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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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31 JAN 2022 Analysis paper

Whitehall Monitor 2022

Major reform is needed for government to respond to crises like the pandemic while simultaneously delivering long-term policy goals.  

25 JAN 2022 Explainer

Public bodies reform

The Declaration on Government Reform published in June 2021 committed the government to “commence a review programme for Arm’s Length Bodies".

25 JAN 2022 Explainer

Public bodies

Public bodies deliver a public or government service, though not as a ministerial department.

20 APR 2021 Report

Devolved public services

Since their creation in 1999, the devolved governments have chosen to fund and run public services in very different ways.

21 JAN 2021 Analysis paper

Whitehall Monitor 2021

Whitehall Monitor 2021 reveals the way the pandemic has changed how the government takes decisions, spends money and makes policy.