The Cabinet Office's Evaluation Task Force published summaries on 21 September 2026 of projects funded under Phase 5 of its Evaluation Accelerator Fund. Announced in May 2026, the fund had an overall value of £6.5 million for the 2026/27 financial year. According to the summaries, £4.7 million was awarded to 40 projects through a competition, including £1.1 million from UKRI for projects on violence against women and girls and £590,000 from DWP for employment-related work. A further £1.4 million went directly to What Works Centres and £376,000 to Mayoral Strategic Authorities.

The summaries list awards covering artificial intelligence, local government, policing, tax, health and other priorities. These include £235,060 to the Institute for Employment Studies to evaluate AI tools in the Restart programme, £218,909 to the University of Sussex for a domestic abuse evidence tool, and £124,407 to the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine to evaluate impact-based heat-health alerts in England. Other listed projects examine income tax changes, NHS doctors' out-of-hours pay, school absence prediction in Newcastle and local authority evidence use. The summaries describe planned research and evaluation work.