Home Office Targets - Autumn Performance Report 2004
Introduction by the Home Secretary
I am pleased to introduce the 2004 Autumn Performance Report for the Home Office.
The report sets out the progress we have made towards achieving our 2002 Public Service Agreement (PSA) targets, published in the Spending Review White Paper (Cm 5571) presented to Parliament by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury on 15 July 2002. The report covers progress against targets that the Home Office is solely responsible for delivering and also those targets that we own jointly with other departments such as the Department for Constitutional Affairs and the Crown Prosecution Service.
The measures and success criteria we use to assess progress against each target are set out in the SR2002 Public Service Agreement Technical Notes, published by the Home Office in March 2003 and updated in July 2003.
The summary table opposite provides an overview of progress so far across the targets. In the main body of the report, each PSA target is set out alongside the latest outturn data for each of the contributory measures specified in the Technical Note.
The report shows that we have made significant progress against our targets. Crime has fallen dramatically, and people’s fear of crime is now following suit. Police performance is improving, with much greater focus on putting police officers back on the frontline. The justice gap is continuing to narrow. We have a coherent drug strategy. Our correctional services are operating effectively. Asylum is increasingly under control, with sustained falls in asylum intake. And our work to increase race equality and community engagement is beginning to show real results: there are now 1.6 million more volunteers than in 2001, and more black and minority ethnic police officers than ever before.
Confident Communities in a Secure Britain, published in July 2004, set out the Home Office Strategic Plan for 2004-2008, including our five strategic objectives, and the SR2004 PSA targets we will use to drive progress against these objectives up to 2008. The Annex to this report explains how we plan to build on the SR2002 targets in moving to the new targets for SR2004, which take effect from next April.
We know there is much more that we need to do. But this report shows we now have a strong base for delivering further progress - and the capacity to bring about real social change for the future.
David Blunkett, Secretary of State for the Home Department
Date: Wed Dec 01 00:00:00 GMT 2004
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