In contrast, in March 2022 the National Audit Office concluded that the Police Uplift Programme was on track to deliver value for money within its narrowly defined objective of recruiting an additional 20,000 police officers over three years. It reported that the tightly scoped objectives had helped to maintain a focus on delivery, and the Programme also benefited from strong support from police forces for recruiting 20,000 additional police officers.26 We asked the Department what factors had contributed to the programme’s success to date, and what lessons could be taken from it. The Department recognised that in some respects this had been an easier programme to deliver than some of its other programmes, but told us that there were several factors that it needed to capture from this programme and include in future. It explained that the first of these was the way in which the three partners involved in the Programme - the Home Office, the National Police Chiefs’ Council and the College of Policing – had worked together.27