HC Deb 30 January 2002 vol 379 c402W
Matthew Taylor

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister if he will place in the Library details of the performance of the Cabinet Office in each year since 1999 for each Public Service Agreement listed in the document Cm 4181 Public Service Agreements 1999–2002 under the headings(a) performance targets and (b) increasing the productivity of operations; and if he will make a statement. [30206]

Mr. Leslie

Details of the performance of the Cabinet Office in each year since 1999 for each Public Service Agreement listed in the document Cm 4181 Public Service Agreements 1999–2002 pertaining to the Cabinet Office were reported in: Cabinet Office— The Government Expenditure Plans 2000–01 to 2001–02 Cm 4618; and Cabinet Office— The Government Expenditure Plans 2001–02 to 2003–04 Cm 5119. Copies of both publications are held in the House of Commons Library and are available via the Cabinet Office website.

Some of the Public Service Agreement targets listed in Cm 4181 which were agreed as part of the Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) were subsumed in new Public Service Agreements agreed as part of the 2000 Spending Review. These are detailed in Cm 5119.

The Cabinet Office Departmental Report for 2002 which will be published before the summer recess will also detail the Department's performance against its Public Service Agreement targets.

The Government Car and Despatch Agency (GDA), which is an executive agency of the Cabinet Office, and the Central Office of Information (COI), which is an executive agency and separate Government Department reporting to me/DPM, also have key performance targets.

The GCDA performance was reported in the agency's annual report and accounts for the financial year 2000–01, which were laid before Parliament on 17 July 2001.

Central Office of Information (COI) performance was reported in the agency's annual report and accounts for the financial year 2000–01, which were laid before Parliament on 20 July 2001.