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Efficiency

Efficiency is not about making cuts. It is about raising productivity, enhancing value for money and thereby improving public service delivery.  As a publicly funded organisation, Scottish Natural Heritage works continually to improve its efficiency, whether in our use of office space, developing streamlined processes, or making use of new technology.

The Scottish Government currently runs an Efficient Government Programme external site , which began in April 2008 and runs till March 2012.  Under this, Scottish Natural Heritage is required to achieve annual efficiency savings targets of:

   £1.27m for the year April 2008-March 2009

   £2.40m for the year April 2009-March 2010

   £3.60m for the year April 2010-March 2011

During this programme, we are required to ensure:

  • that delivering efficiency is an integral part of seeking continual improvement
  • that all efficiencies are robustly monitored and reported -that our public service is maintained, both in quality and quantity, throughout.  

In the first year, our target of £1.27m savings was exceeded.

We make the fullest use of information technology to support improved and more efficient ways of working, and to make our information and services more readily available to others.  Our Information Systems Strategy  PDF document , its Update 2008-09  PDF document  and Updates 2009-10   PDF document (Infrastructure  PDF document   and Development and Geographic Information Systems  PDF document ) set out our plans for further developing these systems.