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Performance Targets

Tony Wright: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if she will list the performance targets that her Department, its agencies and non-departmental public bodies are required to meet, apart from those set out in the public service agreements for 1999 to 2002 and 2001 to 2004; and if she will specify for each target (a) who sets it and (b) who monitors achievement against it. [60461]

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Ms Hewitt: Information on the Department's targets and priorities—including those in its Public Service and Service Delivery Agreements (both available on the Department's website)—and on how the Department is working towards them is contained in its annual Expenditure Plans Report, the next edition of which is to be published later this month covering 2002 to 2003–04. The targets are monitored as appropriate by the Department's Executive Board and Group Management Boards.

The performance of the Department's Executive non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs) are set out in the individual NDPB's annual reports, copies of which are available in the Libraries of the House (the first annual reports by the Gas and Electricity Consumer Council and the Consumer Council for Postal Services will be available in the Libraries of the House in the summer). Key performance targets are agreed by the Department and achievement against them is monitored by the relevant sponsor directorate within the Department. Ministers are currently considering with the nine regional development agencies a range of new targets for their single budget which will be finalised with the agencies later this year.

I have asked the chief executives of the Department's agencies to write direct to the hon. Member.

Letter from Roger Heathcote to Mr. Tony Wright, dated 11 July 2002:











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Letter from Mike Goddard to Mr. Tony Wright, dated 11 July 2002:




Letter from Claire Clancy to Mr. Tony Wright, dated 11 July 2002:










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Letter from Dr. J. W. Llewellyn to Mr. Tony Wright, dated 11 July 2002:











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