- Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 27 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there is any equivalent Scottish analysis to that presented in tables 4.1 and 4.2 of Sir Peter Gershon’s report, Releasing resources to the front line Independent Review of Public Sector Efficiency, and whether it intends to produce comparable agreed efficiency targets for its departments and, if so, on what timescale.
Answer
I refer the member to the question S2W-10435 answered on 27 October 2004. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 27 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any equivalent programme to parallel the commitment in Sir Peter Gershon’s report, Releasing resources to the front line - Independent Review of Public Sector Efficiency that the Audit Commission will strengthen its measurement of local authorities’ use of resources within the revised comprehensive performance assessment from 2005.
Answer
I refer the member to the question S2W-10435 answered on 27 October 2004. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 27 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to set targets for productive time savings that account for 40% of the agreed UK efficiency targets.
Answer
I refer the member to the question S2W-10435 answered on 27 October 2004. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 27 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any targets for efficiency savings have been set for 2005-06 and 2006-07 for the Scottish budget as a result of the recent UK spending review; if so, what percentage of the total Scottish budget they represent in each year and when they were made known to the Parliament.
Answer
No targets for efficiency savings have been set for the Scottish budget as a result of the recent UK spending review. The Executive has set its own targets and details of the efficiency gains we aim to secure will be published in our forthcoming Efficient Government plan.
- Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 27 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the same percentage of savings that are envisaged as cash-releasing in Her Majesty’s Government’s spending review will apply in Scotland and what percentage this will be.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-10435 answered on 27 October 2004. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 27 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Cabinet has yet agreed (a) an overall target or (b) department by department targets for public sector efficiency savings.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-10435 answered on 27 October 2004. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 27 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to match both the cash-releasing and non-cash efficiency savings targets set for United Kingdom departments in the recent spending review.
Answer
I refer the member to the question S2W-10435 answered on 27 October 2004. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 27 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Parliament was informed of the planned 2% efficiency savings over three years and whether this information first appeared in the media.
Answer
The Parliament was informed that the target for efficiency savings was £500 million per annum by 2007-08 on 24 June 2004 in a statement by Andy Kerr, Minister for Finance and Public Services. A target of £500 million savings by 2007-08 is 2.4% of the Scottish Executive 2004-05 Departmental ExpenditureLimit. The target for efficiency savings was published in the media on the following day. On 28 September 2004, the answer given to question S2W-10434 informed the Parliament that the Efficient Government plan, to be published shortly, will exceed this target and identifies planned efficiency savings of £650 million by 2007-08.
All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 27 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the target for savings of up to 2.5% a year by 2007-08 set out first in Her Majesty’s Government’s Budget 2004 - Prudence For A Purpose: A Britain of Stability and Strength will be observed (a) overall and (b) by each Executive department and whether any official statement has been made to this effect in the six months since the target was first outlined.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-10435 answered on 27 October 2004. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Ms Wendy Alexander, MSP for Paisley North, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 September 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 27 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Minister for Finance and Public Services has completed his spending review.
Answer
Yes. It has been completed and was announced on 29 September 2004.
