MD2254 A world leading Social Evidence Base to support policy making

The development of a Social Evidence Base for London will collate and publish a comprehensive range of evidence to support Mayoral priorities. The Social Evidence Base will bring together existing and new sources of intelligence on social policy so that teams have consistent information for briefing, policy making and monitoring. This will address current fragmented evidence sources and develop better data tools and measures of human and social progress for London.

The Social Evidence Base will:
- set out current knowledge of the socio-economic situation in London;
- provide a sound rationale for policy and programmatic interventions; and
- enable monitoring and evaluation of progress.

That the Mayor approves the expenditure of up to £375,000 to deliver the Social Evidence Base Programme for 2018/19 as detailed in paragraphs 2.2 to 2.5 including:

- Expenditure of £175,000 for the procurement of a contractor to carry out fieldwork interviews for a survey of Londoners;
- Expenditure of £120,000 for the procurement of a contractor(s) to carry out policy research in the areas specified; and
- Expenditure of £80,000 on purchase of new data sources and analysis to support our understanding of social integration including analysis of social media data and consumer research data.