Politics

Produced for the Scottish Housing Regulator (SHR), this report highlights the current diversity in approaches taken across the sector and proposes minimum standards that all social landlords should achieve in order to obtain robust data on tenant satisfaction.

One week before the Budget, the full impact of the economic situation is hitting the public.

Half think their personal financial situation will get worse, two in three now think the recession will take more than three years to recover from.

Majority think the government is making the wrong decisions about where to cut spending and Conservative lead over Labour on best economic policies has fallen.

Despite increasing economic concern, Labour making no gains on voting intention.

The SNP meets for its spring party conference this weekend, just a few weeks before embarking on its campaign to win an unprecedented second term in government. Ipsos has produced a briefing pack which charts the party's polling performance and highlights the key issues that will dominate this year's Holyrood election campaign.

Will the referendum on changing our electoral system really be a damp squib? Our research suggests it might be.

With the Scottish Liberal Democrat Spring Party Conference kicking off in Perth this weekend, Ipsos has produced a briefing pack which charts the party's polling performance and highlights the key issues that will dominate this year's Holyrood election campaign.

Britons are among the most negative about the economy in the world according to the latest Economic Global Pulse from Ipsos' Global @advisor, online research conducted in 24 countries.

Our latest issues index shows that concern about unemployment is higher amongst the young.

The Reuters/ Ipsos Political Monitor shows that among those who are certain to vote, half support adopting the Alternative Vote system (49%) while a third are against (37%). The remaining 13% are not sure which way they would vote.

Support for cuts to public services falls as the impact of spending cuts begins to be felt.
There is widespread concern about the effects of cuts in the next 12 months as pessimism about the economy increases to levels of concern not seen since the start of 2009