§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the(a) cost and (b) saving has been from the Department's pursuit of Service Delivery Agreement targets in each year since they were introduced. [61646]
§ Ms HewittSDA targets are set as an integral part of the Spending Review process. It is difficult to say for the majority of the Department's SDA targets how the Department's expenditure would have differed or no targets been set. Further analysis on the costs and savings of specific targets could only be undertaken at disproportionate cost.
§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what has been the(a) cost and (b) saving from the pursuit of the Department's Public Service Agreement targets in each year since they were introduced. [61040]
§ Ms HewittInformation on Departmental expenditure by Public Service Agreement (PSA) objective can be found in the Department's annually published Consolidated Resource Accounts, copies of which are available in the Libraries of the House for years up to 2000–01. Information on costs incurred in working towards individual PSA targets is not available.
PSA targets are set as an integral part of the Spending Review process. It is not possible to say how the Department's expenditure would have differed had different, or no, targets been adopted. As a result, additional costs or savings resulting from pursuing PSA targets cannot be specified, although one of DTI's current PSA targets requires the Department to achieve an annual 2.5 per cent. improvement in value for money, including through savings.