Source · Select Committees · Public Accounts Committee
Recommendation 27
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Inconsistent monitoring and evaluation evident across Department's industry support programmes.
Conclusion
We asked the Department about gaps in its monitoring and evaluation of support programmes.54 Of the Department’s Business Group’s 32 initiatives to support sectors, it provided monitoring and evaluation evidence for just 11.55 The Department told us there is a value for money judgement regarding where it focuses its monitoring and evaluation efforts. However, it recognised that its approach had been inconsistent, and noted that a step-change was required in quality and consistency of evaluation. The Department told us that going forward, it wanted to embed evaluation from the very start of an intervention.56