Performance Tracker Autumn 2017 launch presentation

Performance TrackerAutumn 2017

Dr Emily AndrewsSenior ResearcherInstitute for Government

A reactive spending cycle

• Missing warning signs

• Allowing problems to mount

• Diverting emergency cash to the front line

• No clear strategy for what comes next

Health and social care Law and order

Schools

Neighbourhood services

UKVI

2010 2015

2010 2015 2017

The 2010 Spending Review was initially

successful

But pressures started to emerge in the run-up to

2015

A reactive cycle of emergency cash

injections emerges

• control spending

• maintain scope andquality

• control spending

• “world-class public services”

Cash now

prisons hospitals

Plan now

adult social care

schools

Inform now

police

neighbourhood services

Track now

GPs Criminal courts

Cash now: Prisons

Cash now: Prisons

Cash now: Prisons

Cash now: Hospitals

Cash now: Hospitals

3.9 millionrecorded waiting list for treatment for non-urgent conditions (as of July 2017)

Cash now: Hospitals

Plan now: Adult social care

Plan now: Adult social care

Plan now: Schools

Cash now

prisons hospitals

Plan now

adult social care

schools

Inform now

police

neighbourhood services

Inform now: Neighbourhood services

Inform now: Police

Inform now: Police

Inform now: UKVI

Inform now: UKVI

Inform now: UKVI

Inform now: UKVI

Track now

GPs Criminal courts

Track now: GPs

Cash now

prisons hospitals

Plan now

adult social care

schools

Inform now

police

neighbourhood services

Track now

GPs Criminal courts

Government should:

• Track

• Publish

• Scrutinise

Performance TrackerAutumn 2017

Dr Emily AndrewsSenior ResearcherInstitute for Government