Oral Question·Northern Ireland Office
“What plans her Department has to enable Northern Ireland to reduce its public sector fiscal deficit.”
Tabled: 22 January 2019Answered: 30 January 2019
Asked by
Sir Edward Leigh
Conservative — Gainsborough
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
Answer from Hansard
The Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Office (Satvir Kaur)
Departments are responsible for setting their own performance plans, subject to centrally set performance management frameworks. This Government are focused on a high-performing civil service, which is why we have recently announced changes to the senior civil service performance system that will see the performance of top civil servants linked to key performance indicators set by their Ministers, and underperformers held to tougher standards.