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How is allocative efficiency (those activities that offer highest economic and social returns) in local government best promoted?

Background

Further building our evidence and understanding on which public services, delivered at which level of government, deliver greatest public value and what we can learn from different policy approaches taken across the UK.

Next steps

The lead contacts are: Lesley Smith, Senior Principal Research Officer, Analysis, Research and Co-ordination Unit, Analysis and Data Directorate: Lesley.Smith@levellingup.gov.uk and David Hughes, Head of the Chief Scientific Adviser’s office: psChiefScientificAdviser@levellingup.gov.uk.

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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

DLUHC Areas of research interest GOVUK

Related UKRI funded projects

  • De Montfort University And Association for Public Service Excellence

    To develop practical tools and guides to be able to offer specialist services to, and advocacy for, councils addressing the operational challenges of reduced public spending....

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project focuses on practical tools and guides for councils addressing operational challenges of reduced public spending, which is related to promoting allocative efficiency in local government.

  • Improving public funding allocations to reduce geographical inequalities

    The aim of this project is to examine how the UK Government can create an improved public funding allocation system in England to drive forward Levelling Up. This project will contribute to the Government's policy goal t...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project directly addresses the question by focusing on improving allocative efficiency in public funding allocation for Levelling Up in the UK.

  • What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth 2023-2025

    The What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth was set up in 2013. The overall aim of What Works Growth is to increase the cost-effectiveness of policies for local economic growth by improving the use of evidence and ev...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project is relevant as it aims to improve allocative efficiency in local government by enhancing the use of evidence and evaluation in policy design and delivery, which aligns with the question's focus.

  • Research Facilitator (for Local Government) - Catherine Staite

    Local government plays a substantial role in the wellbeing of economy and society in the United Kingdom. 433 local authorities in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales employ almost 1.7 million people delivering ...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project focuses on encouraging local authority engagement with academic research, which may not directly answer the question about promoting allocative efficiency in local government.

  • What Works Scotland Centre

    What Works Scotland will be a collaborative centre bringing together staff from the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, other academics and key non-academic partners. Its aim is to support the use of evidence to plan ...

    Funded by: ESRC

  • Accountability, Efficiency, Improvement and Change in UK Local Public Services: The Role of Benchmarking and External Performance Assessment

    The knowledge exchange will facilitate the development of a network of policy makers and practitioners who will work with social science researchers to analyse and respond to the challenges of performance assessment in p...

    Funded by: ESRC

  • Wales Centre for Public Policy

    As a small country with relatively young devolved institutions, Wales needs greater policy capacity. The Wales Centre for Public Policy will help to provide this. It will host the Public Policy Institute for Wales (PPIW)...

    Funded by: ESRC

  • Local Acc Fund 21 - Realising North East Ambition (ReNEA)- Evidence driven insights for policy design

    Award holders will in close collaboration with research organisations and local stakeholders e.g., public sector, public policy organisations, businesses, local innovators and the third sector: a) Identify / diagnose l...

    Funded by: ESRC

  • Responding to complex public contracting failures: alternative models for coordinating and stewarding public service delivery

    Public-private partnerships and contracted delivery arrangements for public services are ubiquitous across developed economies and yet their performance and value are increasingly questioned. High-profile failures, ineff...

    Funded by: UKRI FLF

    Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

  • Participatory Policy Learning and New Municipalism

    I will extend my PhD research on evaluation to open up a new agenda in the field of public policy. The core principle of evaluation is that evidence should be used to identify the impact of an intervention and inform fut...

    Funded by: ESRC

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