The Senate's Impact Assessment Office, chaired by the President of the Senate, is an impartial body that works to help spread, develop and enhance the evaluation culture in Italy, within the institutional perimeter. It conducts analyses and assessments of public policies based on the study of risks, costs, benefits and efficacy, answering the following questions: Has this law worked? Has it produced the desired change? Would it have been possible to do better? Was the money well spent?