| Department |
DEFRA |
DEFRA |
DEFRA |
DEFRA |
| MPA RAG rating
(A Delivery Confidence Assessment of the project at a fixed point in time, using a five-point scale, Red Amber/Red Amber Amber/Green Green; definitions in the MPA Annual Report) |
Green |
Amber |
Amber |
Amber |
| Description / aims |
To move British Waterways in England and Wales from a public corporation into a new charity to increase the self-sufficiency of the body managing the waterways, and move the canals and the associated heritage infrastructure to the new charity; allow the organisation more freedom to be entrepreneurial and raise funds from diverse sources, including an increase in volunteering; safeguard environmental benefits such as wildlife habitats, flood alleviation and drainage; support localism and give waterways users and the communities that live alongside waterways a greater say in how they are managed; safeguard and promote access opportunities and recreation, conserve heritage; secure the future sustainability of the network as a whole. |
To procure and implement a joined-up solution to deliver the IT solution component underpinning the delivery of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP2013) reforms (i.e. for the processing, payment and accounting of claims for funding of Pillar 1 and 2 schemes that are administered across the Defra Network). The programme also focuses on improving the quality of services to customers, ensuring good VfM and operating any new scheme(s) without adverse impact on other aspects of Defra's business. |
An Environment Agency programme to procure a 10-year asset management programme of flood defence works on the tidal Thames. The proposal is to seek greater efficiencies through innovative ways of working with the supply chain to deliver a more integrated programme of necessary refurbishment and replacement works.
This is the first phase of a much longer-term Plan for managing tidal flood risk in London and the Thames Estuary to the year 2100 and beyond. The cost of maintaining and improving these defences is justified by the very high value of assets protected (£200bn of property), with over 1.25million people living and working in the area at risk of flooding.
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To redevelop New Covent Garden Market, the UKs largest flower, fruit and vegetable wholesale market on a 57 acre site in Vauxhall, London. It is run by the Covent Garden Market Authority (CGMA), a fully self-financing, Defra sponsored public corporation. CGMA is undertaking a £130m redevelopment of the site and the markets accommodation. The redevelopment will provide modern market facilities (at no direct cost to the taxpayer) and will release surplus land to deliver residential units to help meet current housing needs. The project is part of the wider regeneration and development of the Vauxhall Nine Elms Opportunity Area. |
| Departmental narrative, actions on Delivery Confidence Assessment |
Project successfully completed and closed in August 2012. |
Priorities are to research and produce the Outline Business Case (necessary to obtain the next approval stage from HM Treasury and Cabinet Office); ii) developing the ten lots' procurement strategies and approaches; iii) collaborative work with delivery bodies to better understand the numerous dependencies and the monitoring plus actions required to manage these interactions; iv) considering and implementing how the Programme will jointly work on shared aims (plus dependencies) with CAP Reform and Negotiations' teams; v) identification and populating the Team's resource requirements. |
The Environment Agency has strengthened governance arrangements and procurement skills in the team. Defra SRO and senior Defra officials are engaged in project governance, and IUK and Local Partnerships are supporting the assessment of procurement options and development of the business case. A more recent MPA update concluded that progress had been made on producing a commercial case and revising the management case, but this is still work in progress. |
To mitigate risks, Defra has continued to work closely with CGMA to understand the merits of the legal challenge case and to ensure that there is a shared approach. CGMA received outline planning permission from the London Borough of Wandsworth on 18 June for their plans to redevelop the Market and to release surplus land for residential and commercial use. CGMA applied for outline planning permission for the site to help de-risk the development and it is expected to set a certain level of precedent for the planning application made by a private development partner. |
