Public Sector Research Establishment Value Framework
Guidance on assessing performance and value of Public Sector Research Establishment
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Public Sector Research Establishments (PSREs) play an important role in the UK’s science, research, development, and innovation (RDI) landscape. Principally, they support government by providing science advice to policymakers, by acting as a strategic capability in policy delivery and by delivering critical science services for government, business, and society.
The purpose of this document is to provide a broad framework and a set of common principles to support departments in assessing the value and performance of the PSREs they sponsor, and to think critically about how they could be better utilised.
This framework should be used during the Cabinet Office’s Arms-Length Body (ALB) review process to ensure a consistent standard of reviews of PSREs across departments, but it is also recommended that future reviews of PSREs conducted separately to the ALB reviews, should make use of this framework.