry about the burdens of regulatory compliance. How would a Labour Government seek to make life easier for the UKs SME sector? What about planning reform?\n\nSpeakers\n•	Tulip Siddiq MP\, Shadow Economic Secretary to the Treasury\n•	Sonia Brown\, Vice President of Government Engagement and Regulatory Policy\, Visa Europe\n•	Kitty Ussher\, Chief Economist\, Institute of Directors\n•	Lord Wood of Anfield\, former Shadow Minister without Portfolio\n•	Dr James Vitali\, Head of Political Economy\, Policy Exchange 	(Chair)\n\nLineup is subject to change. For the most up-to-date panel\, please follow the link.
LOCATION:Meeting Room 17\, ACC Liverpool
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231010T110000
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SUMMARY:Data Drop: How the Quality\, Presentation and Use of Data Can Influence Policy Outcomes
URL:https://policyexchange.org.uk/labour-party-conference-2023/
DESCRIPTION:This event will cover how Government policy can be affected by the data available to it\, and how implementation of policy can be influenced by how that data is presented to policy makers. With more data available than ever before\, small choices can make tremendous differences into how a situation is perceived – and therefore what decisions are ultimately made. Equally\, good data can unlock previously unavailable solutions\, underpin effective delivery and allow public resources to be targeted to where they are best needed.\n\nThe event is likely to cover a variety of themes\, including:\n\n•	Where effective use of data has underpinned some of the most effective areas of government delivery\, including the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.\n•	Where the lack\, or poor use\, of data has contributed to government failures\, mistakes or cost overruns.\n•	How the private and public sector can work effectively together to mobilise data\, expertise and technology to drive a revolution in public service delivery and policy implementation.\n•	What are the barriers to effective use of data? Do what extent do talent\, awareness\, willingness\, technological limitations or privacy concerns act as the principal bottle-necks to effectiveness?\n\nSpeakers\n•	Chi Onwurah MP\, Shadow Secretary of State for Science\, Research & Digital\n•	Dr Catherine Cutts\, former Chief Data Scientist\, 10 Downing Street\n•	Richard Lum\, Partner\, Newton Europe\n•	Paddy McGuinness CMG\, OBE\, Senior Adviser\, Brunswick Group\n•	Iain Mansfield\, Director of Research\, Policy Exchange\n\nLineup is subject to change. For the most up-to-date panel\, please follow the link.
LOCATION:Meeting Room 17\, ACC Liverpool
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231010T121500
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SUMMARY:Will Keir Starmer really govern from the centre?
URL:https://policyexchange.org.uk/labour-party-conference-2023/
DESCRIPTION:After winning the Labour leadership\, Keir Starmer has tilted to the centre on both economic and social policy. Whether it is pledging to remain outside the Single Market\, saying that parents should be informed if their children wish to change gender or pledging to be tough on crime and illegal migrants\, he has worked hard to move the Labour party firmly towards the centre of public opinion.\n\nWill this last? Such positioning may be good electoral tactics but puts Starmer at odds with the majority of Labour party members and activists – as well as a significant section of the Parliamentary Party. If Labour does\, as the polls suggest\, win the next election\, how long can this apparent consensus last?\n\nThe event is likely to cover a variety of themes\, including:\n\n•	How far does Labour’s current stance genuinely reflect Starmer’s own beliefs – or those of his top team?\n•	Is Labour more likely to govern from the centre if it wins a small majority or a large one?\n•	To what extent will the overall situation of the country – in particular the challenging economic environment – constrain Starmer’s post-election room for manoeuvre?\n•	If Labour does pivot back to the left\, in what areas is this most likely to occur – and why?\n \nSpeakers\n•	Lord Glasman\, Political Theorist and Director\, Common Good Foundation\n•	Rt Hon Jim Murphy\, Managing Director\, Arden Strategies\; former Leader of the Scottish Labour Party\n•	John Rentoul\, Chief Political Commentator\, the Independent\n•	Rt Hon Ruth Kelly\, former Secretary of State	(Chair)\n\nLineup is subject to change. For the most up-to-date panel\, please follow the link.
LOCATION:Meeting Room 17\, ACC Liverpool
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231010T161500
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SUMMARY:Apprenticeship Reform: How to Create an Effective Apprenticeship and Skills Levy?
URL:https://policyexchange.org.uk/labour-party-conference-2023/
DESCRIPTION:Apprenticeships can transform lives – but while the Apprenticeship Levy has many strengths\, the system is not currently delivering the number of high quality apprenticeships that our country needs – with young people\, those from disadvantaged backgrounds and SMEs being hit the hardest. Businesses say it does not have the flexibility to allow them to train the skills they need – and young people\, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds\, are increasingly being shut out of the system. \n\nLabour’s commitment to establish a Growth and Skills Levy offers the opportunity to revitalise employer-based training and create opportunity across the country. This event will discuss how it can be designed most effectively\, to support learners\, employers and the country as a whole.\n\nThe event is likely to cover a variety of themes\, including:\n•	What type of training should be fundable under the Growth and Skills levy – and how can we ensure it leads to additional training\, rather than simply funding existing provision.\n•	How can we ensure that apprenticeships are available in sufficient supply to school leavers\, making them a genuine alternative to traditional routes?\n•	How can we build an environment that enables SMEs to be more confident about offering apprenticeships – and provide them with the support they need for their apprentices to be successful?\n•	What other reforms are needed to maximise the potential of apprentices?\n\nSpeakers\n•	Steve Rotheram\, Metro Mayor for Liverpool City Region\n•	Rt Hon Lord Blunkett\, former Secretary of State for Education and Employment\n•	Matt Brailsford\, Head of Project Construction & Development\, Custom Solar\n•	Paul Gerrard\, Director of Campaigns and Public Affairs\, Co-op\n•	Corrienne Peasgood OBE\, President\, Association of Colleges\n•	David Goodhart\, Head of Demography\, Immigration and Integration\, Policy Exchange (Chair)	\n\nLineup is subject to change. For the most up-to-date panel\, please follow the link.
LOCATION:Meeting Room 17\, ACC Liverpool
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231010T174500
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SUMMARY:Maths and Empowerment: Is Maths Excellence the Key to Social Mobility?
URL:https://policyexchange.org.uk/labour-party-conference-2023/
DESCRIPTION:Mathematics is fundamental to the success of individuals and the nation\, with benefits arising from improvements across the ability spectrum – from imparting basic numeracy\, to enabling the gifted to excel. \n\nWe know that too many individuals are held back from achieving their potential due to poor maths teaching. Disadvantaged pupils are twice as likely to fail GCSE maths as their wealthier classmates – and many others are held back from life-changing opportunities in apprenticeships because of arbitrary requirements to pass a certain level of mathematics – without appropriate teaching routes in place. \nThe event will focus on how we can better deliver Maths Excellence between the ages of 11 to 18\, considering topics including the role of pedagogy\, qualified teachers and how schools\, colleges\, employers and charities can work together most effectively. It is likely to cover a variety of themes\, including:\n•	What are the secrets to successful maths teaching – and how can these be rolled out more widely?\n•	How to design a maths curriculum that both caters for those at risk of innumeracy and stimulates and develops our very best mathematicians?\n•	What are the systemic challenges? In particular\, how do we overcome the lack of maths teachers – given that mathematicians will always be able to command much higher salaries elsewhere?\nSpeakers\n•	Rt Hon Lord Knight of Weymouth\, former Minister of State for Schools and Chair of the Council of British International Schools\n•	Tom Chivers\, Science Writer\, Semafor \n•	Daisy Christodoulou\, Director of Education\, No More Marking\n•	David Thomas\, Chief Executive Officer\, Maths Education for Social Mobility and Excellence\n•	Iain Mansfield\, Director of Research\, Policy Exchange	(Chair)\n\nLineup is subject to change. For the most up-to-date panel\, please follow the link.
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