Recommendation 20

The Head of the Evaluation Task Force told us it is working to encourage departments to share learning.40 She also told us about the ‘evaluation registry’ which holds information on what evaluation government has already done in the sector and what departments are planning for the future.41 The Head of the Evaluation Task Force is hopeful that the transparency provided by the registry will help drive healthy competition between departments to achieve their best.42 We challenged the Head of the Evaluation Task Force on whether those delivering programmes know about the registry. The Head of the Evaluation Task Force said that it was currently rolling the registry out across departments and that it will become mandatory from next year. The Task Force aims to ensure that evaluations are planned, plans are put on the registry and when the evaluation is complete departments put the final report on the registry, which should be viewable by members of the public in March 2024.43