Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list what policy evaluations have been carried out by external organisations for his Department and its agencies in each financial year since 2010-11; whether the output of those evaluations was published; which organisation carried out each such evaluation; and what the value of each contract to provide that evaluation was.

The Department commissions research-based evidence for policy development, implementation and evaluation through the Policy Research Programme (PRP). Details of projects, initiatives and long-term programmes of research currently funded by the PRP are available on the website of the PRP Central Commissioning Facility: http://www.prp-ccf.org.uk/

These details include research summary, contractor, start date, estimated date of completion, and value of the award. The website also has links to summary final reports received since April 2011.