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Progress In Improving Government Efficiency

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Author : Great Britain: National Audit Office
language : en
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Release Date : 2006-02-17

Progress In Improving Government Efficiency written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and has been published by The Stationery Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-02-17 with Business & Economics categories.

Government departments have been set targets for implementing efficiency gains of £21.5 billion a year by 2007-08, as part of the Treasury's Efficiency Programme following on from the recommendations of the Gershon Review of public sector efficiency (available at http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk./spending_review/spend_sr04/associated_documents/spending_sr04_efficiency.cfm) published in July 2004. This NAO report examines the progress made towards improving efficiency and highlights examples of good practice from which departments and the wider public sector can learn. A companion volume of case studies is available separately (HCP 802-II, session 2005-06, ISBN 0102937095). The report finds that good progress is being made towards achieving the £21.5 billion target and departments are managing their efficiency programmes well. However, some caution is needed in assessing the gains reported so far (due to the time lags in reporting of data and limitations in measurement methodologies) and therefore these should be considered provisional and subject to further verification. Six key areas are highlighted for future improvements in public sector efficiency, including in relation to strategic leadership, staff expertise and greater collaboration to share good practice across the public sector.

Government Efficiency Effectiveness And Performance Improvement Act Of 2010

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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010

Government Efficiency Effectiveness And Performance Improvement Act Of 2010 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Administrative agencies categories.

The 2006 Budget

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Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Treasury Committee
language : en
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Release Date : 2006-05-02

The 2006 Budget written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Treasury Committee and has been published by The Stationery Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-02 with Political Science categories.

2006 Budget : Fourth report of session 2005-06, Vol. 2: Oral and written Evidence

Memorandum On The 2012 Civil Service Reform Plan

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Author : Great Britain: National Audit Office
language : en
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Release Date : 2013-01-24

Memorandum On The 2012 Civil Service Reform Plan written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and has been published by The Stationery Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-24 with Political Science categories.

The government published its Civil Service Reform Plan (the Plan) in June 2012 (www.civilservice.gov.uk/reform). It followed the publication of the 2011 Open Public Services White Paper (Cm.8145, ISBN 9780101814522) which called for a smaller, more strategic civil service that does less centrally, and commissions more from outside. The Plan has many themes in common with previous initiatives that attempted to reform the civil service, and adapt it to the changing needs of governments and public service users, but is arguably the broadest such reform programme since 1968. This Memorandum is intended primarily to inform the Committee's discussions with the leadership of the civil service about the Plan. Given that the Plan is less than a year old, it is not an evaluation of the reforms in the Plan, the progress made against them, or the implementation arrangements in place. It is designed to support the Committee to engage with the breadth of the Plan, so that they can use their influence to help ensure that its implementation improves efficiency, reinforces Parliamentary accountability and protects value for taxpayers and citizens. The Civil Service, in its present form as of 2012, employs 459,000 people across 106 departments and other bodies. The annual spend on Civil Service pay is £16 billion. The projected cost reduction for the Civil Service, between 2010 to 2015 is £80 billion and the projected reduction in the number of full-time equivalent civil servants over the same period is 110,000 representing about 23% of total staff.

Budget 2006

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Author : Great Britain. Treasury
language : en
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Release Date : 2006-03-22

Budget 2006 written by Great Britain. Treasury and has been published by The Stationery Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03-22 with Business & Economics categories.

The Budget sets out the Government's plans for taxation, public spending and economic growth for the coming year. Details announced include: an annual growth rate of 2.5 per cent for 2006-07 with a forecast of 2.75 to 3.25 per cent for 2007-08; an inflation rate of two per cent this year; and public sector borrowing on course for a £16bn surplus over the economic cycle ending in 2010-11, with net borrowing set at £37 billion for this year and £36 billion next year, falling to £23 billion in the year to 2010-11. Measures announced in the 2006 Budget include: i) the climate change levy to be indexed in line with inflation from 2007, a new vehicle excise duty rate of £210 for the least fuel efficient cars (4x4 cars or SUVs) and the establishment of a new £1bn energy and environmental research institute funded by government and private industry; ii) measures to help to single parents into work and tackle child poverty including an increase in child benefit, child tax credit and childcare vouchers and a top-up to child trust fund accounts at the age of seven; iii) an increase in duty of nine pence on cigarettes and one pence on beer, with a freeze in duty on whisky and other spirits; iv) the exemption on stamp duty raised to £125,000 and a rise in the level of inheritance tax from £275,000 to £325,000; v) the level of investment in schools to rise from £5.6 billion to £8 billion a year; vi) free off peak national bus travel for pensioners in every part of the country; and vii) funding, in partnership with commercial sponsorship, to support top athletes to prepare for the 2012 Olympics.

The 2006 Pre Budget Report

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Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Treasury Committee
language : en
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Release Date : 2007-01-25

The 2006 Pre Budget Report written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Treasury Committee and has been published by The Stationery Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-25 with Business & Economics categories.

This report from the Treasury Committee examines the recent economic analysis and assessment of the UK economy as outlined in the 2006 pre-budget report, and sets out a number of conclusions and recommendations, including: the Committee welcomes the recent rise in the growth rate of business investment, but with the caveat that the downside risk as highlighted in a previous weakness for business investment, remains unexplained; that several risks exist around the consumption growth forecast, including the potential of house prices to fall, and the increase of personal insolvency; the employment rate rise is commended, but a lack of migration statistics in relation to the labour market, means an overall assessment is not possible; although an improved forecast for economic growth in 2006, the Treasury has not forecast an improvement in the fiscal position; the Government appears to be on track to meet the golden rule in the current economic cycle, but will start the next economic cycle with its current budget in deficit; the Committee recommends also that the Treasury, in future Budgets and Pre-Budget reports provide a fuller explanation of its current forecast of the start and end dates of the current economic cycle; also, future Budget and Pre-Budget reports should provide a breakdown of reported efficiency gains by department, and further to enhance transparency and enable effective scrutiny, the Treasury should require departments in their departmental annual reports and Autumn Performance reports in 2007 and in later years to provide consistent and comprehensive information on progress against efficiency targets; the Committee expressed dissatisfaction at the lateness and vagueness of information in relation to expenditure on education, but approved the early announcement of capital spending plans for education up to 2010-11; the Committee though does welcome the Government's decision to commission and publish a range of reviews informing future economic policy, including tax policy; the Pre-Budget report is seen as an effective instrument of fiscal consultation, but this could be enhanced if Parliament and the public were given greater notice of the date of the report, perhaps 4 weeks before the statement is due to be made; where tax changes carry significant risk of forestalling activity or distorting market behaviour, such as the unusual timing and implementation of the increases in Air Passenger Duty, the Committee feels, as a general rule, that those increases should not come into force until the House of Commons has had an opportunity to come to a formal decision on such an increase.

The Efficiency And Reform Group S Role In Improving Public Sector Value For Money

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Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts
language : en
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Release Date : 2011-10-11

The Efficiency And Reform Group S Role In Improving Public Sector Value For Money written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts and has been published by The Stationery Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-11 with Business & Economics categories.

The Efficiency and Reform Group (the Group) was established within the Cabinet Office in May 2010 to lead efforts to cut government spending by £6 billion in 2010-11. Its long term aim is to improve value for money across government by strengthening the central coordination of measures to improve efficiency. The imperative to make savings in the short term has involved the Group imposing new controls on departments, such as moratoria on certain expenditure. Sustained efficiency improvements, though, will need a much deeper change to both the culture and institutional structure of government. The Group also needs to clear up confusion over who is accountable for what in terms of improving value for money, especially in defining its responsibilities and those of the Treasury and individual departments. The Group's actions have resulted in efficiency savings of £3.75 billion across departments in 2010-11. It should continue to describe any future spending reductions accurately and explain any impact on services. The scale of the challenge to deliver efficiencies is huge: the Government intends that half of the £81 billion reduction in spending planned over the next three years should come from efficiencies rather than through cuts to services or delays to important projects. Many of the efficiencies must be achieved in areas where the Group currently has a limited influence, or by local bodies, where it has none. The Group should set out how it will operate to ensure that its approach can be replicated across the wider public sector.

A Vision And Implementation Strategy For Improved Customer Oriented Service Delivery

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995

A Vision And Implementation Strategy For Improved Customer Oriented Service Delivery written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Administrative agencies categories.

Progress In Improving Government Efficiency

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Author : Great Britain. National Audit Office
language : en
Publisher: Stationery Office/Tso
Release Date : 2006

Progress In Improving Government Efficiency written by Great Britain. National Audit Office and has been published by Stationery Office/Tso this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Business & Economics categories.

Government departments have been set targets for implementing efficiency gains of £21.5 billion a year by 2007-08, as part of the Treasury's Efficiency Programme following on from the recommendations of the Gershon Review of public sector efficiency (available at http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/media/B2C/11/efficiency_review120704) published in July 2004. This NAO report sets out eight case studies which highlight examples of good practice in improving efficiency gains drawn from both the public and private sectors. These include the lessons learned from efficiency programmes undertaken by the Canadian and German governments to improve public services; local council strategies in Southwark and Merton; as well as initiatives implemented by companies such as BT and Asda Wal-Mart. The main report, which examines the progress made across government so far towards achieving efficiency targets, is available separately (HCP 802-I, session 2005-06, ISBN 0102937087).

Update On Pfi Debt Refinancing And The Pfi Equity Market

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Author : Great Britain: National Audit Office
language : en
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Release Date : 2006-04-21

Update On Pfi Debt Refinancing And The Pfi Equity Market written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and has been published by The Stationery Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-21 with Business & Economics categories.

Findings from this NAO report include that the government has secured gains of £137 million from Private Finance Initiative (PFI) debt refinancings under new arrangements introduced by the Treasury in 2002 (including £102 million from four large refinancings (one of the London Underground contracts and three hospital projects: Norfolk and Norwich, Darent Valley and Bromley). The NAO found that the new sharing arrangements through a voluntary Code appear to be generally working well but there have been exceptions, for example in three road projects the public sector missed out on at least £1.7 million because gains were not shared in accordance with the voluntary code. The report also describes the emergence of the PFI secondary market which is enabling equity investors in PFI projects to sell their shares on to new investors.