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Given its poor experience of developing bespoke technology in its transformation programme, HMPPS told us...

Conclusion
Given its poor experience of developing bespoke technology in its transformation programme, HMPPS told us that it was “very cautious” about commissioning further novel solutions. For example, while tags which monitor multiple drugs at the same time are currently unavailable on the market, it wanted to explore advances in drug testing and how this could be applied in the criminal justice system. HMPPS told us that it had created an £18.5 million innovation fund to explore how the market may be able to help develop tagging services in the future, including possible drug monitoring. In the meantime, it explained that it had started piloting tagging for other groups including domestic abuse perpetrators. It planned to roll out the use of GPS devices for high-risk domestic abuse offenders in 2023.42 Re-procuring contracts
Government Response Summary
The government agreed to the recommendation with a target date of February 2023, committing to produce and embed a robust lessons learned strategy and approach across the EM programme and with stakeholders.
Government Response
Accepted
HM Government Accepted
5.1 The government agrees with the Committee’s recommendation. Target implementation date: February 2023 5.2 The agency has a robust process for regularly capturing lessons learned from its EM expansion projects. This is an ongoing process owned and managed by the EM Programme Management Office. Lessons learned are captured at key points in each project’s lifecycle (for example, after each delivery release) and involve all key stakeholders. These lessons are agreed at the appropriate governance board and shared for awareness amongst the wider EM team and wider department where applicable. The programme also shares knowledge and experience between projects through sharing of resources. The agency recognises more can be done to embed lessons formally and consistently, including: • ensuring lessons are regularly and consistently reviewed, agreed, and shared across the programme to inform the design of future schemes; • introducing a more robust governance and assurance approach to ensure each recommendation and decision brought to any EM governance board has considered and embedded the relevant key lessons in the design of future schemes; and • sharing lessons more widely across the agency and the department where applicable. 5.3 By February 2023, the agency will produce a lesson learned strategy and approach that will be embedded across the EM programme and with stakeholders. This strategy will build on the work to date and ensure lessons learned are rigorously and consistently captured, agreed, and shared and subsequently robustly and formally embedded in the design and delivery of future schemes.
Addressee Bodies
HM Treasury
Timeline
Recommendation age 3.8 yrs
Report published 21 Oct 2022