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Spending Review
This Spending Review was informed by fifteen cross-departmental reviews of issues that might benefit from a joint approach involving two or more Government departments. Four of these have full Public Service Agreements. These are the reviews of the Sure Start programme for young children (Chapter 20), the Welfare to Work programme (Chapter 21), the Criminal Justice System (Chapter 22), and Action Against Illegal Drugs (Chapter 23). One further review concentrated on local government issues - the review of Local Government Finance - and a PSA collecting together for ease the targets drawn from departmental lists of targets which will depend on local government for delivery appears in Chapter 24.
The remaining ten reviews have contributed to Ministers' decisions on other PSAs, although there was no case for a separate PSA as a management tool for those issues. The boxes below collect these together, show how the reviews have influenced departmental PSAs, and cross-refer to a number of other relevant targets which will support cross-departmental strategies.
Department for Education and Employment (DfEE) target 1: Increase the percentage of 11 year olds at or above the expected standard of literacy and numeracy for their age: by 2004 reduce to zero the number of Local Education Authorities (LEA) where fewer than a set percentage of pupils achieve these standards, thus narrowing the attainment gap. This target will be announced in due course.
DfEE target 3: Increase the percentage of pupils obtaining five or more GCSEs at grades A* to C (or equivalent), with at least 38% to achieve this standard in every LEA by 2004.
Welfare to Work target 4: Over the three years to 2004 increase the employment rates of disadvantaged areas and groups, taking account of the economic cycle - people with disabilities, lone parents, ethnic minorities and the over 50s, the 30 local authority districts with the poorest initial labour market position - and reduce the difference between their employment rates and the overall rate.
Department of Health target 2: Narrow the health gap between socio-economic groups and between the most deprived areas and the rest of the country, in childhood and throughout life. Specific national targets will be developed in consultation with external stakeholders and experts and published in 2001 in time to become fully operational by the beginning of 2002-03.
Home Office target 1: Reduce the key recorded crime categories of:
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions target 5: Ensure that all social housing meets set standards of decency by 2010 by reducing the number of households living in social housing that does not meet these standards by a third between 2001 and 2004; with most of the improvements taking place in the most deprived local authority areas as part of a comprehensive regeneration strategy.
A separate PSA has been agreed for this cross-departmental review: see Chapter 20.
Home Office target 1: Reduce by 2004 the time from arrest to sentence or other disposal by:
Home Office target 10: Reduce the rate of re-convictions of all young offenders by 5% by 2004 compared to the predicted rate.
Department of Health target 7: Improve the life chances of children in care by:
DfEE target 2: Increase the percentage of 14 year olds at or above the standard of literacy, numeracy, science and Information & Communications Technology (ICT) for their age. Subject to consultation: for 2004, a minimum performance target will be set which will result in higher standards for the bottom 20% of pupils and narrow the attainment gap.
DfEE target 4: Increase the percentage of pupils obtaining five or more GCSEs at grades A* to G (or equivalent), including English and maths: by 2004 92% of 16 year olds should reach this standard.
Also relevant: Home Office targets 1 and 3, Lord Chancellor's Department target 8, Action Against Illegal Drugs PSA.
A separate PSA has been agreed for this cross-departmental review: see Chapter 21.
A separate PSA has been agreed for this cross-departmental review: see Chapter 22.
Department for Education and Employment (DfEE) target 5: On pupil inclusion:
Department of Health target 7: Improve the life chances of children in care by giving them the care and guidance needed to narrow the gap by 2004 between the proportions of children in care and their peers who are cautioned or convicted
Home Office target 1: Reduce the key recorded crime categories of: vehicle crime by 30% by 2004; domestic burglary by 25%, with no local authority area having a rate more than three times the national average, by 2005; and robbery in our principal cities by 14% by 2005.
Home Office target 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.
Also relevant: Home Office targets 3 and 4, Criminal Justice System PSA.
A separate PSA has been agreed for this cross-departmental PSA: see Chapter 23.
Home Office target 13: Make substantial progress by 2004 towards one million more people being actively involved in their communities.
No targets appear in departmental PSAs relating to this cross-departmental review.
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) target 2: Care for our living heritage and preserve natural diversity by reversing the long term decline in the number of farmland birds by 2020, as measured annually against underlying trends.
MAFF target 5: Deliver the environmental and economic benefits envisaged in the England Rural Development Plan by 2004 including an increase in the area farmed organically and development of the rural economy under the new Rural Enterprise Scheme.
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) target 12: Open up public access to mountain, moor, heath and down and registered common land by the end of 2005.
DETR target 13: Bring into favourable condition by 2010 95% of all nationally important wildlife sites, compared to 60% of sites currently estimated to be in such condition.
Chapter 24 draws together targets that appear elsewhere in this White Paper which the Government relies on local authorities and their local partners to deliver.
Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) target 5: Improve the overall international ranking of the UK's science and engineering base, as measured by international measures of quality, cost-effectiveness and relevance
DTI target 6: Increase the level of exploitation of technological knowledge derived from the science and engineering base, as demonstrated by a significant rise in the proportion of innovating businesses citing such sources.
Cabinet Office target 3: Ensure departments meet the Prime Minister's targets for electronic service delivery by government: 25% capability by 2002 and 100% capability by 2005.
Customs & Excise target 5, Inland Revenue target 3: Ensure by 2005 that 100% of services are offered electronically, wherever possible through a common Government portal, and a take-up rate for these services of at least 50%.
Department for Education and Employment target 2: Increase the percentage of 14 year olds at or above the standard of Information & Communications Technology (ICT) for their age.
Also relevant: Department of Trade and Industry target 3.
Foreign and Commonwealth Office target 2, Ministry of Defence target 6, Department for International Development target 3: Improved effectiveness of the UK contribution to conflict prevention and management as demonstrated by a reduction in the number of people whose lives are affected by violent conflict and a reduction in potential sources of future conflict, where the UK can make a significant contribution.
No targets appear in departmental PSAs relating to this cross-departmental review.
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