The Department told us that it has also retained what it called a ‘no-go option’ for the programme, whereby it could still decide to transfer the PNC on to a different platform, but without getting the same benefits of transformation, such as being cloud-based. It The National Law Enforcement Data Programme 11 said it was confident in the benefits of its new approach which allowed more flexible and gradual adoption, force by force. But the programme remained complex and technically challenging, with obstacles that could get in the way, and so it was retaining this option as the “ultimate fallback”.16