Recommendation 16

Additional funding is an incentive used to encourage cross-government working, with the Shared Outcomes Fund being the most recent initiative.30 It was set up in 2019 by HM Treasury to fund pilot projects that test innovative ways of working across the public sector, with an emphasis on thorough plans for evaluation.31 Total funding made available through the scheme was £600 million, and HM Treasury claimed over 60 projects have now received this support. It told us the idea of the Shared Outcomes Fund is to test and scale up pilot projects where evaluation has shown they work.32