Spending Review
Chapter 18: The Cabinet Office
Aim
The Cabinet Office's aim is to ensure that the Government delivers its priorities.
Objectives and performance targets
Objective I: to work with No 10, Departments and others to secure excellence in policy making; responsive, high quality public services; and information age government.
1. Ensure that rigorous Regulatory Impact Assessments of proposed regulations are undertaken and, for significant proposals, that the costs are justified by the total economic, social and environmental benefits.
2. Ensure key public services have set in place strategies and targets for measuring and responding to users' views.
3. Ensure departments meet the Prime Minister's targets for electronic service delivery by government: 25% capability by 2002 and 100% capability by 2005.
Objective II: to lead and support Civil Service reform so as to secure a more open, diverse, and professional Service in which people innovate, create and learn; work in partnership; take more personal responsibility; and use new technology to deliver high quality results.
4. Deliver those elements of the published Civil Service Reform Programme which are being led by the Cabinet Office including:
- new pay systems to sharpen team and individual performance; and
- new development and training packages to extend the skills of staff and enhance their leadership potential.
5. Ensure that the Civil Service becomes more open and diverse, by achieving by 2004-05 the agreed targets of: 35% Senior Civil Service (SCS) to be women; 25% of top 600 posts to be filled by women; 3.2% of the SCS to be from ethnic minority backgrounds and 3% of the SCS to be people with disabilities.
Objective III: to deliver efficient and effective service to the Prime Minister, Ministers, Cabinet and Government.
Value for Money
6. Achieve a 2.5% efficiency saving per year on administrative resources.
Who is responsible for delivery?
The Minister for the Cabinet Office has overall responsibility for targets 1-3 under Objective I. The Head of the Home Civil Service reports to the Prime Minister as Minister for the Civil Service on Objective II, and as Cabinet Secretary reports to the Prime Minister on Objective III. The Cabinet Secretary is therefore responsible for delivering targets 4 and 5.
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