§ Lord BachMy honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence (Mr Ivor Caplin) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.
The following key targets have been set for the chief executive of the Defence Medical Education and Training Agency (DMETA) for the financial year 2004–05:
Key Target 1: Deployable Personnel
To meet 100 per cent of the commander in chief's requirements for secondary care personnel under DMETA command for operational deployments.
Key Target 2: Military Training
To ensure that 80 per cent of all DMETA personnel, whose medical category permits, achieve their service's annual mandatory individual military training.
Key Target 3: Training Success
a. Initial Training (Phase 2).
To provide initial training (phase 2) that meets the requirements, professional standards and timescales defined by the single services.
b. Career, Professional and Continuation Training (Phase 3).
To provide career, professional and continuation training (phase 3) that meets the requirements, professional standards and timescales defined by the single services.
Key Target 4: Efficiency and Cost Management
a. DMETA Estate
Ensure the rationalisation and efficient usage of the current DMETA estate, reducing the balance sheet value of the estate as at 1 April 2003 by at least 50 per cent by 2010, thereby reducing the cost of training.
61WSb. Cost Measurement
To develop an output cost-based methodology for efficiency and unit cost performance measurement for implementation by April 2005.
Key Target 5: Customer Focus
To develop and implement by 1 April 2005 a measure of the extent to which customers value the quality of DMETA outputs.