Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to improve the (a) efficiency and (b) response time of the Independent Office for Police Conduct.

The Home Office’s senior sponsorship board monitors the IOPC’s performance against key perform indicators. The targets include times taken to respond to referrals and to carry out independent investigations. Rolling twelve-month figures are published on the IOPC’s website. Home Office Ministers sign off on its (published) business plans and annual report. The IOPC itself has had a major transformation programme in place since 2024 to improve its efficiency and effectiveness. As announced in our Police Reform White Paper, published in January 2026, we intend to go further and, this year, will launch a external review of the end to end processes of police accountability, including the IOPC’s role, and with a focus on the question of timeliness.