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Cabinet Office: Departmental Strategic Objectives 2008-2011

The Cabinet Office has a single overarching aim in ‘making government work better’. This aim will be met through six Departmental Strategic Objectives (DSOs) set out below.

Each DSO has key performance indicators that we will use to assess their delivery and where applicable, their contribution to the Government's Public Service Agreements.

• Cabinet Office: Departmental Strategic Objectives 2008-2011 [PDF 28KB, 6 pages]

Departmetal Strategic Objectives 2008-2011

• DSO 1
  Build an effective UK intelligence community in support of UK national interests; and the capabilities to deal with disruptive challenges to the UK
• DSO 2
  Support the Prime Minister and the Cabinet in domestic, European, overseas and defence policy making
• DSO 3a
  Improve outcomes for most excluded people in society
• DSO 3b
  Enable a thriving third sector
• DSO 4
  Transform public services so that they better meet the individual needs of the citizen and business
• DSO 5
  Build the capacity and capability of the Civil Service to deliver the Government's objectives
• DSO 6
  Promote the highest standards of propriety, integrity and governance in public life