Public Service Agreement Performance
DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS
Target: Reduce the gap in productivity between the least well performing quartile of rural areas and the English median by 2006, and improve the accessibility of services for rural people
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Indicator one: Productivity defined as the aggregate earnings of taxpayers of working age divided by the number of people of working age.
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Indicator two: Proportion of rural households within about 800m / 10 minutes walk of a daily or better bus service on weekdays.
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Indicator three: Proportion of rural households within about 800m / 10 minutes walk of an hourly or better bus service on weekdays.
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Indicator four: Proportion of settlements with access to community transport provision.
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Indicator five: Participation in job-related education/training in the last 4 weeks.
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Indicator six: Attainment of Level 2 by 19 year-olds.
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Indicator seven: Attainment of Level 3 by 19 year-olds.
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Indicator eight: Access to primary care measured by the proportion of rural households within 4km of a doctor's surgery.
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Indicator nine: Access to a range of treatments available outside the hospital setting measured by the location of the 100 one-stop primary care centres and mobile service units ('one-stop shops') planned to serve rural areas.
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Indicator ten: Proportion of life threatening calls to ambulance services responded to within 8 minutes in rural areas (same standard as in urban areas).
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Indicator eleven: Proportion of non life threatening 999 ambulance calls in rural areas responded to within 19 minutes (compared with 14 minutes in urban areas).
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Indicator twelve: Proportion of rural households within 2km of a cash dispensing facility.
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Indicator thirteen: Proportion of rural households within 2km of a post office.
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Indicator fourteen: Proportion of rural households within 2km of a bank, building society or ATM.
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Indicator fifteen: Proportion of rural households within 1 mile of a location with public internet access.
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Indicator sixteen: Proportion of rural households within 3 miles of a location with public internet access.
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