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Competitive Neutrality Conference

Competitive Neutrality Conference. DWP Finance Director General John Codling. Department for Work and Pensions. Our Purpose: Ensuring the best start for all children and ending child poverty in 20 years Promoting work and protecting those in greatest need

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Competitive Neutrality Conference

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  1. Competitive Neutrality Conference DWP Finance Director General John Codling

  2. Department for Work and Pensions • Our Purpose: • Ensuring the best start for all children and ending child poverty in 20 years • Promoting work and protecting those in greatest need • Combating poverty and promoting security and independence for pensioners • Improving rights and opportunities for disabled people

  3. DWP is one of the largest organisations, public or private, in Europe. We…. • Employ around 113,000 staff (around 25% of the UK Civil Service) on par with Shell and Barclays; • Have operating costs of around £7.5bn per annum - about the same as British Airways; • Administer pensions and benefit expenditure of around £115bn per annum, around 20% of UK Government overall expenditure or about the same as the GDP of Greece, Portugal or Ireland; and • Directly deliver a range of services to over 20 million customers

  4. DWP Key Challenges State and Private Pension reform – radically reforming the UK Pension System Welfare reform – a million more people off Incapacity Benefits and into work Opportunity for all Our People – more flexible, ambitious & customer focussed Child support reform – halving child poverty by 2020 Transforming delivery - radically improving services to citizens whilst greatly reducing our budget and headcount

  5. SR2004: Between 05/06 - 07/08 Government set the department a stretching efficiency target • Spending Review 2004 set us one of the most challenging efficiency targets in • government. • By March 2008: • Reduce our net headcount by 30,000 full time posts (over 25% of our workforce) – 24,816 reduced by Mar ’07 • Re-deploy a further 10,000 posts to customer facing roles –85% achieved by Dec ’06 • Move 4,000 posts from London and the South East – 3,933 achieved • Save £960m –£1.2b achieved by Mar ’07 All without any diminution of performance or customer service (and while simultaneously transforming our business processes) and against a background of rising demand for DWP’s services.

  6. But our CSR07 settlement was tougher still… • - 5% annual average growth – admin and programme • A cash cut of £190/380/560m (£1,130m) • A real terms cut of £400/800/1,200m (£2,400m)

  7. …and we need to go beyond -5% real Welfare Reform Child Support Pensions Reform £ m

  8. Procurement in DWP £4.2 billion per annum procurement expenditure Largest spending civil department 30% of total civil procurement Large Department with complex procurements Demanding customers High profile, highly visible

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