Schedule A - Schedule of Performance Criteria for the Quality Of Policy Advice
Policy advice delivered through this output expense must underpin effective decision-making by Ministers and the Government. To maximise the quality of Ministerial and government decision-making, policy advice must meet the measures of:
Process Integrity
- Compliance with formal Cabinet Office, Ministerial and other requirements governing policy advice.
- Fulfilment of MAF peer review, consultative, evaluation and other requirements governing the structure and process for developing policy advice.
Fitness for Purpose
- Relevant to the issues being addressed.
- Responsive to the Government's policy objectives, desired outcomes, portfolio commitments and obligations.
- Evidence-based and accurate.
- Frank and dispassionate.
- Timely.
- Clear, unambiguous and appropriate for the audience.
- Apply managing for outcomes and intervention logic methods and disciplines.
- Give Ministers clear guidance and specific recommendations.
- Accepted by Ministers or other recipients as meeting their needs.
Comprehensiveness
- Identifies all relevant options.
- Takes account of all relevant factors and ramifications, including regulatory impacts, compliance costs, changed incentives and unintended consequences.
- Is based on comprehensive consultation.
- Takes account of, and where appropriate gives direction on, the longer-term strategic implications, opportunities and ramifications.
- Lends itself to monitoring, evaluation and future refinements or enhancements.
Schedule B Assessment methods for the quality of policy advice
To ensure the quality of policy advice meets the measurement criteria identified in Schedule A, it will be assessed using one or more of the following methods:
- Ministerial rating;
- independent third-party review;
- evaluation results;
- agency/stakeholder feedback;
- internal peer review process.
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