HL Deb 04 May 1999 vol 600 cc75-6WA
Lord Hardy of Wath

asked Her Majesty's Government:

What performance targets they have set the Pesticides Safety Directorate for 1999–2000. [HL2271]

Lord Donoughue

We have set the Pesticides Safety Directorate the following performance targets for 1999–2000.

Quality of Service

  1. 1. To deliver the throughput of applications and processing times set out in the table that follows this list.
  2. 2. To deliver high quality policy advice to Ministers and respond to their policy objectives.
  3. 3. To deliver high quality scientific work.
  4. 4. To conduct a customer satisfaction survey and respond positively to the results.
  5. People
  6. 5. To maintain Investors in People accreditation.
  7. Efficiency
  8. 6. To develop new efficiency indicators that will apply from 1 April 2000.
  9. Financial Performance
  10. 7. To recover from industry and government the full economic cost (calculated according to accruals accounting) of its services.
  11. 8. To operate within 95 per cent. and 100 per cent. of allocations by the MAFF Management Board for running costs, capital and receipts.

New Substances and Reviews
Application Type Planned receipts Planned completions Processing time (weeks)
New Active Substances
Sift 13 16 21
Evaluation 20 12 52
Reviews—UK
UK anticholinesterase review programme—full reviews 28 4 —
Other UK review activity 17 24 —
Reviews—EC
EU rapporteur reviews — — —
Position on Annex 1 decisions 20 15 —
Total 98 71 90%*

The figures for New Substances and Reviews are based on work in hand and forecasts from Industry and the Commission.

* Overall target—90% of applications with a stated processing time must be completed within that time.

Technical Secretariat
Application Type Planned receipts Planned completions Processing time (weeks)
Normal 320 370 40
Departmental Normal 10 10 50
Experimental Permit 5 5 26
Departmental
Experimental Permit 5 5 50
Extrapolated
Experimental Approval 10 10 15
Emergency Off Label 25 25 12
Non-emergency Off
Label 50 40 34
Fast 270 300 15
Administrative Fast 550 550 4
Post Annex 1 Approvals 55 55 —
Mutual Recognition 5 5 —
Other 5 50 —
Total 1,310 1,426 —
Total of Tables 1 & 2 1,408 1,496 90%*
* Overall target—90% of applications with a stated processing time must be completed within that time.