The Labour Party manifesto set out that the Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee would be paid for by tackling waste through a Police Efficiency and Collaboration Programme.44 The Home Office has identified efficiency savings of £354 million over the period 2025–26 to 2028–29.45 We sought reassurances that the Police Efficiency and Collaboration Programme will be more effective than previous attempts to drive efficiency savings across police forces, which were based on forces finding savings from their annual budget allocations.46 The Home Office told us this was a more ambitious programme in which it is seeking to work more closely with police forces and stakeholders. It was confident that that it would achieve the savings by 2028–29 but acknowledged that some deliverables are high risk. For example, some initiatives require legislative change and, at November 2025, it had not established the funding necessary to deliver the programme.47