HC Deb 23 April 2002 vol 384 cc219-20W
Mr. Bercow

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what recent assessment he has made of whether the PSA target for completions of accredited offender behaviour programmes in prison will be met; [47224]

(2) what recent assessment he has made of whether the PSA target for completions of accredited offender behaviour programmes for sex offenders will be met; [47225]

(3) what recent assessment he has made of whether the PSA target for the number of prisoners participating in treatment programmes will be met by March. [47221]

Beverley Hughes

[holding answer 10 April 2002]: The relevant public service agreements (PSA) performance target is that the Prison Service should increase the number of completions of accredited offending behaviour programmes from 3,000 to 6,000 by the end of 2001–02, including an increase from 680 to 1,100 in those completing sex offender treatment programmes.

The Service also has a key performance target (KPT) of ensuring 5,000 entrants per year to drug treatment programmes by March 2002.

Final outturns will be known by the end of April 2002.

Mr. Bercow

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the target has been in each of the last five years for efficiency savings as a percentage of total running costs for each of the non-departmental public bodies for which he is responsible; and if the target was met. [49631]

Angela Eagle

Details of performance and efficiency targets agreed between executive non-departmental public bodies and their sponsor departments, and performance against these targets are available in each individual body's annual report. All annual reports are presented to Parliament and copies placed in the Library. The majority of bodies have also posted recent annual reports on their websites.

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