The Department told us about its new engagement model, with more iterative delivery intended to enable quicker release cycles, so that capability gets into the hands of police forces more quickly.9 Where previously the Department had been looking at release cycles of around 12 months, it said it was aiming to reduce them to around three months or less for products, so that the certainty of delivery would be higher.10 When asked about its confidence in delivering the programme by 2025–26, the Department said that its recent work on the reset and the new engagement model had given it “increased confidence of deliverability of this programme going forwards”. It added that it had a 12-month rolling plan and had identified the initial six products that would be delivered.11 When asked about longer-term milestones, the Department said it had a rolling one-year timescale of milestones, on which it could give the Committee further detail and update us in future.12 It said it was looking ahead not over the next five years, but a year ahead from every quarter, which was why it was confident about the progress for six products over the next 12 months, but would then “update that as we go.”13 After our evidence session the Department provided us with its ‘roadmap’ covering progress of its first six product areas up to the end of quarter 3 (September) 2022.14 We have re-produced some key parts of that ‘roadmap’ in Figure 1. We expect to return to this subject to see whether the Department has progressed with these products as planned, and look forward to regular updates being provided to us.15 6 C&AG’s Report, paras 16, 3.18 7 C&AG’s Report, para 2.17 8 Q 52; C&AG’s Report, paras 2.17, 3.18 9 Qq 39. 47 10 Q 38 11 Q 47 12 Qq 48, 51, 52 13 Q 90 14 Letter from Home Office Permanent Secretary to PAC Chair 7 October 2021 15 Q 52 10 The National Law Enforcement Data Programme Figure 1: Extracts of the Home Office’s October 2021 ‘roadmap’ looking ahead 12 months for the first six produ