Total marks available for Question 1: 70 marks Word limit for Question 1: 1600 words Imagine that you work in a health-policy consultancy firm. You have been hired by the government of a small island off the UK coast that is completely new to evaluating its policies. You must provide advice on a plan to subsidise healthy meal box deliveries to cook at home, with a 50% discount for all families with children who choose to opt in. The government is considering a small scale pilot in two of its 15 towns and villages before universally launching the scheme. They are looking for a budget-neutral policy over time. Write a briefing to be submitted to the government that: describes in general terms the purpose of doing evaluations and the types of evaluation the government might want to consider articulates a plausible ultimate goal of the policy and suggests a theory of change for how discounted healthy home meals might achieve that goal suggests a design for an impact or economic evaluation, including the type of data that would need to be gathered and any distributional and ethical issues you have considered