British Social Attitudes Survey

For example, we found 12% church attendance as today.

In fact, Pew Research have found a figure that's higher than that, and the British Social Attitudes Survey's found a figure that's lower than that.

We're not overly surprised.

I think the other thing I'd say is I could point you to about eight or nine surveys.

And this kind of speaks to political challenge here.

The British Social Attitudes Survey, which Tom mentioned at the start there, um, shows that people do want to limit and control spending on welfare in general, but they're not keen on cutting spending for disabled people who are out of work at a high level.

And I think the lessons from this is, is not that kind of reducing spending on Social Security system is impossible, if that's what you want to do.

The lesson here is you need to be really specific about what you think the system is for, what you're trying to achieve for different people who are engaging and, and dependent on that system, and then from that, say what policies you're gonna introduce and why they will help you achieve those aims.

Because I don't think this is going to be cheap, um, to fix.

I, I do think there's a lot of people who are being p- placed in the same category as some.

I mean, to take it, you know, uh, Thomas, you mentioned quite a lot that British Social Attitudes survey, should money be given to the disabled people? Now, when you're asking somebody an opinion poll question like that, they're thinking of, you know, th- disabled can mean a lot of things now.

Mm-hmm.

this system is not working i think people do acknowledge that um and as as we've mentioned from our report we do think that actually insourcing the assessment process would be a way to get around some of the first incentives that might exist in the system i don't think it's going to like dramatically solve everything if you're going to combine the assessment process and do something that is more personalized and different i think it's an opportunity to think about how that's delivered so i would agree with that um on the point about the language and the way that's only six to the public think that the language used builds trust which is pretty Pretty kind of shocking stat there.

I think, well, I mean, if you look at the British Social Attitude Survey, people want to control benefit spending.

That's the kind of headline figure.

When you drill down, people don't want to see a cut for disability benefits.

Maybe potentially longer term, but I think we're still hearing mixed messages from this government.

And I would point to things such as the British Social Attitudes Survey suggesting that now people are much more skeptical of the r- level of taxation.

You look, there's a very good column in The Economist last week talking about tax enough already.

There are all different signs suggesting Britons are actually a, a little bit skeptical about how much they're paying right now.

And we ask people about their beliefs all the time.

So, for example, the British Social Attitudes Survey said, Asks people, obviously, about all sorts of beliefs that they have.

And sometimes it makes a distinction between people's kind of material reality, if you like, and what they believe.

So one question they've asked repeatedly is, what social class do you identify as? And that's obviously different from your material circumstances and the job that you do.

And I think that there is very little prospect that the church will be able to renew itself.

There was a study from British Social Attitude Survey, I think it came out in 2018, a little time ago now, and it studied the extent to which different denominations and different faiths were successfully replicating themselves.

And the retention figure for Islam was, I think, 93% or 94%.

So you're overwhelmingly likely to remain a Muslim if you're raised as a Muslim.