Peter Saunders personal website

February 2010:

Tuesday February 23:
In the House of Lords debate on the Child Poverty Bill, Opposition spokesperson, David Freud, cites my Policy Exchange paper in support of his proposed amendment. Read the debate in Hansard

Thursday February 4:
Debate: Should the state support marriage through the tax/benefit system? Sponsored by Policy Exchange. Other speakers were Stephen Brien (Centre for Social Justice), Andrew Haldenby (Reform) and Richard Reeves (DEMOS). For more details, click here

Wednesday February 3:
Why there should be a married couple's tax allowance. Published on politics.co.uk, the UK's leading political news website. Click here to read

November 2009:

Friday November 27:
Are the Government's Proposed Measures the Right Ones? Paper on the government's Child Poverty Bill presented at the Centre for Economic & Social Inclusion conference in Birmingham, 'Tackling child poverty in hard times'. Click here to download Powerpoint slides from the presentation.

October 2009:

Thursday October 29:
Poverty of Ambition, a critique of the Government's Child Poverty Bill and its statutory poverty targets, published by Policy Exchange. Download a copy here.

Tuesday October 27:
New novel, The Versailles Memorandum goes on sale. Go to website .

Saturday October 10:
'Visions of Hastings' runner-up prize awarded at Hastings Town Hall for short story, Enough Edge. The story will be published next year by Earlyworks Press in a collection edited by Kay Green. More information