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Spending Review
To build a safe, just and tolerant society, in which the rights and responsibilities of individuals, families and communities are properly balanced, and the protection and security of the public are maintained.
Objective I: reduction in crime, particularly youth crime, and in the fear of crime; and the maintenance of public safety and good order.
1. Reduce the key recorded crime categories of:
Target contributing to CJS PSA.
2. Ensure by 2004 that the levels of fear of crime in the key categories of violent crime, burglary and car crime, reported in the British Crime Survey (BCS), are lower than the levels reported in the 2001 BCS. Target contributing to CJS PSA
3. Reduce the proportion of people under the age of 25 reporting the use of Class A drugs by 25% by 2005 (and by 50% by 2008). Target contributing to Action Against Illegal Drugs PSA
4. Reduce by 2004 the economic cost of crime, as measured by an indicator to be developed by March 2001. Target contributing to CJS PSA
Objective II: delivery of justice through effective and efficient investigation, prosecution, trial and sentencing, and through support for victims.
5. Improve the level of public confidence in the CJS by 2004, including improving that of ethnic minority communities. Target contributing to CJS PSA
6. Increase the number and proportion of recorded crimes for which an offender is brought to justice. Target contributing to CJS PSA
7. Improve by 5 percentage points the satisfaction of victims and witnesses with their treatment by the CJS by 2002 and thereafter at least maintain that level of performance. Target contributing to CJS PSA
8. Reduce by 2004 the time from arrest to sentence or other disposal by:
Target contributing to CJS PSA
Objective III: prevention of terrorism, reduction in other organised and international crime, and protection against threats to national security.
9. Disrupt 10% more organised criminal enterprises by 2004.
Objective IV: effective execution of the sentences of the courts so as to reduce re-offending and protect the public.
10. Reduce the rate of re-convictions:
Target contributing to CJS PSA
11. Reduce the levels of repeat offending amongst problem drugs-misusing offenders by 25% by 2005 (and by 50% by 2008). Target contributing to Action Against Illegal Drugs PSA
12. Maintain the current low rates of prisoner escapes including no category A escapes.
Objective V: helping to build, under a modernised constitution, a fair and prosperous society, in which everyone has a stake, and in which the rights and responsibilities of individuals, families and communities are properly balanced.
13. Make substantial progress by 2004 towards one million more people being actively involved in their communities.
14. Promote race equality, particularly in the provision of public services such as education, health, law and order, housing and local government, and measure progress by the annual publication of Race Equality in Public Services, a set of race equality performance indicators across the public sector; and, achieve representative workforces in the Home Office and its police, fire, probation, and prison services.
Objective VI: regulation of entry to, and settlement in, the United Kingdom in the interests of social stability and economic growth; the facilitation of travel by UK citizens; the support of destitute asylum seekers during consideration of their claims; and the integration of those accepted as refugees.
15. Ensure that by 2004, 75% of substantive asylum applications are decided within two months.
16. Enforce the immigration laws more effectively by removing a greater proportion of failed asylum seekers.
Objective VII: reduction in the incidence of fire and related death, injury and damage, and ensuring the safety of the public through civil protection.
17. Reduce the incidence of accidental fire-related deaths in the home by 20% averaged over the five year period to March 2004 compared with the average recorded in the five year period to March 1999.
Value for money
18. Ensure annual efficiency gains by police forces are worth in total at least 2% of overall police spending in that year.
The Home Secretary is responsible for the delivery of this PSA.
Targets 1, 2, 4-8 and 10 contribute to the Government's objectives for the criminal justice system as set out in the Criminal Justice System PSA, Chapter 22. The Home Secretary shares responsibility for the delivery of these targets with the Lord Chancellor and Attorney General.
Targets 3 and 11 contribute to the Government's objectives for action against illegal drugs as set out in the Action Against Illegal Drugs PSA, Chapter 23, and are supported by other Government departments. Target 3 is delivered jointly with the Department for Education and Employment and the Department of Health. The Home Office's prime contribution is through effective management of the Drugs Prevention Advisory Service; support for Drug Action Teams; and the measures specific to drugs set out in the Service Delivery Agreement.
