§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Deputy Prime Minister what his Department's response is to the recommendation of the NAO report on modern policy making that ongoing benchmarking of Departments should be undertaken. [43113]
§ Mr. LeslieBenchmarking is a powerful tool to support performance improvement, which can be applied in a wide range of ways. One approach is to compare the performance of an organisation against an ideal, in order to identify areas for improvement. This approach has been adopted for he Departmental Change Programme, being developed by the Office of Public Services Reform in the Cabinet Office. Departments will be reviewed against a model of high performance, which includes a module on policy making, to inform he generation and implementation of an integrated change programme.