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Debate between Claire Perry and Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton(13 years, 8 months ago)
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Claire Perry (Devizes) (Con)
8. What steps she is taking to reduce the burden of paperwork on police forces.
Mark Lancaster (Milton Keynes North) (Con)
9. What steps she is taking to reduce the burden of paperwork on police forces.
The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mrs Theresa May)
The Government are committed to reducing bureaucracy. We are scrapping the stop-and- account form, and reducing the amount of information to be recorded on the stop-and-search form. Doing those two things saves up to 800,000 man-hours a year. We are returning certain charging decisions to the police. That will save up to a further 50,000 man-hours per year. We are working with the police to sweep away a further range of the red tape that prevents officers doing what they and the public want them to do—getting out on the streets and cutting crime.
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Debate between Claire Perry and Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton(13 years, 11 months ago)
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Claire Perry (Devizes) (Con)
11. What arrangements are in place to monitor the progress of his Department’s major equipment procurement programmes.
Mark Lancaster (Milton Keynes North) (Con)
14. What arrangements are in place to monitor the progress of his Department’s major equipment procurement programmes.
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence (Peter Luff)
I receive monthly reports and quarterly detailed project health checks on the Ministry of Defence’s largest projects. Last year, discounting deliberate policy decisions made by the previous Government, the MOD met all its targets to deliver its major projects to cost, time and performance. This year looks equally encouraging. The top 30 major projects are also reviewed annually by the National Audit Office and in this year’s report the Comptroller and Auditor General said:
“In-year performance on the majority of large defence projects which we examined has been encouraging".
But we should not wait for the NAO to tell us how we are doing at the end of the year. That is why I can announce to the House today that the Secretary of State and I are forming a major projects performance board that will review our most significant projects regularly.