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<p>The Evaluation Task Force (ETF), set up in April 2021, has provided advice on 211
evaluations covering £115bn of Government spending. It has also launched the £15m
Evaluation Accelerator Fund through which more than 20 evaluations have been funded
in priority areas.</p><p>The ETF is currently updating the Government's major projects
review with the hope that all new major programmes in Government will have a robust
evaluation in place by 2023</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>By launching the Evaluation
Registry the ETF will provide a single repository of evaluations of UK Government
programmes, policies and projects. The Registry has been preloaded with over 2,000
existing Government evaluation reports, making it one of the largest sources of policy
evidence in the world.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Finally, the ETF has set up
and delivered the Evaluation Academy to 42 Civil Servants in 13 ministerial departments
and the Scottish Government. These delegates have gone on to share this expertise
by training over 1,100 civil servants in their respective Departments, creating free
and sustainable evaluation training.</p><p> </p>
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