Recommendation 13

The Treasury told us that the proportion of major projects that have been evaluated has improved since the NAO’s evaluation report. After our evidence session, the Treasury wrote to us and stated that 68% of infrastructure and construction of major projects have a high-quality evaluation plan. Across all major projects, 63% have at least some form of evaluation plan – but only 34% were deemed high quality. This leaves 37% of all major projects with no evaluation plan.24 The Treasury told us that to address some of these issues, the Evaluation Task Force published an action plan to keep improving evaluation across the major projects portfolio.25