The UK Treasury is introducing PDEL to ringfence funding for preventive policies ahead of next year's spending review.
Thinktank Demos identified 22 billion pounds in state costs that could have been avoided through preventive initiatives.
Government departments will have to make individual cases for programmes like rough sleeping to be classed under PDEL.
Treasury officials confirmed there are no plans to treat preventive funding as investment for fiscal borrowing rules.
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