§ Sir Fergus MontgomeryTo ask the Attorney General if he will announce the key performance targets for executive agencies in his Department for 1994–95; and if he will make a statement.
§ The Attorney-GeneralI informed the House on 29 March,Official Report, columns 16–17, that I would be establishing the Government Property Lawyers as an executive agency of the Treasury Solicitor's Department on 1 April 1993.
The agency has had a successful first year. It has achieved the key performance targets which I set it. I congratulate the chief executive and his staff.
I have set the following targets for the agency which are similar to those for 1993–94 but contain significant improvements:
For 1994–95: to recover the full operating cost of the agency; to achieve 6,000 new instructions from its clients; to increase the number of completions effected to an average of 83 per case-holder, equivalent to a total of 6,050; to maintain and improve the quality of service, in particular by keeping the proportions of cases completed satisfactorily (i.e. without requiring rectification by reason of any fault of the agency) on or before the target date at or above 99.5 per cent.Over the three year period of the strategic plan: to achieve a steady reduction in operating costs of an average of 2.5 per cent. per year in real terms.I wish the chief executive and his staff a further successful year.