It is nearly four years since the strategy was published and the Ministry does not yet have an overall plan to evaluate the work it and others have done in this area.56 We asked the Ministry if it had the data it needed to know what it is achieving against each of the strategy’s aims and the performance measures it will use to assess progress. It replied that it is still working on what its performance metrics will look like. To do this it needs to understand what it is it is trying to achieve, how it will know when it has got there and 47 C&AG’s Report, paras 2.9–2.10 48 Q 46 49 Qq 46, 76 50 Q 29 51 Qq 28, 66 52 Q 75; Ev CJS0013 Women in Prison submission para 3 53 C&AG’s Report, para 3.19 54 Ev CJS0011 penultimate para, page 3 55 Ev CJS0011 para 2, page 4 56 Q 45; C&AG’s Report para 3.12 Improving outcomes for women in the criminal justice system 15 how it is going to measure it. It told us it will soon be appointing a director general for performance strategy and analysis to focus on data and evidence.57 The Ministry told us that the governance and data are important to make sure it is investing in the right sorts of interventions.58