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Recommendation 18

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On funding, the Department confirmed that it might give forces funds to ‘come on board’...

Conclusion
On funding, the Department confirmed that it might give forces funds to ‘come on board’ and test things early, and that it had put aside a £30 million contingency, specifically to work with individual forces on their adoption of the new law enforcement data system.34 On ensuring that police have the funding in future for NLEDS, the Department said it would keep working with forces to ensure they could make the choices each of them needed to make, and that this was part of the spending review.35 30 Qq 31–33 31 Q 17 32 Q 56 33 Q 57 34 Qq 23–24, 41 35 Q 88 14 The National Law Enforcement Data Programme 2 Future resilience Continued reliance on the Police National Computer