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 an up-to-date assessment of New Covent Garden Market’s role and economic and social impact, covering its operations, employment, supply-chain links and local/regional benefits to inform stakeholders and planning decisions for the market’s future.
Analyses UK road fuel prices in August 2026, assessing how the Middle East conflict affected retail pump prices, wholesale spreads and industry margins to understand market impacts and price transmission to consumers.
Provides independent advice to DCMS on a proposed subsidy to UDX Development Company Limited, assessing the measure’s compatibility with subsidy control rules and likely economic effects on the relevant market and competitors.
Estimates economic and social welfare impacts of night flights in the UK and models how those impacts would change under alternative night‑flying policy scenarios, informing potential policy adjustments.
Details the data, parameters and modelling approach used in the NQTM to assess the upgraded UK–Republic of Korea Free Trade Agreement, explaining how impacts were simulated in the paper.
Sets out the background, data sources and parameter choices used to build BIST’s new quantitative trade model (NQTM), documenting assumptions and inputs for model use and further analysis.
Study by CEBR develops and tests a bespoke methodology to estimate the economic contribution of the UK heritage sector, aiming to produce standardised metrics for sector value and impact measurement.
Final independent evaluation of the Create Growth Programme assesses bespoke finance, business support and investor capacity-building for creative businesses in England, reporting on programme delivery, outcomes for participating firms and lessons for scaling support.
Final evaluation of the UK Games Fund reviews DunDev and the Content Fund (2022/23–2024/25), assessing economic, impact and process outcomes from the 2025 research into fund performance and industry support.
Estimates the economic and social cost of fraud against individuals and businesses in England and Wales for 2023–24, quantifying harms and likely impacts on victims, firms and public services over that financial year.
Estimates potential UK economic gains from removing non-skill, non-productivity barriers faced by under‑represented groups in the digital economy, modelling impacts of full equal access on digital-sector output and participation.
Estimates of Heathrow expansion's economic impacts produced using spatial computable general equilibrium (SCGE) modelling, quantifying regional and sectoral effects of airport growth on output, employment and trade.
Presents the quarterly National Survey of Businesses, a cross‑cutting survey capturing UK firms’ perceptions and challenges to inform the Department for Business and Trade’s strategic objectives and policy development.
A Government Office for Science foresight report assesses risks to global supply chains and offers resilience measures to help UK decision-makers protect supply continuity, economic growth and prosperity.
Frontier Economics' independent evaluation assesses the Create Growth Programme (2022–24), which offers tailored finance, business support and investor capacity building aimed at scaling creative businesses across England.
Early‑stage evaluation of the Medicines and Diagnostics Manufacturing Transformation Fund and its successor, the Life Sciences Innovative Manufacturing Fund, examining initial delivery, outputs and early indicators of impact for UK life‑sciences manufacturing.
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.
Presents the Low Pay Commission’s evidence and analysis that underpinned its recommendations for National Minimum and Living Wage rates from April 2026, including labour market and employer impact assessment.
Examines how UK design protection is used and proposes potential reforms, analysing current practice, gaps and policy options to improve design rights, enforcement and business support.
Independent process evaluation of the Automotive Transformation Fund assessing whether the ATF is being implemented as intended, how effectively its design operates and any issues affecting delivery to automotive firms.
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.
Series of research reports commissioned to inform the Low Pay Commission’s recommendations on National Minimum Wage rates for 2026, providing evidence on low‑paid work and wage impacts.
Second wave of a multi‑year study examining how UK firms' use of business data relates to productivity and wider economic outcomes, continuing collection and analysis to map patterns and inform policy on data-driven growth.
A series of reports estimate the costs and economic impact of cyber attacks on the UK, detailing financial losses and wider economic effects to inform national cyber resilience and risk‑management policy.
Quantifies the economic and social returns to the UK from public research and development spending, assessing benefits generated by public R&D investment for growth and societal outcomes.
Reports results from a 2024 survey of businesses capturing firms’ perceptions of the extent and impact of regulation in the UK, including views on regulatory burden and enforcement.
Study identifies and measures local drivers of creative industries’ growth across the UK, analysing factors that support creative clusters and offering evidence on place-based conditions which boost creative sector expansion.
Homes England’s second paper on measuring social value focuses on brownfield development values, providing methods and metrics to assess social outcomes from redevelopment of previously developed land.