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The ESRC, on behalf of UKRI, will invest up to £32.4 million (at 100% fEC) over five years, in an independent, world-class Productivity Institute. The Institute will bring together world-leading experts from a range of disciplines and backgrounds and will work directly with relevant stakeholders, for example policymakers and businesses, enhancing the state of knowledge in the field and to inform those working to improve regional, sectoral and firm-level productivity in the UK.

The UK urgently needs to address growing concern around the environmental impact of plastics in packaging. While industry has committed to this challenge through the UK Plastic Pact and other initiatives, there is a need to catalyse and coordinate activity across the supply and knowledge chains.

Around the world, arrangements for the care of people who need help to manage daily life are evolving.