HC Deb 23 May 1968 vol 765 cc132-3W
Mr. Peter Walker

asked the Minister of Transport whether he will summarise the work of his Department on the lines of the example given in the case of the Home Office in paragraph 34 of the Centre for Administrative Studies Occasional Paper No. 4, published by Her Majesty's Treasury.

Mr. Marples

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will summarise the work of his Department on the lines of the example given in the case of the Home Office in paragraph 34 of the Centre for Administrative Studies Occasional Paper No. 4, published by Her Majesty's Treasury.

Mr. Roy Jenkins

I have been asked to reply.

The "output budgeting" technique described in this Paper, and already applied to defence, shows promise as a means of achieving better use of resources in the civil field also. Studies of the feasibility of applying it to certain major civil programmes are in progress in several Departments, including the Ministry of Transport. I doubt whether it would be rewarding at this stage to prepare as further examples the summaries referred to.