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Naval Recruiting and Training Agency: Key Targets 2005–06

My honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence (Don Touhig) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. Subsequent to a proposal by the agency's owner, the Second Sea Lord and Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command, I have today set the 2005–06 key targets for the Naval Recruiting and Training Agency (NRTA), as follows:"To deliver RN personnel to the trained strength (or   to other training organisations), to the required quality standard, within 5 per cent variance from the tasked requirement.""To deliver RM recruits to within 9 per cent variance from the tasked requirement.""To maintain success rates of 95 per cent in career training (including targeted employment modules) and 97 per cent in examined pre-joining training.""To increase the trained strength of the Royal Naval Reserve to 2010.""To reduce the cost of the NRTA HQ overhead to 96 per cent of the 2003–04 baseline figure.""To achieve net benefits of £15.9 million in financial year 2005–06 from the partnering arrangement with Flagship Training Limited.""To improve to 102 the index of performance in Phase 2 and Phase 3 training delivered to Army and Royal Air Force personnel in the Defence College of Electro-Mechanical Engineering."