Government Economic Service

The Government Economic Service (GES) champions economics in government and promotes the use of high-quality, high impact economic analysis provided by excellent economists.  The GES is also committed to the core values of the Civil Service: integrity, honesty, objectivity, and impartiality, and aims to realise these values through cooperation and collaboration across government and beyond.

GES economists can be found working across all areas of the Civil Service, providing economic analysis and insight in support of the entire range of UK Government and public service activities. Supporting policy development, public service delivery, ministerial objectives, or meeting at pace the issues of the day.

GES economists are employed by departments. The GES runs centralised recruitment for economists and acts collaboratively as a profession to support its members, their employers, and the GES’ leadership. This work includes:

  • promoting good analysis and evidence in government, by maintaining professional standards and a technical framework
  • championing the use of economics in policy making
  • leading the recruitment of new economists into government
  • providing training opportunities for our economists, including a large annual conference, seminar series throughout the year and centralized training courses
  • supporting professional development of economists at each stage of their careers. 

The contracts delivering the current Learning Frameworks service end on the 30 April 2026. Because of this, some profession and function-recommended products may not be available for booking. The prospectus pages for the products this effects have been updated, and will state a last booking date as part of the product description.

These changes are happening across a series of waves and more information can be found here. The products in Wave 1 will not be available to book from 30 June 2025.

We anticipate you will be able to start booking these products again from May 2026, when the next contract is live.