The Cabinet Office has yet to start monitoring overall progress of the government’s Shared Services Strategy. The Cabinet Office has no performance indicators that measure strategy progress. Shared services performance measures consider only business-as-usual service provision such as payroll accuracy, invoice accuracy, end- user satisfaction, government transfers and mobility of services, as well as a further 40 measures. These measures do not allow the Cabinet Office to understand the progr...

The Cabinet Office has yet to start monitoring overall progress of the government’s Shared Services Strategy. The Cabinet Office has no performance indicators that measure strategy progress. Shared services performance measures consider only business-as-usual service provision such as payroll accuracy, invoice accuracy, end- user satisfaction, government transfers and mobility of services, as well as a further 40 measures. These measures do not allow the Cabinet Office to understand the progress being made on this major programme of change. For example, there are no indicators to monitor progress on data and process standardisation. The Cabin Type: conclusion | Number: 5 | Response status: accepted Government response: The government agrees with the Committee’s recommendation. recognition that these measures need to evolve as the Strategy is implemented. At the time of the NAO report, the focus on performance and quality was baselining current performance across back-office systems a