To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she will publish a fully costed plan to reach the Police Efficiency and Collaboration Programme’s target of £354 million in savings by 2028-29.

The Police Efficiency and Collaboration Programme part of our police reform agenda, was stood up in Autumn 2024 to deliver £354 million of cashable savings identified in policing and to free up thousands of officer hours by 2028-29 – which will be reinvested in local policing. This will come from a number of activities, including:

• making commercial efficiencies through national buying and frameworks, with more standardised specifications, to leverage national buying power
• increasing the costs that policing can charge for non-essential services
• making productivity improvements from technology, data and AI that save time
• managing shared services nationally to streamline and reduce duplication by 43 police forces.
• establishing the enabling services of the National Police Service, reforming some existing national police capabilities for policing to improve the support they provide for police forces

The final costs for the full life of the programme are being finalised and will be agreed as part of the Strategic Outline Business Case.

The programme is already making savings and has made good progress in laying the foundations and proving that the approaches work. This includes central procurement of vehicles, software license and defibrillators, as well as updating the fees policing can charge for services such as issuing firearms.

We estimate the programme has made savings of at least £60m in 2025-26 and are working to validate the final figure in the coming weeks.