Public Service Agreement Targets (Hansard, 11 December 2001)

§ Mr. Bercow

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) if he will make a statement on the public service and service delivery agreements developed in the corporate serving directorate of his Department in 2000–01; [19265]

(2) if he will make a statement on progress towards the public service agreement target for access to funded second pensions; [19044]

(3) if he will make a statement on progress since the publication of the Departmental report 2001 towards the public service agreement target for the payment by the Department for goods and services; [19005]

(4) if he will make a statement on progress towards the public service agreement target for the completion of a new assessment of liability to pay child support maintenance; [19017]

(5) if he will make a statement on the public service agreement target for the ratio of in-work income from earnings and benefits to out-of-work benefits in 2001–02; [19033]

(6) if he will make a statement on progress towards the public service agreement target for the delivery of the new deals for the unemployed lone parents and disabled people;[19037]

(7) if he will make a statement on progress towards the public service agreement target for the level of compliance by absent parents with agreed child support arrangements; [19048]

(8) if he will make a statement on progress towards the public service agreement target for investment in modernisation; [19013]

(9) if he will make a statement on progress towards the public service agreement target for minimising the regulatory burden on employers in respect of pension and child support arrangements; [19021]

(10) if he will make a statement on progress towards the public service agreement target for the provision of an electronic claiming facility for benefit claimants; [19029]

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(11) if he will make a statement on progress towards the public service agreement target of achieving an accuracy rate for assessments and reviews in child support cases of not less than 90 per cent; [19046]

(12) if he will make a statement on progress towards the public service agreement target for the achievement of an annual efficiency gain; [19011]

(13) if he will make a statement on performance in (a) 2000–01 and (b) 2001–02 against the public service agreement target for average pensioner income as a percentage of average earnings; [19019]

(14) if he will make a statement on progress towards the public service agreement target for reducing the average cost of processing retirement pension claims; [19027]

(15) if he will make a statement on progress towards meeting the public service agreement target for reducing losses from fraud and error; [19035]

(16) if he will make a statement on the progress towards meeting the public service agreement target for the percentage of Benefits Agency customers whose benefits are paid into their bank accounts; [19031]

(17) if he will make a statement on progress towards the public service agreement target for the reduction of the number of children in households with no-one in work; [19042]

(18) if he will make a statement on progress towards the public service agreement target for reducing the number of children in poverty by at least a quarter by 2004; [19078]

(19) if he will make a statement on progress towards the public service agreement target for the reduction of sickness absence rates by 2003; [19003]

(20) if he will make a statement on progress towards the public service agreement target for the development of better measures of efficiency; [19023]

(21) if he will make a statement on progress towards the public service agreement target for access for disabled people with broken work records to second pensions; [19045]

(22) if he will make a statement on progress towards the public service agreement target for the reduction by March 2002 of benefit losses from fraud and error; [19010]

(23) if he will make a statement on progress towards the public service agreement target for increasing the collection of maintenance from non-resident parents who pay the CSA's collection service; [19018]

(24) if he will make a statement on progress towards meeting the public service agreement target for the reduction of the average cost of processing minimum income guarantee claims and the maintenance of the caseload; [19026]

(25) if he will make a statement on progress towards meeting the public service agreement target for value for money; [19034]

(26) if he will make a statement on progress towards the public service agreement target for the percentage of departmental business transactions to be carried out electronically; [19014]

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(27) if he will make a statement on progress towards the public service agreement target for the provision of pension forecasts by employers and pension providers; [19022]

(28) if he will make a statement on progress towards the public service agreement target for the establishment of payment arrangements in child support cases; [19047]

(29) if the Benefits Agency met its target to contribute to the reduction in public sector sickness by reducing absences by 10 per cent. from 1998 public service agreement baseline levels; [18993]

(30) if he will make a statement on progress towards the public service agreement target for the control of central costs and overheads; [19012]

(31) if he will make a statement on progress towards the public service agreement target for changing the ratio of public expenditure to private expenditure on pensions; [19020]

(32) if he will make a statement on progress towards the public service agreement target for the roll-out of new IT equipment to staff of the Benefits Agency and the Child Support Agency; [19028]

(33) if he will make a statement on progress towards meeting the public service agreement target for reducing by 2002 the number of lone parents dependent on income support; [19036]

(34) if he will make a statement on progress towards the public service agreement target for the reduction of the amount of money that is incorrectly paid in minimum income guarantee; [19024]

(35) if he will make a statement on progress towards the public service agreement target for the modernisation of service delivery; [19032]

(36) if he will make a statement on progress towards the public service agreement target for increasing employment rates of disadvantaged areas and groups; [19043]

(37) if he will make a statement on progress towards the public service agreement target for the speed and extent of access to occupational health and rehabilitation services; [19004]

(38) if he will make a statement on progress towards the public service agreement target for the transition into work and reduction of dependence on benefits of people with disabilities. [19016]