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Recommendation 39
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Accepted
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Provide interim assessment of Project ADDER by January 2024 and updated assessment post-2025 conclusion.
Recommendation
As the Project ADDER pilot is set to continue until 2025, we recommend the Home Office provide us with an interim assessment of the pilot by January 2024. The Home Office must also provide us with an updated assessment of the pilot no more than three months after its conclusion in 2025.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government accepts the recommendation and commits to providing an interim assessment of the Project ADDER pilot by January 2024, followed by an updated assessment within three months of its conclusion in 2025.
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Government Response
Accepted
HM Government · verbatim extract
Accepted
The Government partially accepts this recommendation. As a pathfinder programme, Project ADDER is underpinned by a robust monitoring and evaluation framework. An independent evaluation is underway and an update will be shared with the Committee next year, at such a point that it is ready. We recommend that Project ADDER be extended across all of England and Wales if the assessments indicate that the Project is effect in achieving all of its aims: reducing drug-related deaths, drug-related offending, drug use, and disrupting the supply and trafficking of drugs. If the Government does not extend Project ADDER beyond the pilot phase, we recommend that it must make clear how it will preserve the progress made in the existing 13 pilot locations beyond 2025.
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