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Efficiency Technical Note for 2005-08

The Department’s five-year strategy and Business Plan 2005-2008 set out how we will strengthen our focus on delivery and provide value-for-money. An Efficiency Programme has developed a new business model for the Department to enable us to deliver the Department's Strategy efficiently and effectively. Our vision is of a smaller, simpler and more responsive core Department focused on its national policy making and influencing role. Our services to customers will be delivered by contractors, partners or agencies – and those delivered by the Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform will be from regional locations.

In the Spending Review 2004, the Department committed to achieve annual efficiencies of at least £380m by 2007-08. At least half of these efficiencies will be cash-releasing, allowing resources to be recycled to priority programmes. The technical note sets out how the Department plans to achieve its 2.5% efficiency target, both through it’s core activity (covered by its Business Plan) and through other specific work streams. It was updated on 5 December 2005 to include further information on how we are measuring efficiency delivery.

Measurement Methodologies

Three of our main delivery work  streams have published specific methodologies, which are referred to in the Technical Note. Pease use the Links on the right for further information on the methodologies for Business Support products, Regional Development Agencies and Research Councils UK.

UKTI Efficiency Technical Note

UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) has been treated as a individual entity in terms of efficiency delivery and as such, their programmes are not referred to here. UKTI has produced it's own technical note which you can access using the link to the right.