HC Deb 03 May 2000 vol 349 cc144-5W
Helen Jones

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what targets he has set the Pesticide Safety Directorate for 2000–01. [120977]

Mr. Nick Brown

I have set the Pesticide Safety Directorate the following performance targets for 2000–01:

Quality of Service

  1. (1). To deliver the throughput of applications and processing times set out in the plan.
  2. (2) To deliver high quality policy advice to Ministers and respond positively to their policy objectives.
  3. (3) To deliver high quality scientific work.
  4. (4) To respond positively to the results of the Customer Satisfaction Survey.

Efficiency (5) To meet the efficiency indicator targets in the agreed Efficiency Plan.

Financial Performance (6) To recover from industry and Government the full economic cost (calculated according to the resource accosting principles) of its services. (7) To operate within 95 per cent. and 100 per cent. of allocations by the MAFF Management Board for running costs, capital and receipts.

Technical Secretariat
Application type Planned receipts Planned completions Processing time (weeks)
Normal 320 350 39
Departmental Normal 10 10 48
Experimental Permit 5 5 26
Departmental Experimental Permit 5 5 48
Extrapolated Experimental Approval 10 10 13
Emergency Off Label 25 25 10
Non-emergency Off Label 40 40 32
Fast 220 220 13
Parallel Imports 50 50 10
Administrative Fast 550 550 4
Post Annex 1 Approvals 55 55 —
Mutual Recognition 5 5 26
Other 5 30 —
Total 1,300 1,355 —
Total of tables 1 & 2 1,358 1,418 190
1 Overall targets—90 per cent. of applications with a stated processing time must be completed within that time