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Performance Tracker 2022: Summary
While there are interconnected structural failures that will not be easy to address, there are steps that the government can take.
Performance Tracker 2022: Cross-service analysis
This year’s Performance Tracker assesses how nine public services have coped with the effects of the pandemic.
Performance Tracker 2022: Methodology
Background information on our research for each spending area
Accountability after Brexit
The prime minister – or MPs – must overhaul parliament's feeble Brexit scrutiny.
Outcome delivery plans
Keeping outcome delivery plans will help Liz Truss achieve her government's goals.
Tackling the UK’s energy efficiency problem
Liz Truss should overhaul the government’s energy efficiency policies.
What is in the new chancellor's in-tray?
The new chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, should use Truss’s planned ‘fiscal event’ to be honest about difficult choices on tax and spending beyond this win
Becoming a minister: Getting to grips with departmental budgets
Before newly appointed ministers can get started on any of their own plans, they need to quickly get to grips with their department's existing budget.
Business investment
The next prime minister should commit to an industrial strategy if they want to encourage businesses to invest in Britain again.
IfG case study: Oak National Academy
Why Oak National Academy is a positive example of rapid innovation in the delivery of public services.