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Key facts about the Efficiency Programme

The Big Picture

  1. The Efficiency Programme has delivered more than £15 billion in efficiency gains and more than 60,500 workforce reductions.
  2. The Efficiency Programme is composed of more than 300 initiatives - they vary in size from £1.2 billion to £100,000.

 

The ten biggest efficiency initiatives
1.  Health - Pharmaceuticals - Generic Switching £1,204 million.
2.  Health - Service Improvement £1,056 million.
3.  Police - Force level Efficiencies £888 million.
4.  Defence - Defence Logistics Transformation Programme £541 million.
5.  Immigration - Asylum Support Cost Reduction £445 million.
6.  Health - Core PASA Procurement £442 million.
7.  Welfare - Payment Modernisation programme £311 million.
8.  Health - Social Care Efficiency £306 million
9.  Local - Local Government - Corporate Services £277 million.
10. Housing - New Supply Registered Social Landlords £276million

 

Specific examples:

  1. More than 99 per cent of passports now issued within 10 days.
  2. Benefits payments are now processed for 1p per transaction, not £1.50 as with Girocheque.
  3. eAuctions are saving an average of 25 per cent each time they are used as a procurement method.
  4. Three-quarters of police forces now use video identity parades - up from five per cent in 2002, saving around two-thirds on total costs (£29 million a year).
  5. More than 1.5 million electronic transactions are successfully completed by the Government every day - for example, more than 50 per cent of driving tests are booked online.
  6. The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is moving from eight buildings to two - it can do this through a new flexible workspace plan and reducing staff by 1,000.
  7. The Home Office is saving £28 per transaction by making purchases using a Government Procurement Card issued with Visa, rather than traditional processing methods.

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