Research and analysis

Monitoring and evaluating the new pro-competition regime for digital markets

Framework for monitoring and evaluating the pro-competition regime and the Digital Markets Unit (DMU) which will oversee it.

• From: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and Department for Business and Trade
• Published: 4 May 2023

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Monitoring and evaluating the new pro-competition regime for digital markets

Ref: DSIT Research Paper Series Number 2023/011

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The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) and Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) aim to establish comprehensive, appropriate and proportionate monitoring and evaluation coverage across all policies and programmes.

As a first step the 2 departments commissioned London Economics to develop a framework for monitoring and evaluating the pro-competition regime and the Digital Markets Unit (DMU) which will oversee it. The framework will be used by DBT and DSIT to assist in the development of the monitoring and evaluation plan, which will outline the government’s proposals for the post-implementation review (PIR), and the approach to monitoring the regime’s implementation and outcomes.

This framework provides the government with a structure around which an effective monitoring and evaluation plan can be built. It is made up of 3 main elements:

• a theory of change (ToC)
• a logical framework
• evaluation guidance

Since producing this report, responsibility for digital markets has moved to DSIT.

Published 4 May 2023