Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she will take to measure the impact of the Economic Crime Plan 2 on economic crime.

The government is committed to tracking and measuring the progress and impact of the Plan and our approach to this is set out as part of Action 43 in the recently published Economic Crime Plan 2. As outlined in the Plan, we are developing an outcomes framework, as part of a wider performance monitoring approach to enable us to provide a consistent focus on the outcomes set out in the Plan.

This will help us track and measure progress and performance across the system, and assess progress from the delivery of the actions to the ultimate impacts we are having. Our approach will also include working closely with experts and stakeholders to explore opportunities to access new data to help refine and develop our performance indicators. The Data Annex, published alongside ECP2, is the first step towards achieving our longer-term goals regarding performance and impact measurement.