Office of Government Commerce Mr. Hoban To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate (a) the savings delivered to the Exchequer by the activities of the Office of Government Commerce (OCG) in each year since it was established and (b) the savings made on each OCG programme in each year. John Healey The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) reports against two Public Service Agreement targets, and the following tables detail the savings made against these two major programmes. Value for Money OGC reports value for money (vfm) gains in central Government civil procurement through improvements in the success rate of programmes and projects and through other commercial initiatives: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Total vfm gains|Direct Negotiations|Joint Procurement|Reduced process costs|Gateway and other improved contract or asset management| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2005-06|2600 |806 |484 |79 |1,231 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2004-05|2262 |677 |410 |113 |1,062 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2003-04|2086 |655 |466 |178 |787 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2002-03|767 |542 |114 |52 |59 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2001-02|401 |220 |86 |40 |55 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2000-01|414 |304 |22 |36 |52 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Efficiency Programme The 2004 Spending Review set targets for the Government to achieve annual efficiency gains of over £20 billion and gross workforce reductions of more than 84,000 by 2007-08. Progress is as follows: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | |Efficiency Gains (£ billion)|Comments | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |2005-2006 - year one of programme |9.8 (by 31 March 2006) |Figure published in HMT CSR 07 document (13 July 2006)| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |2006-2007 - year two of programme |115.5 (by 31 Dec 2006) |Figure announced in budget 2007 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |1 Cumulative figure covering first 21 months of programme.| | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------