§ Lord BachMy right honourable friend the Minister of State for Defence (Mr Adam Ingram) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.
Key targets have been set for the chief executive of the Defence Storage and Distribution Agency (DSDA) for financial year 2004–05. The targets are as follows:
Key Target 1
To meet the customers' requirements as negotiated and agreed in business agreements (BAs). This key target is broken down into two sub-targets:
Key target 1a: For explosive materiel; to supply 95 per cent of available maintained munitions within demand timescales.
Key target 1b: 95 per cent of the number of issues of non-explosive materiel to consumers, as forecast and agreed in BAs, to meet that element of the supply chain pipeline time (SCPT) for which DSDA has a responsibility.
Key target 1c: To process within limits, agreed with each individual customer, 98 per cent of all receipts that conform to the specifications laid down in the contract and/or materiel regulations.
Key Target 2
To achieve an average 5 per cent reduction in the unit cost of output.
Key Target 3
The value of inventory written off as a result of DSDA's actions to be less than the levels agreed with each business agreement. This key target is broken down into two sub-targets:
68WSKey target 3a: The value of explosive materiel written off as a result of DSDA's action to be less than 0.02 per cent.
Key Target 3b: The value of non-explosive materiel written off as a result of DSDA's action to be less than levels agreed within each specific customer supplier agreement.