Intervention Board (Hansard, 13 July 1995)

§ Mr. Sykes
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he has completed the three-year review of the Intervention Board executive agency, and if he will make a statement. [34471]

§ Mr. Douglas Hogg
My right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for Scotland and for Wales and my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and I have considered and approved a full evaluation of the Intervention Board executive agency, which has been operating as an executive agency since April 1990 in accordance with the Government's commitment to evaluate next steps agencies. The evaluation concluded that the agency successfully met its objectives in its first three years of operation and should continue for a further five years, at which time another evaluation will take place. I have today placed in the Library copies of the agency's evaluation and framework documents.

§ Mr. Sykes
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how the Intervention Board performed against its targets for 1994–5; and what key performance targets Agriculture Ministers have set the agency for 1995–96. [34472]

§ Mr. Douglas Hogg
The Intervention Board's performance against its key targets in 1994–95 was as follows:

1994–95

Target (per cent.) Performance (per cent.)

Percentage of claims processed within deadlines 98.5 99.9

Percentage of claims processed correctly 98.5 98.7

Cumulative running cost of efficiency gains 2.5 3.6

Improvement in index of productivity 6.0 -0.5

Ratio of disallowance to EAGGF funds handled 0.4 0.96

To maintain expenditure within vote provision cash and running cost limits — Met

New value for money saving in procurement of goods and services 5.0 6.7

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In agreement with my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for Scotland and for Wales and my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. I have set the following targets for 1995–96:

Target (per cent.)

Percentage of claims processed with deadlines 98.5

Percentage of claims processed correctly 98.5

Cumulative running cost efficiency gains 2.5

Improvement in index of productivity 6.0

Ration of disallowance to EAGGF funds handled 0.40

To maintain expenditure within vote provision, cash and running cost limits

New value for money savings procurement of goods and services 6.0

Yield: cost ratio of anti-fraud activites 3.0:1.0

1994–95
	Target (per cent.)	Performance (per cent.)
Percentage of claims processed within deadlines	98.5	99.9
Percentage of claims processed correctly	98.5	98.7
Cumulative running cost of efficiency gains	2.5	3.6
Improvement in index of productivity	6.0	-0.5
Ratio of disallowance to EAGGF funds handled	0.4	0.96
To maintain expenditure within vote provision cash and running cost limits	—	Met
New value for money saving in procurement of goods and services	5.0	6.7

	Target (per cent.)
Percentage of claims processed with deadlines	98.5
Percentage of claims processed correctly	98.5
Cumulative running cost efficiency gains	2.5
Improvement in index of productivity	6.0
Ration of disallowance to EAGGF funds handled	0.40
To maintain expenditure within vote provision, cash and running cost limits
New value for money savings procurement of goods and services	6.0