My honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Iain Wright) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.

The following performance targets have been set for Ordnance Survey in 2008-09. Ordnance Survey will report externally against a set of agency performance monitors as required of all executive agencies in government:

to achieve an operating profit before exceptional items, interest and dividends of £15.7 million for the financial year 1 April 2008 to 31 March 2009;

some 99.6 per cent of significant real-world features are represented in the database within six months of completion;

to continuously improve the timeliness of the supply of Ordnance Survey’s data to customers with a success rate not lower than 97 per cent;

to reduce carbon emissions from Ordnance Survey headquarters by 30 per cent against the base year of 2000-01 by March 2009; and

to achieve an improvement of 5 per cent in online business on planned 2007-08 baseline transaction levels (for example, a rise from 94,816 to 99,557 transactions) through Ordnance Survey’s OS MasterMap Service and Consumer e-Commerce platform.

These targets reflect Ordnance Survey’s continuing commitment to customers, improved value for money for all its stakeholders and commitment to government policies.