Working to make government more effective

Grant Dalton

Former Researcher

Grant was a researcher working across the Institute’s public finances and public bodies teams. He joined the Institute from the Department for International Trade, where he worked in private office as a briefings manager and a ministerial private secretary. 

Grant has a degree in history, and briefly worked in fundraising at a school. His work at the Institute has included analysing economic support policies during the Covid crisis in an international context, comparing provision of social care in the four nations of the UK and looking at reforms to public appointments and crisis response systems in public bodies. 

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14 DEC 2022 Insight paper

Subnational government in England

England’s usually messy patchwork of governing arrangements makes it an international outlier in its subnational government structures.

20 SEP 2022 Explainer

Chartered public bodies

A royal charter is a document issued by the monarch that gives independent legal standing to an organisation.

18 AUG 2022 Report

Reforming public appointments

How the new prime minister can make public appointments faster and fairer, by reforming an often chaotic public appointments process.