§ Lord Dubsasked Her Majesty's Government:
What targets they have set the Veterinary Medicines Directorate for 2000–01. [HL2280]
§ Baroness HaymanMy right honourable friend the Minister has set the Veterinary Medicines Directorate the following performance targets for 2000–01.
Safety and Quality
1. To provide high quality scientific assessment work.
2. To provide high quality policy advice to Ministers.
3. To comply with the timetables for entering Suspected Adverse Reactions (SAR) reports set out in the Plan and to report to the Veterinary Products Committee each quarter reviewing trends in SAR reports and identifying areas requiring evaluation.
4. To meet, in full, the requirements of the National Residues Surveillance Plan.
Standards of Service
5. To comply with the timetables for handling applications under the centralised, decentralised and UK procedures set out in the Plan.
Efficiency
6. To collect data for 2000–01 as the base year that will enable efficiency changes to be calculated in 2001–02.
Financial Control
7. To recover from industry and Government the full economic cost (calculated according to resource accounting principles) of its main business activities of:
- licensing and surveillance;
- policy work;
- residue monitoring;
- as a whole, without cross subsidy between these activities.
8. To operate within 95 per cent to 100 per cent of allocations by the MAFF Management Board for running costs, capital and receipts.