Question follow-through · 7755
Police: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she will publish a fully costed plan to reach the Police Efficiency and Collaboration Programme’s target of £354 million in savings by 2028-29.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 8 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 10 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 16 Jun 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she will publish a fully costed plan to reach the Police Efficiency and Collaboration Programme’s target of £354 million in savings by 2028-29.
10 Jun 2026
Target answer date
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16 Jun 2026
Answer published
The Police Efficiency and Collaboration Programme part of our police reform agenda, was stood up in Autumn 2024 to deliver £354 million of cashable savings identified in policing and to free up thousands of officer hours by 2028-29 – which will be reinves...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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