The Evaluation Registry: a new home for Government evaluation

In March this year, the Evaluation Task Force launched the Evaluation Registry: a website which will act as a single home for evaluations across Government. 

Evaluation is critical to understanding what works in public policy, for whom, and under what circumstances. It’s the key to ensuring that government programmes are delivered effectively, have a positive impact and provide good value for money to the public. Evaluation supports us to make evidence-based decisions about which policies, projects and programmes should be continued, modified, or stopped.

But it can be difficult to find and access the right evaluation evidence when you need it. The Evaluation Registry brings together evaluation plans and reports in a single, accessible website. 

In simple terms, the Evaluation Registry is a GOV.UK site where all UK government planned, live and completed evaluations should be registered. As well as registering evaluations, users can search and browse the Registry to learn from previous evaluation findings and plan new research. 

As of June 2025, the Registry contains over 1,750 entries and counting, making it one of the largest sources of evaluation evidence in the world! 

In our founding plans for the Evaluation Task Force, we identified the need for a single location for evaluations to be found - whether that’s planned evaluations, evaluations currently underway, or those that are complete with findings to report.