HC Deb 03 June 1997 vol 295 cc138-9W
Mr. David Stewart

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make a statement about performance targets for the Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency for 1997–98. [2011]

Mr. Dewar

For the financial year 1997–98 I have set the following targets:

  • Aerial surveillance percentage of hours flown on task: 85 per cent.
  • Aerial surveillance cost per aircraft sighting: £82
  • Marine surveillance utilisation of effective patrol days: 96 per cent.
  • cost per boarding: £2,685
  • Marine surveillance number of boardings at sea: 2,2001
  • Sea Fisheries inspectorate cost per logsheet check: £65
  • landing declarations checked against actual catches 40 per cent.
  • 80 per cent. of cases for prosecution to be reported within 6 weeks of offence being detected and 95 per cent. within 8 weeks
  • Number of cases where court proceedings are taken as percentage of offences reported to prosecuting authorities: 80 per cent.
  • 1This target is 400 less than that for 1996–97 and reflects the reduction from 300 to nil of Royal Navy patrol days contracted from the Ministry of Defence.

In order to ensure that the Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency uses its resources efficiently, I have set it a target to achieve cash releasing efficiency gains of 2.0 per cent. during 1996–97.

The Chief Executive will be directly accountable to me for the achievement of these targets, which will be reported in the Agency's Annual Report.