Ministry of Defence Public Service Agreement 2001-2004: Technical Note
The full technical details of the Public Service Agreement for the Ministry of Defence published in "2000 Spending Review: Public Service Agreements 2001-2004" (Cm 4808) are now available.
To read the sections of the PSA Technical Note, with links to the relevant sections, click on the desired heading below:
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Achieve Objective 1 - To achieve Objective 1 by 2005 ensure that a minimum of 90% of rapidly available military units are at required states of readiness.
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Personnel - Recruit, retain and motivate the personnel needed to meet the manning requirement of the Armed Forces, so that by 31st March 2004, the Royal Navy and RAF achieve full manning, and the Army meets 97% of its manning requirement.
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Ministers' Objectives - Achieve the objectives established by Ministers for military operations that arise in which the United Kingdom’s Armed Forces are involved.
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NATO - Working with NATO Allies, implement the decisions of the NATO Washington Summit, including the new Strategic Concept and the Defence Capabilities Initiative, and help to adapt NATO to the new strategic environment.
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EU - Work with partners so that the EU can, by 2003, deploy forces of up to Corps level (50-60,000 personnel) within 60 days, capable of undertaking the full range of Petersberg tasks in and around Europe.
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Conflict Prevention - 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 by a reduction in potential sources of future conflict, where the UK can make a significant contribution. (Joint target with DFID and FCO.)
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Equipment - Develop and deliver battle-winning equipment to time, cost and capability requirement targets that will enable the Armed Forces to provide the military capability required of them now and in the future.
- Value for Money - Achieve value for money through delivering efficiency savings of 3% a year, benefits of the Smart Procurement Initiative of £750 million over the period 2001-02 to 2003-04, and continuing the drive for the optimum utilisation of the defence asset base, with disposals of over £600 million of assets by March 2004.
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Ministry of Defence Public Service Agreement 2001-2004: Technical Note (52 Kb, Adobe PDF)
- In order to look at the Treasury's Summary of the SDAs, or link to another department's document, click here.
- The delivery programmes outlined in the SDA are linked to the efficient use of assets, detailed in the Defence Investment Strategy.
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