All parts of the public sector need to continue to seek and implement ways to deliver higher quality public services with the resources that are available. This means enhancing value for money and the whole public sector has been set a target of achieving at least 3% per annum value for money gains during the 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review period, all of which should be cash-releasing, i.e. free up resources that can be redeployed elsewhere. Therefore this indicator defines the total net value of ongoing cash-releasing value for money gains that have impacted since the start of the 2008-09 Financial Year. Good performance is typified by higher numbers.
