Building Research Establishment

HC Deb 06 November 1992 vol 213 c456W

Mrs. Roe

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish key performance targets for the Building Research Establishment.

Mr. Baldry

The Building Research Establishment has been an executive agency since 2 April 1990. The following key targets have been set for 1992–93:

• —£19,000 net contribution to the Exchequer
• —income to cover full economic costs on a trading basis
• —non-Exchequer component to be 9.4 per cent. of total net income from research commissions
• —a new unit cost ratio for research and technical consultancy commissions to be applied. (The ratio is a measure of the agency's overhead costs.)