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- How do we ensure a sustainable economic recovery post COVID-19 with environmental outcomes built in; and what is the potential for rural communities and businesses to contribute?
- Marginal value of RDI: What is the marginal value of RDI in a programme? Many different research projects are funded in open research calls - how does the average value of these research projects compare to the marginal value of the last research project chosen?
- What forms of funding and support have been shown to be effective for this sector, to maximise sector health and beneficial outcomes?
- Understanding what alternative service delivery models are being used elsewhere that contribute to greater financial efficiency and improved policing outcomes
- How can the benefit system best help low income and vulnerable households with their housing costs? What is the impact of DWP’s expenditure on housing support? What factors impact on evictions, homelessness and rough sleeping? How effective are policies designed to reduce homelessness?
- What are good policies, interventions, and strategies to improve the capability and capacity of local authorities to deliver transport provision?
- What are possible governance and finance options for flood and coastal erosion risk management?
- How do different models of funding, planning and decision-making result in different outcomes for transport e.g., centralised vs. devolved; public vs. private operation of networks/asset management; short vs. long-term?
- What are the long-term financial sustainability considerations for the BBC, including from the changing media market and any learnings from international PSB funding models?
- To what extent does the distance from and/or density of AHT assets determine engagement rates among specific groups? What does this mean for public investment into AHT infrastructure?
- What data and metrics exist which could be used to estimate the return on R&I activities?
- What barriers exist to building sustainable business models in the press sector and what action is required to remove these?
- What are the key factors that could drive improved productivity and efficiency in the delivery of DWP services? How can DWP services be designed to effectively identify vulnerable groups and those with complex multiple needs, in order to facilitate early intervention in partnership with other organisations?
- Which interventions can be used to incentivise improvements in water quality in the environment?
- Better understanding productivity in policing, and how to improve the link between budget spend and policing outcomes
- Analyse to what extent the AHTassets/offer act as push and pull factors in people and business decisions to move, stay or leave for a different location? What does this mean for public investment policy in culture, heritage and tourism and growth of cultural clusters?
- Analyse the most significant factors that create barriers/risks to financial health for AHT organisations. What policy interventions can reduce financial risk for these organisations?
- What are the drivers and barriers of other funders of the sector, including social and mainstream investors and commissioners?
- What is the best/most appropriate indicator of financial health and sustainability of AHT organisations? At what point do AHT organisations become at risk and might require government intervention to secure their long term survival?
- What does the evidence show was more or less effective about the particularly intense engagement between local and national government during the pandemic, and what we have learnt about the key enablers developed between the tiers of government in this last period? Which of these would most helpfully be sustained in future (e.g. data sharing)?
- Understanding the cost of crime in London to communities and the public sector
- How can collaboration between organisations, commissioners and other funders across CSY sectors and actors be enhanced at local levels to support better outcomes?
- How to assess the costs and benefits of existing international collaborations?
- What kind of mix of business models for PSB and non-PSB broadcasters might the market sustain going forwards?
- How can innovative forms of commissioning and effective cross-sector collaboration improve outcomes at local levels?
- How can DWP ensure all those entitled to claim benefits or access DWP services are reached? What barriers to accessing support services are faced by individuals from disadvantaged groups?
- How do schools and colleges become more financially efficient over time? What are the drivers of that behaviour and how can it best be stimulated, supported and replicated?
- How can we develop and exploit new methodologies to ensure cost-effective monitoring of climate change and adaptation actions and impact on climate risk? How do we measure resilience to test the success and cost effectiveness of actions, and incorporate resilience indicators into decision making?
- How can society and government act to protect and enhance nature, thereby sustaining the ecosystem services (including mitigation and adaptation to climate change) it provides, under a changing climate?
- Use of statistics: Who is using official statistics, where do they find them, how are they being used, and what influences this? What do people look for in statistics or data being used as evidence to have confidence in using them, and how can we build this confidence?
- How can we encourage or incentivise behavioural change to achieve positive outcomes for the environment, and how can we enable appropriate informed adaptive management with communities?
- How can government finance regeneration and recycle the benefits to reduce the costs to taxpayers?
- How should local authority resilience, capacity, capability and financial sustainability be defined and measured? How have they changed over time?
- What are the holistic economic and fiscal impacts of online gambling protections?