7. EFFICIENCY AND PRODUCTIVITY
7.1.7 The Departmental Report 2009 states
that "on the basis of currently available provisional in-year
data, savings of over £1,000 million were made in 2008-09"
(para. 5.69). Does the Department have any updated information
on Value for Money savings to date in the CSR 2007 period?
What are the specific efficiency savings now being sought in 2009-10 and
2010-11? Does the Department expect that it will achieve all the
efficiency savings required by the end of 2010-11? (Q86)
Answer
1. The Department has not updated provisional
estimates of value for money savings since publishing its Departmental
Report in June 2009. A public update will be provided later this
year in the Department's Autumn Performance Report 2009.
The CSR did not set the Department a target for value for money
savings in 2009-10. In addition to its original target of £8.2 billion
value for money savings in 2010-11 (compared to a baseline
of 2007-08), the Budget this year announced additional savings
of £2.3 billion in 2010-11. The Department's approach
to achieving this is set out in the Government's 2009 Value
for Money Update, published by the Cabinet Office alongside
the Budget. The Department expects to meet the required level
of value for money savings by the end of 2010-11.
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