Fifteenth Report - The Police Uplift Programme

Select Committee
Public Accounts Committee HC 261 22 July 2022
Report Status Government responded
Conclusions & Recommendations 33 items (20 recs)
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Government Response (AI assessment · 33 of 33 classified)
Accepted 21
Accepted in Part 2
Acknowledged 4
Deferred 1
Not Addressed 5
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Treasury minutes: Government response to the Committee of Public Accounts on the Fifteenth report from Session 2022-23 · published 14 Oct 2022
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Recommendations & Conclusions

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8 Conclusion Not Addressed
Diversity in policing is slowly improving, but it has continued along the same trend for...
Conclusion
Diversity in policing is slowly improving, but it has continued along the same trend for the past ten years. Prior to the launch of the Programme in September 2019, almost 32% of police officers were female, and by December 2021 … Read more
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The government's response discusses police diversity data and initiatives, and does not address the point made in the conclusion.
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9 Conclusion Not Addressed
Policing in England and Wales has struggled with increasing ethnic diversity within its ranks.
Conclusion
Policing in England and Wales has struggled with increasing ethnic diversity within its ranks. Based on the 2011 census some 14% of the population of England and Wales are from ethnic minority groups, but in 2019 only 6.9% of serving … Read more
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The government's response discusses police diversity data and initiatives, and does not address the point made in the conclusion.
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12 Conclusion Not Addressed
The recent Strategic Review of Policing also concluded that the Programme was ‘having a negligible...
Conclusion
The recent Strategic Review of Policing also concluded that the Programme was ‘having a negligible impact on workforce diversity’.18 We asked the Department if it was disappointed that the comment had been made. The Department told us that it did … Read more
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The government's response discusses police diversity data and initiatives, and does not address the point made in the conclusion.
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25 Conclusion Not Addressed
The Department told us that it expected the recruitment of the remaining officers to be...
Conclusion
The Department told us that it expected the recruitment of the remaining officers to be more challenging than the proceeding two years. Firstly, it explained that the final year of the Programme required a greater number of officers to be … Read more
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The government's response discusses police diversity data and initiatives, and does not address the challenges of meeting recruitment targets.
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26 Conclusion Not Addressed
These challenges were particularly evident in relation to the Metropolitan Police Service, which has faced...
Conclusion
These challenges were particularly evident in relation to the Metropolitan Police Service, which has faced a number of recent high-profile incidents involving serving police officers. In his evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee in April 2022, the Acting Commissioner … Read more
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The government's response discusses police diversity data and initiatives, and does not address the point made in the conclusion.
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