The Cabinet Office has published targets for its
Transformational Government implementation, to be delivered by July
2007.
Priorities include greater data sharing between government
departments, the creation of a geographical information system
strategy and the incorporation of service transformation into
departmental spending reviews.
The Cabinet Office’s Transformational Government Implementation
Plan also identified nine different sectors that will publish plans
for adopting shared services this November.
These are education, health, criminal justice, local government,
Department for Work and Pensions, Defence, HM Revenue and Customs,
multi-agency departments and other central government
organisations.
The plan said, “The sector plans will be the vehicle for
delivery of shared services over the next three to seven years.
“The clear intention is that the number of operational centres
for shared services should be measured in tens rather than hundreds
and that the performance levels achieved should be in the upper
quartile when compared with both public and private sector
organisations.”
Launching the document, Jim Murphy, Cabinet Office Minister with
responsibility for e-government said:
“We gave an undertaking when we launched the strategy last
autumn to publish this implementation plan by April. In doing so we
have reached another important milestone that shows how our
ambitious public service transformation programme is not only on
track, but making good progress.
“There is clearly much to do, as the plan shows, but we are
laying the foundations for radical change which will ultimately
benefit our customers.”