Business and Economy

AECOM, with Avison Young and Maccreanor Lavington undertook a comprehensive review and update of the London industrial land supply baseline for the GLA. It builds on the London Industrial Land Supply Study 2015 and also gives an overview of businesses/employment in industrial activities and the industrial property market. The Executive Summary of the new study report is available within the Economy...

The GLA has conducted an analysis of the metrics accompanying the DLUHC White Paper on Levelling Up. Levelling up will not be achieved by levelling down because London has deep economic links with the rest of the UK. There should be separate missions and metrics on improving productivity and tackling disadvantage. This would allow a clearer focus on poverty alleviation. Strategy and policy development,...

This work looks at the spiralling cost of living and the challenges facing Londoners including the rising poverty levels in the capital. The latest update is dated August 2022. The report and public attitudes and behaviour charts (published 1 February 2022) were republished (7 April 2022) to correct a calculation error. This error was due to manual calculation.

The Skills for Londoners Board – London’s Skills Advisory Panel - has published a refresh of its first Local Skills Report. The report presents an overview of London’s skills landscape in light of the impact of Covid-19, and sets out our progress with our main skills programmes as well as the work now underway as part of London Recovery Board’s...

These reports present assessments of the available evidence concerning population change in London since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The main document (May 2021) is accompanied by a short summary report and an annex that provides an overview of the data sources considered. In February 2022 a report was released which integrated new evidence that had become available since the original analysis.

This work sets out the background to the Tax Increment Financing (TIF) model, and describes some case studies in which TIFs have been used, both here in the UK, and in the US.

In January 2022 the Mayor published his Skills Roadmap for London. The Roadmap sets the direction of travel for adult education in London over the Mayoral term and beyond, including future plans for the approximately £320 million per year Adult Education Budget (AEB). The Roadmap was developed based on extensive consultation with stakeholders, communities and businesses. The GLA engaged over 100 organisations...

The GLA commissioned independent research into the green skills which are expected to grow in demand as London moves to net zero. It uses GLA Economics’ Identifying Green Occupations to identify green skills currently being funded through the Adult Education Budget (AEB), along with relevant Level 4 and 5 qualifications and apprenticeship data. The report includes interviews with...

This note sets out GLA Economics’ illustrative estimate of the incidence on London households of the planned introduction of the Health and Social Care Levy from 2023/24 (preceded by an interim increase in national insurance contributions (NICs) in 2022/23).

Quantitative research with London's SMEs undertaken by the GLA's Opinion Research team. Online survey carried out by YouGov for the GLA between 5th–19th March 2021, with a response of 1,012 London businesses (owners or senior decision makers only). Sample weighted to be representative of all London businesses by size and sector, based on October 2020 Business population estimates data. Main...