Policy gold or wooden spoon? Is there a case for putting government targets into law?
Team GB’s target of 48 medals at London 2012 was high profile, public – and, unlike so many other policy targets – achieved. But would it have made any difference if the Blair government had decided to put it into law? We looked at the recent phenomenon of legislated policy targets at a private roundtable with lawyers and policy advisers and have published a short discussion paper on the pros and cons.