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.
Provides statistical commentaries on school inspections for 2025–26, summarising inspection outcomes, trends in graded judgments and notable patterns in standards, safeguarding and curriculum across inspected schools.
Interim findings from an independent evaluation summarise early evidence on how Ofsted’s renewed education and initial teacher education inspection frameworks are being implemented and experienced by providers.
Evaluation of BDUK's Hub intervention examines its effectiveness in connecting schools to gigabit broadband, assessing connectivity outcomes and the programme's impact on school internet infrastructure.
Explores illegal working among gig economy workers and business owners’ attitudes to compliance in sectors vulnerable to illegal working, presenting worker and employer perspectives on prevalence, motivations and enforcement challenges.
Presents results from the DWP’s 2025–26 customer experience survey covering benefit claimants’ satisfaction and service experience with DWP between April 2025 and March 2026.
Summarises the DWP’s 2025–26 customer experience survey for Child Maintenance Service users, reporting on ease of use, satisfaction and service experience between April 2025 and March 2026.
Research quantifies the financial and time costs businesses incur to comply with regulations enforced by the Office for Product Safety and Standards, aiming to measure compliance burdens on firms.
Survey report presenting employers’ views on hiring young people, produced for an independent review into rising NEET rates and examining recruitment barriers and employer engagement with young workers.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mixed-methods evaluation examines extra Jobcentre Plus support delivered by Additional Work Coaches for disabled people and those with health conditions, reporting findings on customer experience and the support’s impacts on employment outcomes.
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.
Survey data and qualitative interviews report on people who owe DWP benefit overpayments, exploring their debt composition, management strategies and perceptions of repayment arrangements.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Independent research exploring industry perspectives on product safety, likely covering business practices, regulatory compliance and barriers to improving safety standards across sectors.
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.
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.
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.