Moved by
Lord Mawson
282A: After Clause 226, insert the following new Clause—
“Departmental implementation review and learning network
(1) As soon as reasonably practicable after this Act is passed, the Secretary of State must instruct the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities to undertake a review on how best to implement it.
(2) The review must include a short exercise to draw together experience from across government departments of what has and has not worked with regard to successful competitive programmes that have specifically promoted joined-up working and innovation.
(3) The review must, in particular, consider what mechanisms were and were not in place to take the learning from these programmes to inform future programme design by central and regional government.
(4) The review must also evaluate the most straightforward processes to use in implementing this Act, using the methodology that every question to bidders has an opportunity cost.
(5) The review must involve input from experienced practitioners from outside government in the design of the programme of implementation, the assessment of applications, including meeting the leaders of shortlisted proposed projects as well as assessing written proposals.
(6) Following the review, the Secretary of State must—
(a) establish a learning network for those delivering projects and other stakeholders, and
(b) take steps to secure that government departments are taking part and learning lessons at all levels,
in respect of the implementation of this Act.”