Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 3 May 2006.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what baseline figures he is using for assessing progress on his Department's targets to (a) modernise transactional processes, (b) make savings in procurement processes and (c) modernise and streamline back office functions of finance and human resources shared service functions; what progress has been made towards these targets to date; and what the total efficiency savings achieved to date are for these targets.
The target for financial savings from the Department in the Spending Review 2004 was not linked directly to particular functional groups but rather illustrated categories of activity that would be planned to contribute to the total from changes planned in the Department. Based on our current planning assumptions, we expect that just under one half of our financial savings will come from improvements in transactional processing, around one quarter will come from the direct payment of benefits to customers, over one quarter of savings will come from improvements in central services and around one tenth from improved value for money in procurement. These assumptions are subject to change as plans develop to ensure that we maintain and improve customer services and achieve our PSA and efficiency targets.
Total efficiency savings made by DWP in 2004–05 are estimated at some £300 million.
These early savings are an encouraging indication of DWPs ability to meet the efficiency target set for the department in the 2004 Spending Review (being £962 million of annual efficiency savings by 2007–08 against our spending in 2003–04).
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