- 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 how a #500 million saving in its budget by 2007-08 exceeds planned UK cash savings arising from Sir Peter Gershon’s report, Releasing resources to the front line - Independent Review of Public Sector Efficiency.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has never claimed that the £500 million saving in its budget by 2007-08 exceeds planned UK cash savings.
- 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 how it plans to exceed the targets set out by Sir Peter Gershon in his report, Releasing resources to the front line - Independent Review of Public Sector Efficiency, for efficiency savings without incurring at least a comparable impact on jobs as that predicted in the Gershon report.
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 in what respect planned efficiency savings in Scotland will exceed those in the United Kingdom.
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: 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 will parallel the commitment in Sir Peter Gershon’s report, Releasing resources to the front line - Independent Review of Public Sector Efficiency, that in order to ensure confidence and credibility of the measures, Her Majesty’s Government is inviting the National Audit Office and the Audit Commission to scrutinise departmental efficiency technical notes before publication.
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 the commitment to productivity improvement in the private and public sectors highlighted in its Framework for Economic Development in Scotland strategy will involve matching the 2.5% public sector efficiency target announced for the rest of the United Kingdom in Her Majesty’s Government’s Budget 2004 - Prudence for a Purpose: A Britain of Stability and Strength.
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 its departments will be required to set out efficiency technical notes setting out the measures and methodologies that they will use to assess efficiency savings and whether departments will then publish final versions of these documents by the end of October, as is planned in the rest of the United Kingdom.
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 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 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: 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.
