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Key Ministerial Target tables
| TARGETS, OUTTURNS & ACHIEVEMENTS | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| THROUGHPUT | 2000/2001 | 1999/2000 | 1998/1999 | 1997/1998 | |
| To end the year with between x% and y% of the network requiring maintenance within the next year. (Business Plan 2000/01, Annex 7) |
Target Outturn |
7.0% to 8.0% | - | - | |
| To ensure that the percentage of the trunk road network having a zero residual life at the end of the financial year 1999/2000 is less than the figure published in the 1998 report of the National Road Maintenance Condition Survey. (Business Plan 1999/2000, Maintenance, Target 1, p.27) |
Target Outturn | Discontinued - replaced by target above Footnote1 |
<7.26 6.1(A) |
- | - |
| To complete x lane kilometres of surface renewal, including reconstruction, overlays, resurfacing, inlays and surface dressing (Business Plan 1999/2000, Maintenance, Target 2, p.27) |
Target Outturn |
Discontinued - replaced by outcome target above |
1750 2570 (A) |
2100 2389 | 1400 1978 |
| To complete 100 bridge maintenance schemes each costing over £200k (Business Plan 1999/2000, Maintenance, Target 5, p.27) |
Target Outturn | Discontinued - structures maintenance now monitored at working level |
100 135 (A) |
- | - |
| To achieve a saving of x estimated vehicle hours from the network communications and economy local network management schemes (LNMSs) completed in the year. (Business Plan 2000/01, Annex 7) |
Target Outtum | 250,000 | - | - | - |
| To complete x road schemes costing between £100k and £3m aimed at improving road safety, contributing to an efficient economy and improving conditions for pedestrians, cyclists and equestrians (together with reducing community severance). These schemes are also aimed at reducing the adverse impacts of motorways and trunk roads on the environment and facilitating integration with other forms of transport, promoting choice and information for travellers. (Business 1999/2000 March, Making Better Use, Target 7, p.27) |
Target Outturn |
Discontinued - replaced by outcome targets above and below |
100 104 (A) |
- | - |
(A) denotes target achieved
| TARGETS, OUTTURNS & ACHIEVEMENTS | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| THROUGHPUT | 2000/2001 | 1999/2000 | 1998/1999 | 1997/1998 | |
| To complete x network control projects |
Target Outturn |
Discontinued - replaced by outcome target above |
Discontinued | 25 25 |
N/A |
| To complete 20 local network management schemes (each costing less than £3m) aimed at improving journey time reliability and/or reducing the impact of roads on the environment. |
Target Outturn |
Discontinued - replaced by outcome target above |
Discontinued | 20 102 |
- |
| To improve safety for all road users and contribute to the Government's new safety strategy and targets for 2010, set out in "Making the Network Safer: the Highways Agency's Strategic Plan for Safety" published on 1 March 2000: |
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| • reduce the number of people killed and seriously injured on trunk roads in the current year to x (compared with the 1994- 98 average of 5589) |
Target Outturn |
5056 | - | - | - |
| • reduce the slight casualty rate in the current year to y slight casualties per hundred million vehicle km (compared with the 1994-98 average of 21.76) |
Target Outturn |
21.13 | - | - | - |
| In each case to allow for expected year to year fluctuations in casualty levels, the Agency will be deemed to have met the target if the result is no more than 5% above the milestone target figure. (Business Plan 2000/01, Annex 7) |
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| To contribute to Government's target of reducing road casualties by one third (compared to average for 1981-1985) by ensuring accident rates on the motorway and all purpose trunk road network do not exceed x accidents involving personal injury for every 100 million vehicle kilometres travelled. (Business Plan 1999/2000, Making Better Use, Target 8, p.27) |
Target Outturn |
Discontinued - replaced by target above |
20 18 (A) Footnote2 |
21 18.6 |
21 19.2 |
| TARGETS, OUTTURNS & ACHIEVEMENTS | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| THROUGHPUT | 2000/2001 | 1999/2000 | 1998/1999 | 1997/1998 | |
| Complete x safety schemes Note: definition of safety schemes changed from year to year, so performance not directly comparable) |
Target Outturn |
Discontinued - replaced by outcome target above |
Discontinued - included in combined Target above, listed under "Congestion" |
200 377 |
180 264 |
| Achieve an average annual target of x% across the four environment programme sub-indicators. (Noise, Air Quality. Biodiversity, Landscape) (Business Plan 2000/01, Annex 7) |
Target Outturn |
85% | - | - | - |
| To achieve by the end of the year no less than x% of the TPI scheme milestones listed in the Business Plan. 2000/01 Annex, 4 (1999/2000 Annex B, Target 10, p.28) |
Target Outturn |
90% | 85% 87% (A) |
80% 91% |
80% 94% |
| - % of vacant residential properties at the end of year does not exceed x% of residential portfolio; and the |
Target Outturn |
15% | 18% 17% (A) |
<18% 25% |
- |
| - % of vacant habitable properties empty for > 6 months does not exceed y%. (Annex 4) Business Plan 2000/01. |
Target Outturn |
3% | 3% 2.6% (A) |
<7% 4.5% |
- |
| (Business Plan 1999/2000,TPI, Target 11, p.28) | Footnote3 | ||||
| FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE | |||||
| The Agency will manage its programme and |
Target Outturn |
Discontinued: now monitored at working level |
95- 100% 99.7% (A) |
92.5-100% 99.6% |
- |
| running costs within the agreed financial allocation |
Target Outturn |
95-100% 99.6% (A) |
90-100% 99.5% |
- | |
| (Business Plan 1999/2000. Continuous Business Improvements, Targets 15, 15.1-15.2, Annex B, p.28) |
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| Achieve x of the efficiency/ effectiveness performance measure targets set for the main areas of our programme (Business Plan 1999/2000. Continuous Business Improvements, Target 17 - 17.9, Annex B p.29) |
Target Outturn |
Discontinued - Efficiency and effectiveness now monitored at working level |
8 out of 9 8 out of 9 (A) |
80% 60% |
- - |
Footnote1 continues PSA target "to keep a safe, well maintained network available for use."
Footnote2 direct comparison of accident figures between this and previous years is less meaningful because the 1999 figures are based on a new trunk road assignment method.
Footnote3 targets for 2000/01 exclude London properties which have transferred to Transport for London. (TfL)
(A) denotes target achieved
PERFORMANCE AGAINST MILESTONE TARGETS 1999/2000
Maintenance
1. To develop jointly with DETR indices of the condition of road pavements suitable for publication by 31 March 2000. Achieved.
2. To ensure that there is no material disruption on the network as a result of the Millennium Bug by:
- Carrying out risk assessment on all known Agency control systems, road-side equipment and facilities by the end of June 1999; and
- Having Agency-wide business continuity plans and contingency plans in place
Achieved : Both targets achieved to timetable.
3. To ensure that major roadworks on existing roads are:-
- No more than 2.5 miles (4km) long; ( 95%) and
- At least 6 miles (9.6km) apart (97.5%) except in urban areas (defined as areas where the speed limit is 30mph or less), emergencies, and otherwise agreed with DETR. Achieved.
Making Better Use of the Existing Network
1. Progress the Traffic Control Centre Public-Private Partnership to the point of inviting best and final offers by 31 March 2000. Achieved.
Continuous Business Improvements
1. To develop and introduce jointly with DETR a revised set of efficiency targets and indicators by 31 March 2000. Achieved
2. To publish a policy statement and action plan by 30 September 1999 on how the Agency will take forward the Government's policy on Greening Government Operations. Achieved: Published 30 September 1999.
3. To attain Investors in People status by 31 December 1999: Not achieved.Although the I1P assessors in December 1999 reported a massive shift forward in the number of indicators met or partially met the Agency still needed to take forward action in some areas to fully meet the standard. (I IP accreditation was achieved in October 2000.)
4. To meet all agreed key milestones for the successful introduction of Resource Accounting and Budgeting listed below:
- Publication of audited Agency accounts in approved HM Treasury-RAB format; and
- Satisfaction of DETR needs for Government Trigger Points 2 and 3. Not achieved.The Agency account was qualified in two major areas.
Citizen's Charter Targets:
5. To fulfil the obligations of the Road Users Charter. Not achieved. Although we failed to reach the standard in some areas overall an improvement was made over previous years performance.
6. To ensure the service provided to the public is in accordance with the six Whitehall standards. Not achieved. Failed to meet one sub element target for correspondence by 0.7%.
The Agency targets are set within the context of the DETR Public Service Agreement. Two targets in the agreement were of relevance to the Agency in 1999/2000.
- End the decline in the condition of our motorways and trunk roads (and restore the cuts in the maintenance of local authority principal roads and bridges) On course: condition of motorways and trunk roads improved.
- Complete a "Next Steps" Review of the Agency by July 1999, and introduce a revised set of efficiency and effectiveness targets and measures by March 2000. Achieved.
