HC Deb 31 July 1997 vol 299 cc463-4W
Dr. Iddon

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what key targets have been set for the Defence Clothing and Textiles Agency for 1997–98. [12325]

Dr. Reid

The chief executive of the Defence Clothing and Textiles Agency has been set the following key targets for 1997–98:

  1. 1. To achieve 80 per cent. demand satisfaction on presentation.
  2. 2. To obtain the works brief so that laboratories and workshops can be collocated by September 1999.
  3. 3. To complete a review of the scope for further private sector involvement.

These key targets take forward the work of the previous year's targets in the context of the agency's continuing collocation and restructuring plans. Collocation of the agency will ensure the agency remains in a position to benefit from opportunities for further rationalisation and provide the scope to reform activities which are essential to the achievement of the agency' s corporate and business plans. Given all the other pressures on the agency, particularly downward financial pressure, I believe they are challenging but achievable. I have previously arranged for copies of the agency's framework document to be placed in the Library of both Houses and the annual report and accounts for 1996–97 have also been so placed.