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1 Delivering Better Public Service: Progress

Objective A: To promote enterprise, innovation and increased productivity

Objective B: To make the most of the UK's science, engineering and technology

Objective C: To develop strong, competitive markets within a regulatory framework which promotes fairness and sustainability

Objective D: Enhanced competitiveness of Britain's companies through overseas sales and investments; and a continuing level of quality foreign direct investment

Section E: Managing investments, assets and liabilities

Section F: Agencies and related organisations

Annexes (Including Main Estimates)

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Introduction

1.1. Government spending plans for 1999 to 2002 were set in the 1998 Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR), including the commitment to extra investment to raise standards and improve the quality of public services. The White Paper Public Services for the Future: Modernisation, Reform, Accountability (Cm 4181), published in December 1998, and its supplement (Cm 4315, March 1999) reinforced this commitment by setting out measurable Public Service Agreement (PSA) targets for the full range of the Government’s objectives. The Spring 2000 Expenditure Plans Report gave a full report of progress against all of these targets. Further information is included in this Report (see Figure 1.1).

1.2. New plans for public spending for 2001 to 2004 were set out in the 2000 Spending Review. The Review also further developed PSAs in order to prioritise the most important goals and reforms the Government wants to deliver. These targets are set out in the White Paper Spending Review 2000: Public Service Agreements 2001-04 (Cm 4808) and the DTI targets are shown below. Policies and plans to achieve those targets are described in this report and progress towards achieving them will be fully reported on in the Spring 2002 Expenditure Plans Report.

1.3. In January 2001, the Trade and Industry Committee published a report on The Department of Trade and Industry: Role, Objectives and Targets which included a number of recommendations about the quality and timeliness of information available on the Department’s PSA targets. The Department is responding to the Committee and has taken account of its recommendations in setting out information in this Report.

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