Pension Decumulation and Decision-making
Qualitative findings from interviews with 53–67‑year‑olds exploring how people understand, approach and make pension decumulation decisions, and the factors shaping their choices.
Government research
Evaluations, survey work, qualitative studies and impact assessments commissioned by UK government departments — separated out from the news, and attributed to the agency that carried out the work.
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Young people and work: interim report
Independent review examines the rise in young people not in education, employment or training (NEET), setting out interim findings on causes, risk factors and potential policy responses to reverse the increase ahead of a final report.
WorkWell Pilots Evaluation Early Implementation Findings
Early evaluation presents emerging findings from the WorkWell pilots, covering implementation across 15 programmes between October 2024 and March 2025 and initial indications of participant engagement, delivery challenges and early outcomes.
Survey of Employees and Self-Employed Workers, 2024 to 2025
Survey explores how employees and self-employed workers manage health and wellbeing at work during 2024–25, covering workplace practices, support access and impacts on ability to work.
Access to Work research review
Updated evidence review of Access to Work, synthesising research on the programme that helps disabled people to obtain and retain employment and identifying gaps in the current evidence base.
Evaluation of the Electoral Integrity Programme: EU voting and candidacy rights report
Findings from the evaluation of the European Union voting and candidacy rights policy (part of the Electoral Integrity Programme) set out how EU voting and candidacy arrangements were implemented and their impacts.
Agents, Small and Mid-Sized Businesses Customer Survey 2025
The 2025 Agents, Small and Mid‑Sized Businesses Customer Survey reports HMRC's main findings on agents' and SMEs' experiences of tax services, compliance processes and departmental engagement.
The Large Business Customer Survey 2025
Presents findings from the 2025 survey of large businesses on experiences with HMRC, covering tax administration, perceptions of policy implementation and broader factors shaping large firms’ attitudes towards tax compliance and engagement.
Working lives of teachers and leaders wave 4: qualitative report
Follow-up qualitative study reports on the working lives of teachers and school leaders, focusing on reasons leavers and those considering leaving the English state school sector give for their decisions and experiences.
Research at Skills England
Describes Skills England’s ongoing research priorities, the surveys it runs and datasets available to stakeholders, setting out topics of interest for skills policy and evaluation work.
Debt Management Composition and Perceptions Research
Survey data and qualitative interviews report on people who owe DWP benefit overpayments, exploring their debt composition, management strategies and perceptions of repayment arrangements.
Qualitative research with disadvantaged groups on Universal Credit covering: care experience, ex-offenders, homelessness and substance dependency
Presents qualitative insights from Universal Credit claimants with care experience, criminal convictions, homelessness or substance dependency, focusing on lived experience, claim challenges and service interactions that shape access and outcomes on UC.
Working lives of teachers and leaders: wave 4
Findings from wave 4 of the Working Lives of Teachers and Leaders survey, reporting on teachers’ and school leaders’ workloads, pay, retention intentions and wellbeing to inform education workforce policy.
Service Modernisation Customer Experience Survey
Survey analysis of customer experiences as Department for Work and Pensions services are modernised, tracking how perceptions and interactions change and identifying user-reported barriers and benefits from digital and service redesign.
Evaluation of the National Digital Support Service
Evaluation of the National Digital Support Service explores how the NDSS worked for users receiving support and for delivery partners, assessing accessibility, service delivery, outcomes and areas for improvement in digital assistance.
Age Assurance Data Access Study
Explores data access barriers affecting age-assurance tools’ performance, diagnosing technical and governance issues and proposing potential solutions to improve effectiveness and reliability of online age checks.
Electronic invoicing: SME usage and attitudes
Reports on SMEs’ awareness, use and attitudes towards electronic invoicing, mapping adoption levels, perceived benefits and barriers among small and medium enterprises to inform policy on digitalisation of invoicing.
Product safety and industry: Wave 3
Independent research exploring industry perspectives on product safety, likely covering business practices, regulatory compliance and barriers to improving safety standards across sectors.
Understanding mixed tenure in English social housing
Behavioural study examining challenges decarbonising mixed‑tenure social housing in England, focusing on tenant‑landlord dynamics, consent, funding and coordination barriers that complicate retrofits across tenures.
AI Adoption Research
Analyses how UK businesses adopt AI, the barriers they face and the sectoral impacts of AI deployment to inform policy on adoption, regulation and support for firms.
Working lives of teachers and leaders: wave 3
Wave 3 presents survey findings on teachers’ and school leaders’ working lives, covering workload, retention intentions, wellbeing and recruitment pressures across primary and secondary phases, based on a nationally collected teacher and leader sample.
Housing related support review
A research study examines the level and type of support provided across the Supported Housing sector, assessing whether current provision meets local support needs and identifying gaps in services and commissioning approaches.
Housing Infrastructure Fund: Process Evaluation Phase One
Phase one process evaluation of the Housing Infrastructure Fund – Forward Funding strand presents early evidence on implementation, decision-making, stakeholder engagement and delivery issues, following an earlier April 2021 scoping report by IFF Research.
Employee Health, Work, and Sickness Absence: Qualitative Research
Qualitative research exploring employees' experiences of sickness absence and managing health and wellbeing at work, covering reasons for absence, workplace support and barriers to returning or staying in work.
Systems-wide evaluation of homelessness and rough sleeping
A systems-wide evaluation investigates cross-sector drivers of homelessness and rough sleeping to identify where interventions can have greatest impact and improve strategic alignment across health, housing, justice and social services.
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill 2025: impact assessments
Impact assessments accompanying the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill 2025 set out the expected effects of the government’s proposed measures introduced to the Commons on 30 January 2025, assessing costs, benefits and implementation implications.
Evaluation of Ofsted’s renewed approach to education inspection: terms of reference
Ofsted has commissioned independent multi‑stage research to evaluate its renewed approach to education inspection, with terms of reference setting out objectives, stages and evidence to assess inspection effectiveness and impacts on schools.
Attitudes to product safety among small businesses
Independent research surveying small businesses explores their attitudes towards product safety, including awareness of regulations, perceived burdens, and compliance behaviours affecting obligations under product safety regimes.
Peer Mentoring Evaluation: A report on final research findings
Final evaluation of DWP’s Peer Mentoring test for people with substance dependency, reporting on outcomes from the intervention and its effectiveness in supporting employment and recovery pathways.
Survey of disadvantaged groups on Universal Credit covering: care experience, ex-offenders, homelessness and substance dependency
Presents findings from a survey of four disadvantaged groups on Universal Credit—care-experienced people, ex‑offenders, people experiencing homelessness and those with substance dependency—detailing barriers they face when accessing the labour market.