Source · Select Committees · Public Accounts Committee
Recommendation 19
19
Accepted
The Department told us that the second lesson was that the Programme had benefited from...
Recommendation
The Department told us that the second lesson was that the Programme had benefited from a high degree of stability within its programme team, with very little staff turnover since the Programme began. Finally, the Department told us that the success to date of the Programme was also due to its “clarity of mission” and that it had been given a narrow scope – the recruitment of 20,000 new officers over three years.28 The Department told us that it was committed to learning the lessons from the Programme and implementing them elsewhere. It explained that it had shared the NAO’s report with the Senior Responsible Owners of all the Department’s other major programmes and asked them to consider what they could learn from the Programme’s example. It also committed to setting up a team to sustain some of the successes achieved by the Programme.29 Wider lessons from the Programme
Government Response Summary
The government agreed to capture and disseminate lessons from the Police Uplift Programme and will produce a lessons learned report and a best practice document by August 2023.
Government Response
Accepted
HM Government
Accepted
1. PAC conclusion: The Department has so far successfully met its objectives for the Programme. 1. PAC recommendation: The Department should systematically capture and disseminate lessons from what has worked with this programme to benefit its major programme portfolio and policing more widely. It should summarise and publish these lessons by April 2023 to support learning across government. 1.1 The government agrees with the Committee’s recommendation. Target implementation date: August 2023 1.2 As is good practice under the government project delivery framework, the Police Uplift Programme captures lessons following key activity and periodically. Some of these lessons have already been shared across policing, the Home Office and with other government departments. As the programme plans for closure it is preparing documentation that captures the lessons as part of closure reporting. 1.3 The sharing of lessons and what has worked well has been recognised by the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA), recommending that the programme produce a ‘best practice’ document that can be shared with the IPA and across government. The Home Office, with the programme, will produce a lessons learned report and a best practice document for the Home Office, other parts of government and policing, as recommended by the committee and that of the IPA. 1.4 In order to capture the lessons and best practice and to include programme closure, the document will be shared in August 2023, rather than recommended April 2023 date.