Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Written Statement of 19 April 2018 on Police Funding, HCWS626, if he will publish the data set on productivity benefits from mobile working for each of the eight forces.

In 2017, based on a sample of eight forces, the Home Office estimated that if all forces could achieve one hour per officer, per day of productivity benefits from mobile working, this could potentially free up the equivalent of 11,000 extra officers nationally. We are not planning to publish data from that work, as we are currently undertaking a wider audit which will give us a more comprehensive picture of the potential benefits of mobile working, based on a wider sample of forces. The findings of this more comprehensive audit will inform decisions on how policing can maximise gains from mobile digital working going forward.