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E1 |
5.4 |
Use the £230 million
Invest to Save Budget to enable more innovative and efficient joint working by
public bodies
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1. Issue bidding guidance for round two |
Achieved |
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2. Closing date for expressions of interest |
Achieved |
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3. Closing date for formal bids |
Achieved |
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4. Decisions on formal bids/announcements of winners |
Achieved |
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5. Winning projects underway |
Achieved |
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E2 |
5.5 |
Establish a new Productivity
and Competitiveness Cabinet Committee. |
Established under the chairmanship of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, January 1999 |
Achieved |
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E3 |
5.6 |
Ensure that by March
2001, 90 per cent by volume of routine procurement of goods by central
Government is conducted electronically. Office of Government Commerce (OGC) Service desk |
50% procurement by volume |
Achieved |
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90% procurement by volume |
Target not yet met However, work is going forward: strategy agreed by OGC Supervisory Board to deliver significant savings by March 2006. |
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E4 |
5.6 |
Ensure that by 2005, 100%
of Government services are available on-line. |
Publish findings half-yearly |
Achieved
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E5 |
5.9 |
Set up an Enterprise Unit
to act as a focal point for the Department’s work on the entrepreneurship
agenda. |
Enterprise Unit set up as part of Central Directorate |
Achieved |
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E6 |
5.9 |
Establish a DTI Knowledge
Management Unit. |
1. Set up the Unit in February 1999 |
Achieved |
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2 Arrange a first seminar to capture best practice from outside DTI |
Achieved |
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3. Develop an implementation plan |
Achieved |
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4. Establish an action plan for modernising DTI |
Achieved |
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E7 |
5.9 |
Carry forward the work of
the Future Unit to champion the knowledge driven economy. |
1 Agree and initiate actions to take forward recommendations for DTI in ‘Mapping the Future’ report |
Achieved |
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2 Complete Report on ‘Work in the knowledge driven economy’. |
Achieved |
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3 Complete two further reports in pursuit of Future Unit mission |
Achieved
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E8 |
5.9 |
Provide better
information for SMEs, building on the Enterprise Zone web-site. email: hugh.jackson@rsme.dti.gov.uk |
1. Agree with Dialog Corporation and the Enterprise Zone Management Board a service development plan to enhance the effectiveness of the Enterprise Zone for SMEs |
Achieved |
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2. Review future positioning and function of the current Enterprise Zone in relation to emerging ideas about how businesses will access the Small Business Service; the SBS single gateway; as well as the development through the SBS of a single electronic access point to government advice on regulation. |
Achieved |
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E9 |
1.20 |
Develop a Competitiveness
Index, based on a set of competitiveness indicators, to measure the UK’s
progress. |
1. Initial discussions, investigations of data availability and possible methodologies and initial data collection (completed in February) |
Achieved
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2. Draft of basis framework; submission to DTI Ministers |
Achieved |
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3. Present framework to Competitiveness Council |
Achieved |
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4. Send initial draft of index to EAPC and interested government departments |
Achieved |
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5. Present final draft to EAPC |
Achieved |
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6. Publish |
Achieved |
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E10 |
1.20 |
Appoint a Competitiveness
Council, drawn from a cross section of business people, to advise on the
Index and other issues. |
1. Appoint members to the Council |
Achieved |
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2. Settle work programme for 1999 |
Achieved |
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3. Advise on framework of Competitiveness Index |
Achieved |
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Last updated: Friday
17th January 2003 |
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