This report shows how the UK Government's existing spending review process fails to align government spending with strategic priorities and long-term value for money. It recommends resetting the approach to spending reviews and introduces more effective ways of managing public spending.

In order to deliver on its priorities, the UK's civil service needs to manage its workforce more effectively, tackle damaging levels of staff turnover, reform pay structures and recruitment processes, access and utilise the full range of expertise outside of government, and open itself up to more challenge and scrutiny. This paper sets out 20...

The AUKUS program to deliver eight nuclear-powered conventionally armed submarines to Australia is a large, technologically challenging, and industrially demanding venture that has been widely criticised. This report addresses each of those critiques and concludes that some concerns are warranted but others have been ill-informed or driven by outdated assumptions.

Policymakers need to recognise the importance of privately owned social infrastructure and the willingness of many in the private sector to deliver community space. By broadening our understanding of the agents responsible for social infrastructure and highlighting creative approaches to its provision, the report's authors hope to encourage a new model of social infrastructure delivery...

Most of the money that flows to the UK's National Health Service now goes through Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) designed to simplify, integrate and localise the management of key healthcare services. This short paper, based on interviews with those involved in ICSs, looks at how they can be made to work better.