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Recommendation 10
10
Accepted
Home Office plans to publish police performance data, but specifics remain undetermined.
Recommendation
We asked the Home Office about its plans for publishing data on the performance of police forces. Written evidence from The Productivity Institute highlighted that ‘public trust’ is an important productivity outcome.20 The College of Policing agreed that the antidote to public mistrust is transparency and openness.21 The Home Office accepted that transparency can drive behaviour change and said its police performance framework will be published, although it did not yet know which particular datasets it would publish, or when, as this is a decision for ministers.22 The changing demands on policing
Government Response Summary
The government has published the first iteration of the Police Performance Framework and will write to the Committee by July 2026 setting out the key metrics it will incorporate in future iterations and plans for public reporting of performance data to support greater transparency.
Government Response
Accepted
HM Government
Accepted
1.1 The government agrees with the Committee’s recommendation. Target implementation date: July 2026 1.2 The government has now published the first iteration of the Police Performance Framework, as part of wider reforms to the police performance system described in From Local to National: A New Model for Policing, the Police Reform White Paper. The Framework sets out key metrics of police force performance. Analysis and reporting against the framework will enable better assessment of how a force is performing in its delivery of policing priorities. 1.3 The Home Office has committed to developing the Framework iteratively with a specific commitment to incorporate measures of force productivity and financial resilience in future iterations. The Home Office will write to the Committee by July 2026 setting out the key metrics it will incorporate in future iterations and our plans for public reporting of performance data to support greater transparency and strengthen accountability by publishing data on the performance of police forces. 1.4 The Home Office is currently working to improve and standardise the way in which financial information is provided by forces and developing a proposal to build on the Office for National Statistics’ forthcoming update on police productivity to provide a measure of force- level productivity. This work is being undertaken in collaboration with the policing sector and other external experts.