The Department told us that the second lesson was that the Programme had benefited from a high degree of stability within its programme team, with very little staff turnover since the Programme began. Finally, the Department told us that the success to date of the Programme was also due to its “clarity of mission” and that it had been given a narrow scope – the recruitment of 20,000 new officers over three years.28 The Department told us that it was committed to learning the lessons from the Programme and implementing them elsewhere. It explained that it had shared the NAO’s report with the Senior Responsible Owners of all the Department’s other major programmes and asked them to consider what they could learn from the Programme’s example. It also committed to setting up a team to sustain some of the successes achieved by the Programme.29 Wider lessons from the Programme