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Currently, 11% of the NHS estate is older than the NHS itself and many providers report that ageing premises are unsuitable to deliver community health services.

The Committee’s inquiry will examine the physical infrastructure requirements to realise this shift, which includes the establishment of ‘Neighbourhood Health Centres’ in every community. It will explore whether current estate plans, funding and leasing systems, and delivery models are suitable, as well as the risks and opportunities of Public-Private Partnerships. This includes lessons from past models such as PFI.

The inquiry will assess how existing NHS buildings can be repurposed, the role of new builds, and the use of non-NHS spaces to deliver the community-based care. It will consider the needs of all communities, including those in rural or underserved areas.

The Committee invites written evidence from Friday 12 December until 11.59pm on Friday 13 February.

The Government has asked the HCLG Committee to investigate whether the proposed reforms in the draft Bill will be effective, and what changes the Government could make to improve the draft Bill before the final version is introduced to Parliament. You can find out more about draft Bills and the pre-legislative scrutiny process on the UK Parliament website. 

The Committee will hold a series of oral evidence sessions starting in March 2026. Later in the spring, the Committee will publish its findings in a report with conclusions and recommendations to the Government. 

As part this short inquiry, the Committee is encouraging leaseholders and other home owners who pay private estate charges to fill out our online survey. Responses will form part of the report to the Government and extracts from individual responses may be included in it anonymously. 

New Ombudsman Paula Sussex CBE has been in post since August 2025 and the Committee plans to hold an oral evidence session with her and other senior leaders soon. The Committee is keen to examine the organisation’s priorities under new leadership, with the new corporate strategy due to be published soon, as well as its performance in handling individual complaints and utilising data to identify wider potential concerns in public sector administration.

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SOC covers a range of crimes, including child sexual exploitation and abuse; illegal drugs trafficking; fraud; money laundering; organised immigration crime; modern slavery and human trafficking and cybercrime. Annually, SOC is estimated to cost the UK at least £47 billion.

There are estimated to be over 75 organisations involved in protecting the public and tackling SOC, including law enforcement and criminal justice bodies; the UK intelligence community; Government departments; local authorities; regulatory and professional bodies; and overseas law enforcement agencies.

In January 2026 the Government published a White Paper on police reform: From Local to National: A New Model for Policing.  In it, the Government commits to “ensur[ing] that local police forces are equipped to make their local communities safer” while “introducing a new approach to national policing that protects us all.” Key proposals outlined include a new national police force - the National Police Service (NPS). This will incorporate the National Crime Agency, which currently leads on SOC, and include new Regional Crime Hubs. The White Paper also proposes the reorganisation of existing forces into fewer regional forces and the introduction of Local Policing Areas (LPAs) with responsibility for neighbourhood policing.

This inquiry will examine the extent of the linkage between SOC and neighbourhood crime and explore the capacity of neighbourhood policing to support the wider police response to SOC. It will investigate the extent to which the new structures outlined in the White Paper will support the role of neighbourhood policing in tackling SOC on high streets and in local communities, with the aim of ensuring that local, regional and national approaches to SOC work together effectively and are resourced appropriately.

Individual cases 

In line with the general practice of select committees the Home Affairs Committee is not able to take up individual cases; nor will it investigate individual police forces.

The IOPC is independent of the police, government and interest groups, and is able to investigate the most sensitive allegations involving the police in England and Wales. The IOPC can be contacted at: We are the Independent Office for Police Conduct | Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).

Legal cases 

We can’t publish submissions that mention ongoing legal cases. Please do not include details of an ongoing case, or details that are likely to be the subject of future proceedings, in your submission. 

Safeguarding 

If your evidence raises any safeguarding concerns about you, or other people, then the Committee has a responsibility to raise these with the appropriate safeguarding authority. 

If you have immediate safeguarding concerns about yourself or someone else, please contact the Police on 999.

Signposting

We understand that the issues raised in this work may be sensitive or upsetting. Victim Support provides independent, free and confidential advice for people who need help after crime. Report Fraud is the place to tell the police about cyber crime and fraud.

After long consultation, the Government indicated last year that it does not intend to undertake wholesale reform toward a model of locational pricing. But it has not set out its thinking or research on the range of possible individual reforms to the current system, that could break down some of the blocks and inefficiencies in the current market (see the Committee’s ongoing inquiry on the Cost of Energy for more work on those).

Progressive vs wholesale reform

The Committee is now inviting evidence on the range of possible reforms open to Government to implement and their impacts on reaching the UK’s twin goals of 95% clean energy generation by 2030 and bringing down energy bills.

This inquiry is building on the Committee’s previous evidence session on cross-border healthcare to explore in greater depth the issues affecting patients. It will look at the progress that has been made with cross-border healthcare arrangements as well as identify areas of improvement. It will also seek to address the impact of recent policy healthcare announcements on cross-border healthcare arrangements.

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