§ Lord Gainfordasked Her Majesty's Government:
What key targets have been set for the Hydrographic Office defence support agency in 1993–94.
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence (Viscount Cranborne)The Chief of Fleet Support, acting as the owner of the agency on behalf of my right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Defence under the terms of the agency's Framework Document, has set the following key targets for this financial year.
On quality of service, the chief executive is required to continue to ensure that all urgent dangers to navigation are promulgated by radio navigational warnings within 20 hours of receipt of the information. He is also required to improve the state of revision of Admiralty navigational charts and publications in waters of UK national responsibility so that at 1st April 1994 80 per cent. will have been revised, or reviewed and found to need no revision, within the previous 10 years. The chief executive is 19WA also required to achieve his endorsed and funded programme of work as set by the MoD Hydrographic Board.
In respect of financial targets, the chief executive is to seek to minimise the level of Exchequer support by achieving 72 per cent. cost recovery.