Event

What can central government do to improve productivity in public services?

This event hosted by UK think tank the Institute for Government is the 6th in the Productivity Pitches series highlighting outstanding examples of innovation across public services.

Productivity in public services has never been more important. Most services are struggling to return to pre-pandemic performance levels, and the new Labour government has indicated that spending will remain tight. Improvements in performance will likely come from frontline workers finding new, innovative ways of delivering services.  

So what can be done to improve productivity? By highlighting outstanding examples of innovation across public services, Productivity Pitches, a series of events hosted by the IfG, aims to share and support ways to improve performance levels.

This event is the sixth in the series and focuses on central government.

Each speaker has 10 minutes to present their innovation, followed by 10 minutes of audience questions. The chair and a guest from The Productivity Institute – which is kindly supporting this event series – will bring together the common themes from the pitches and discuss the lessons for improving productivity.

The speakers for this edition of Productivity Pitches are:  

• Brice Dassy and Dominic Lague on how the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) has recently started using the Cabinet Office-developed Government Reporting Integration Platform (GRIP) to simplify and speed up the data collection and sharing process for major projects, providing ministers with more timely and relevant information than under the previous system.
• Freya Pinks and Laurie Thraves on the launch of The National Situation Centre (SitCen), which was established to collate up to date data and information in one place. Their dashboards allow policy makers to assess risk and respond quickly in the case of a national emergency or crisis.
• Final speakers TBC

The event is chaired by Emma Norris, Deputy Director at the Institute for Government. Dr Nina Jörden, Research Associate at the Bennett Institute will join the discussion of common themes.