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Detailed Departmental guidance

Departments' more detailed guidance (and analyses/rationale) to meet their specific needs.

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General guidance and general issues
Evaluation
Competition
Crime
Environment
Health
Health and Safety
Public Sector Output and Productivity
Regeneration
Regions
Transport

General guidance and general issues

Scottish Public Finance Manual: Appraisal and Evaluation (Scottish Executive)

  • This section of the manual provides guidance on appraisal and evaluation techniques and procedures


Northern Ireland Economic Appraisal Guidance (Northern Ireland)

  • The Northern Ireland Practical Guide to the Green Book 2003 and a number of other resources, including spreadsheets to help calculate Net Present Values and Optimism Bias, links to other relevant sites, and contact details


Defence Guidance (JSP 507 MOD Guide To Investment Appraisal And Evaluation) (MOD)

  • Advice on all aspects of investment appraisal and evaluation in MOD, including real options analysis (but not preparation of business cases)


DCFS/DIUS appraisal and evaluation guide

  • Evaluation and Appraisal Guidance (PDF) (DCFS/DIUS)
    General guidance covering the key considerations that must be made when developing policy (rather than covering issues surrounding appraising education and training policies or children's services). For all those responsible for policy development and delivery, capital projects, the use or disposal of assets, the specification of regulations or any major procurement decision.


Culture (DCMS) The White Book

  • The White Book (DCMS)
    Guidance on all stages in assessing, appraising, monitoring and evaluating expenditure decisions. Signposts to more detailed sources of guidance and support are also provided.


Understanding policy options (Home Office)

  • Understanding policy options (PDF) (Home Office)
    Guidance for policy makers to diagnose problems by market failure and generate a shortlist of policy options (from examining changing the behaviour of intermediaries and victims to prevent crime).


Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform webpage (BERR)

  • Links to economics and statistics pages


Work and Pensions (DWP) Review of cost-benefit framework


Economic valuation with stated preference techniques DfT 2002 GES Working Paper 140

  • Economic valuation with stated preference techniques (DfT 2002 GES Working Paper 140) (PDF)
    How to undertake and make best use of economic valuation with stated preference techniques for valuing non-monetary costs and benefits. Summarises the essential steps required for conducting high quality stated preference valuation studies. Written for people involved in commissioning, managing or assign stated preference (SP) based appraisals. It will help those who need to decide whether or how to find money values for measurable but unpriced impacts such as environmental effects in order to use these values in cost benefit analysis of policy or project options.


Long term discounting

  • Background papers for the 2003 Green Book


Multi-criteria analysis manual (DCLG)

  • How to undertake and make best use of multi-criteria analysis for appraising options for policy and other decisions.


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Evaluation

Magenta Book (Policy Hub)

  • Guidance on effective policy making and how to ensure that new policies have evaluation of their effectiveness built into them from the start.


Performance and Evaluation Team website (BERR)


RDA evaluation guidance


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Competition

Assessing the impact of public sector procurement on competition (2004)


Public policy: using market-based approaches


Vulnerable consumers and financial services


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Crime

Economic and social costs of crime (Home Office)


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Environment

Environmental Valuation Reference Inventory (EVRI) database

  • Over 1900 valuation studies worldwide


DEFRA Valuation Research


Air Quality Strategy (DEFRA)


Flood and Coastal Erosion: project appraisal guidance (DEFRA)

  • Six titles in the series, designed to provide an integrated suite of guidance on all aspects of project appraisal.


Sustainable development

  • Guidance currently being drafted will outline an ecosystems approach to appraisal.


Environmental Valuation Source List for the UK (DEFRA)

  • Single point of reference for the location of printed items containing money values of environmental impacts and assets in the United Kingdom.


Shadow Price of Carbon (DEFRA)

  • How to value greenhouse gas emissions, for all policy and project appraisals with significant effects on carbon emissions.


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Health

Policy Appraisal & Health

  • Policy Appraisal & Health (PDF) (DH)
    Explains how health effects can be taken properly into account in policy making (to help ensure that national health targets are met).


NICE Guide to the Methods of Technology Appraisal (NICE)

  • One of a set of documents that describes the process and methods that NICE uses to undertake technology appraisals (due for revision in 2007)


Related NICE guidance (NICE)


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Health and Safety

HSE Guidance is being updated following the Impact Assessment launch.

Current guidance::


Research reports:


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Public Sector Output and Productivity (ONS)

Measurement of the output of public sector activities (ONS)

  • Often the key to characterising fully the benefits of public sector activity


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Regeneration etc (DCLG)

Appraisal and evaluation guidance (DCLG)


3 R's - Assessing the Impacts of Spatial Interventions: Regeneration, Renewal and Regional Development (DCLG)

  • Sets out the broad framework for assessing spatially targeted interventions, focusing on broad principles rather than defining rigid procedures. Extends the Green Book to cover the appraisal of regeneration, renewal and regional development initiatives with spatial impacts.


Optimism bias: guidance for OB adjustments for regeneration, decent homes, and fire projects (DCLG)



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Regions

Single Programme Appraisal Guidance (SPAG)


RDA Impact Evaluation Framework

  • RDA Impact Evaluation Framework (PDF) (BERR)
    Explains the purpose, approach and methods for the evaluation of the impact of the English Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) and their contribution to the achievement of regional and national objectives.


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Transport

Webtag (DfT)

  • Guidance on the conduct of transport studies


Economics and appraisal (DfT)

  • DfT webpage providing guidance and links


Integrated Transport Economics and Appraisal (DfT)

  • DfT webpage providing guidance and links


Road safety (DfT)

  • Estimates of the values for prevention of road casualties and road accidents for use in the appraisal of road schemes.


Scottish transport appraisal guidance (Scottish Executive)

  • Outlines a process that assists transport planners and decision-makers in the development of multi modal transport policies, plans, programmes and projects.


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