PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(12 February 2026)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the officer hours saved each year as a result of the rollout of the Right Care Right Person policy.
Asked by:
Chris Philp (Conservative)
Asked by:
Chris Philp (Conservative)
Answer
The Home Office and the Department for Health and Social Care published a joint evaluation on the implementation of the Right Care, Right Person in December 2024, which showed that RCRP has led to a reduction in calls and deployments to RCRP-related incidents following implementation, estimating a saving of c.370,000 police hours per year across the five forces covered by this aspect of the evaluation.
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