DG Justice and Communities - 2008-09 Efficiency Outturn Process
DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT OF EFFICIENCIES
As Director General, I am aware of the overall need to ensure the delivery of government services as efficiently as possible. In terms of National Outcome 15, Our public services are high quality, continually improving, efficient and responsive to people's needs, I acknowledge my responsibility to have achieved £19.2m of cash-releasing efficiencies for the year 2008-09.
I am satisfied, on the basis of supporting assurance statements from the responsible delivery organisations and/or Directorate managers, that the costs of the activities in question have been reduced by the amounts shown below without material detriment to the quality of service provided.
I confirm that the actual efficiency delivered was £32.234m for the year 2008-09. The attached table shows outturn against target for each Efficiency Delivery Plan (EDP) and records any changes to the target since the first publication of the relevant EDPs.
The efficiencies include £0.293m delivered through shared services, £5.30m through asset management and £7.76m through procurement.
I can confirm that time-releasing efficiencies of £0.163m were also delivered. These are detailed in a separate table and I am satisfied that the amounts shown are a fair estimate of the value of time released to deliver better services.
I am satisfied that the efficiencies identified fall within the published definition of an efficiency gain.
Additional note
As DG Justice and Communities I can also confirm that I am content to sign off the reported efficiencies for DGHealth/12 Affordable Housing Investment programme of £34.695m against a target of £9.5m. Efficiencies delivered by this activity count towards the total for DG Health rather than DG Justice and Communities and are not detailed in this statement.
DG Justice and Communities
1 September 2009
PROJECT | Published Planned Efficiency (£m) | Project Outturn Efficiency (£m) |
DG Justice / 1 Accountant in Bankruptcy | 0.225m | 0.05m |
DG Justice / 2 Community Justice Services | 0.3m | 0.3m |
DG Justice / 3 Police Central Government Budgets | 2.57m | 4.17m |
DG Justice / 4 Parliament House Re-Development | 4.251m | 4.251m |
DG Justice / 5 Scottish Legal Services Ombudsman | 0.242m | 0.259m |
DG Justice / 6 Fire Central Government | 0.15m | 0.116m |
DG Justice / 7 Scottish Legal Aid Board | 3.5m | 5.263m |
DG Justice / 8 Scottish Charity Appeals Panels Secretariat | 0.039m | 0.039m |
DG Justice / 9 Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator | 0.07m | 0.072m |
DG Justice / 10-12 Scottish Prisons consolidated projects | 8.6m | 15.7m |
DG Justice / 31 Scottish Court Service consolidated projects | 1.352m | 1.677m |
DG Justice / 24 Risk Management Authority | 0.023m | 0.031m |
DG Justice / 25 Parole Board for Scotland | 0.028m | 0.010m |
DG Justice / 26 Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission | 0.108m | 0.188m |
DG Justice / 27 Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority | 0.058m | 0.058m |
DG Justice / 28 Victim Support Scotland | 0.050m | 0.050m |
TOTAL EFFICIENCIES | 21.566 | 32.234 |
| Outturn Efficiency (£m) |
Shared Services | £0.293m |
Asset Management | £5.30m |
Procurement | £7.76m |
(note that some savings may fall within more than one of these categories)
TIME-RELEASING EFFICIENCIES PROJECT | Published Planned Efficiency (£m) (where relevant) | Project Outturn Efficiency (£m) |
Police Central Government Budgets | | £0.163m |
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TOTAL TIME-RELEASING EFFICIENCIES | | £0.163m |