HC Deb 20 July 1994 vol 247 cc378-9W
Mr. Hawkins

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what targets he has set for the Defence Research Agency in 1994–95.

Mr. Aitken

The targets recently set for the Defence Research Agency in 1994–95 and subsequent years are as follows:

  1. a. To meet profit and cash targets consistent with a 6 per cent. ROCE.
  2. b. To maintain overall utilisation at a level of 51 per cent.
  3. c. To reduce the total overhead expressed as a percentage of total variable costs from 15 per cent. at 1 April 1994 to 12 per cent. at 31 March 1995.
  4. d. To market test 4 per cent. of DRA's turnover; to achieve secondary competition amounting to 3 per cent. of turnover; and to achieve competition in subcontracts amounting to 6 per cent. of turnover.
  5. e. To maintain achievement on time of customers' milestones at the 1993–94 level of 85 per cent.
  6. f. From December 1993 survey baseline to achieve 2 per cent. improvement in overall performance by December 1994 and a 4 per cent. increase in the quality and project management measures.
  7. g. To have met by the 31 March 1995 all 1994–95 rationalisation project milestones as specified in BP94 and to have achieved a running cost reduction of £70 million per annum.
  8. h. To achieve a non-MOD income of £64 million in 1994–95.
  9. To achieve formal quality certification to 1S09000 for one sector by 31 December 1994.