INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES 2012/13

Name Department

Ursula Brennan Ministry of Justice

1. Business delivery objectives: Performance Measures: Milestones:

 Enable the delivery of Ministers’ priorities, as set out in  Feedback from Secretary of State,  Agree budget allocation with ministers Ministry of Justice’s (MoJ’s) 2011-2015 Business Plan departmental ministers, No 10, and the department’s Transforming Justice programme, , Lead NED, Cabinet including in particular the Justice Secretary’s five Secretary and Head of the Civil priorities, with personal focus on: Service

o Implementation of reforms to the sentencing framework and delivery of reforms to community  Ministers supported to deliver at sentences to make them more effective. least 90% of actions in MoJ’s 2011- 15 Business Plan o Development of Rehabilitation Revolution to  Publication of HM Government’s response to significantly reduce re-offending, working with other  Costed, practical, proposals the probation review consultation – Autumn government departments on drugs, mental health developed for delivery of community 2012 and employment issues and using Payment by sentencing legislation Results.  Publication of justice outcome information  Proposals to deliver a rehabilitation alongside street-level crime data on the o Development of further reforms to reduce costs and revolution using PbR developed by Police.uk portal – Spring / Summer 2012 improve effectiveness in legal aid, the youth justice end 2012; programme, governance system and the running of prisons and courts and legislation, and implementation tribunals. plans developed to agreed timelines

o Development of a package of reforms to the  Proposals on legal aid, youth Criminal Justice System, with the Home Office and justice, prisons and courts  & Attorney General’s Office, to deliver a more tribunals developed by early 2013; effective, less costly, more transparent and programme, governance, legislation responsive system. & implementation plans developed to agreed timelines. o Working with the judiciary to increase judicial diversity.

 Criminal Justice System (CJS) o Reviewing the operation of Freedom of Information reform package developed to and Judicial Review to ensure that the protection of satisfaction of trilateral Ministers civil liberties is delivered as effectively and efficiently as possible.  Burdens of Freedom of Information (FoI) and Judicial Review (JR) analysed; options for reform developed to Ministerial satisfaction

2. Corporate objectives: Performance Measures: Milestones:

 Ensure the delivery of departmental efficiency savings,  Feedback from other Permanent  Launch of next phase of competition by: Secretaries, Head of the Civil Service, programme – Autumn 2012 Cabinet Secretary and the Minister for o Tracking and managing performance through the the Cabinet Office  Implementation of the Financial Improvement Board and Executive Management Committee; Plan - April 2013

o Using the Transforming Justice programme to  Agreed efficiency savings delivered on  Review of agency performance at quarterly continue to implement new methods of delivering time. Departmental Board meetings. services and to increase focus on Lean front line delivery; and  Agency Key Performance Indicators and commitments delivered, as listed o Ensuring effective and timely delivery of legal aid in their 2012/2013 business plans reform

 Transforming Justice programme  Secure the effective delivery of the agreed Efficiency and drives increased focus throughout  As agreed with the Cabinet Office. Reform Action plan for in MoJ. MoJ on cost of outcomes

 As agreed with the Cabinet Office

 3600 feedback from SofS, non- executive directors, Permanent Secretaries and Head of Civil Service

 Ensure the delivery of high quality justice services to the  Legal aid policy changes and public through the department’s executive agencies: organisational changes delivered in National Offender Management Service (NOMS); HM good order Court and Tribunal Service (HMCTS); and Legal Services Commission (LSC).

 SMART objectives, reflecting ministerial policies, in place for senior  Effective contribution to Civil Service Senior Leadership civil service, and cascaded below by Committee and wider civil service leadership managers

 Delivery of Civil Service Reform objectives

3. Capability building objectives: Performance Measures: Milestones:

 Ensure that the department has the capability it needs  MoJ capability strengthened and  MoJ’s Capability Action Plan published – to deliver. This will include: performance improved through Spring 2012 implementation of improvement o Building capability in key specialist skills; plans (’People Plan’, Capability  People Plan published – autumn 2012 Action Plan and Financial o Maintaining our current level of staff Improvement Plan) engagement;  Staff engagement score remains o Continuing to embed new talent management above 53% with improvement in arrangements throughout MoJ’s Senior Civil worst performing areas Service; and  9 box grids used effectively to o Continuing to build develop the effectiveness of manage talent the Executive Management Committee of the Board as the executive leadership of the  Positive feedback from non- department executive directors and Ministers on departmental governance arrangements.

 Senior Civil Servants delivering against clear and  Effective accountability mechanism measurable objectives in place, ensuring senior leaders are delivering against all of their objectives

 Radically improved performance management  Improved performance management with managers encouraging and rewarding good performance, while dealing rigorously with poor performers