The British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey, out today, shows a majority of Labour voters support the benefits cap, but there are indications of support for higher spending on the groups hardest hit by the cuts after a long period of decline. Support for more spending on single parents, children and unemployed people, and on welfare in general, is at last on the increase. Professor Peter Taylor-Gooby analysed the data and wrote this year’s chapter on Welfare and Benefits.
Each year NatCen’s British Social Attitudes survey asks around 3,000 people what it’s like to live in Britain and what they think about how Britain is run. The survey is a critical gauge of public opinion, and is used by the Government, journalists, opinion formers and academics.
Read the report here.
Contributors to the latest BSA: Rachel Ormston, John Curtice, Geoffrey Evans, Lindsay Paterson, Eleanor Taylor, Peter Taylor-Gooby, John Appleby, Ruth Robertson, Ian Simpson and Miranda Phillips.