Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps she is taking to deliver the efficiency gains required by HM Treasury. [77043]

Damian Green MP; Minister of State for Immigration[holding answer 27 October 2011]: The Home Office is delivering efficiency gains by having the right systems and controls in place for budget allocation, robust business planning, scrutiny of spending proposals, investment decisions, monitoring and challenging discretionary spend, interventions to improve productivity and value for money in our activities, managed work force reductions and improved procurement of goods and services