Labour 2024– government · 11 items

Government improvements

Every item here was selected by the same deterministic rules that produce the problems list. If an indicator improved, it is published here; the brief makes that mandatory.

• ON TRACK End the use of asylum hotels by the end of this Parliament · 65% of the required change achieved with 40% of the time elapsed.
• INDICATOR IMPROVED A long-term ambition of an 80% employment rate · No deadline, so direction only: from 74.5 (2024 Q2) to 75.1 (2026 Q2) against a target of 80.
• TARGET ACHIEVED The inflation target is 2% as measured by the 12-month increase in the Consumer Prices Index · Latest value within 1 of the 2 target in July 2026. Assessed period by period; earlier periods may differ.
• BACKLOG REDUCED Asylum claims awaiting an initial decision · 128,786 (2023) to 40,168 (Year ending June 2026).
• INDICATOR IMPROVED GDP per head, real terms · Up 1.0% from 2025 Q2 to 2026 Q2; a rise is treated as an improvement.
• INDICATOR IMPROVED Crime Survey estimate of all crime (excluding fraud) · Down 5.7% from Year ending March 2025 to Year ending March 2026; a fall is treated as an improvement.
• INDICATOR IMPROVED Homicide (police-recorded) · Down 7.4% from Year ending March 2025 to Year ending March 2026; a fall is treated as an improvement.
• INDICATOR IMPROVED Offences involving a knife or sharp instrument · Down 8.1% from Year ending March 2025 to Year ending March 2026; a fall is treated as an improvement.
• INDICATOR IMPROVED Persistent absence · Down 1.8points from 2023/24 academic year to 2024/25 academic year; a fall is treated as an improvement.
• INDICATOR IMPROVED Road deaths · Down 4.0% from 2024 to 2025; a fall is treated as an improvement.
• INDICATOR IMPROVED Asylum backlog · Down 55.8% from Year ending June 2025 to Year ending June 2026; a fall is treated as an improvement.

See also the problems. Rules: targets on the targets page; backlogs on the backlogs page; indicator bands on the trajectory page.