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Public sector

Creating public value through technical consultancy services

Regulation is the core competence of government and smart policymaking the foundational responsibility of it. Our deep grounding in public policy design allows us to to support public sector clients in conceptualising and designing world-class public policy and regulation.
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Regulatory strategy

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Our teams work with public sector clients designing public policy strategies in areas such as inward investment frameworks, international trade strategy or cutting-edge policy areas such as net zero. Our international teams mean that that we can provide policymakers with cross-jurisdiction comparative insights to help them design frameworks that match international best practice. 

Regulatory design

Description

Our technical experts can support policymakers at every phase in the policy and regulatory design process, in areas such as fiscal, inward investment, trade, tech and climate policy, from building the evidence base for regulatory and policy choices, designing and drafting regulation in law or guidance. 

Specialist training

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Our senior teams work with public bodies to design and deliver specialist training programmes across a range of public policy specialisms.  This ranges from general training in public policy design to specialist training in areas such as technical regulatory design and negotiation and diplomacy skills.

Insight and proprietary research

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Our specialist proprietary insights team is experienced in designing both polling and focus group research around public policy questions. Public sector clients use us to test policy propositions and draw out understanding of the likely public response to policy choices. 

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Cross-team collaboration

Our business is comprised of sectoral, thematic and regional politics and policy teams operating globally. Learn more about how they work.