The Delivery Plan has been revised to reflect and align with our new Strategic Plan. The current version of the Delivery Plan and the ESRC Scorecard for 2010-11 can be found below.
All Research Councils published Delivery Plans as part of the 2007 Spending Review (SR2007) allocations process. The Plans set out each Council's funding priorities and outline the activities that they intend to undertake over the SR2007 period. In addition, details of the Research Councils' priorities and activities to promote and facilitate joint Council working are published in the RCUK Delivery Plan.
The Delivery Plans are part of a comprehensive Performance Management Framework which will enable OSI* to demonstrate the contribution that each Research Council is making towards achieving government targets. This Framework includes a series of performance metrics (the 'Outputs Framework') and a set of targets and milestones arising from the activities set out in the Delivery Plan (the 'Scorecard'). Data relating to the Outputs Framework will be published at the end of each financial year, commencing with 2006/07. Progress against each Research Council's Scorecard is reported to BIS and the ESRC Council quarterly.
The Delivery Plans have been developed following consultations with a broad range of stakeholders, including other Research Councils, and OSI. The Plans have been written in the context of an OSI Strategy for the Science Base, which itself draws on the Government's Science and Innovation investment framework. The Delivery Plans also take account of Research Councils' own visions and strategic priorities.
Details of the science budget allocations 2008/09-2010/11 can be found at the BIS website. This funding will help Research Councils to contribute to the aims set out in the Government's Science and Innovation framework for 2004-2014.
* Office of Science and Innovation, now the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS)
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