Cabinet Office
The Prime Minister announced on 30th March 2000 that all Government services to the Citizen and Businesses should be available electronically by 31st December 2005.
This is the latest ESD report of progress Departments' are making towards achieving this target.
The monitoring regime is based on measuring the extent to which Departments' key commitments - as outlined in their Public Service Agreements (PSA) and Service Delivery Agreements (SDA) - are electronically enabled.
Departments' are required to report on a Quarterly basis. This report is based on a survey of Central Government Departments carried out at the end of Quarter 4 2003.
Qualitatitive data on all Central Government services to be e-enabled is at Annex A. Previous reports are available.
It is important to note that all services have been included without any attempt to rank, or weight them.
In some instances, parts of a service/process cannot be made electronic at present, owing to technical capability, legislative, or policy reasons.
Where there is a genuine exclusion, a category/commitment will be counted as fully e-enabled, if all other parts of the service/process are e-enabled.
Departments' have identified 669 services to the Citizen, or Business that either are e-enabled, or not yet e-enabled.
The number of ESD services may fluctuate upwards or downwards due to the dynamic nature of the services provided to both Citizens and Business, and can be attributed as follows:
The Quarter 4 2003 survey highlights 476 (71%) ESD services e-enabled now, and that Departments' continue to work towards the target for all Government services to be available electronically by 2005.
Author: Sanjay Vaghela
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