Services

Current list of eligible contracted-out services Published 10 January 2003 - effective from 2 December 2002

Included for VAT recovery is the supply of leased accommodation for more than 21 years combined with a service listed

Accounting, invoicing and related services
Administration of the following:
Career Development loans
Certificates of Experience
Government support payments to the Railway Industry Pension Funds
Grants and awards
Services supplied under the Companies Acts and the Patent and Trademarks Acts
Teachers' Superannuation Scheme
Vehicle Excise Duty refunds
Winter fuel payments scheme
Inherited State Earnings Related Pension Scheme
Student Loan Scheme
Fast Track Teaching Programme
Administration and collection of toll charges
Aerial photographic surveys and aerial surveillance
Agricultural services of the kind normally carried out by the Farming and Rural Conservation Agency
Alteration, repair and maintenance of road schemes, except (a) any works carried out pursuant to an agreement made under section 278 of the Highways Act 1980, or (b) works involving construction on land not already used for road schemes

Careers guidance, mentoring and counselling to help people into work as part of the New Deal and ONE service
Cartographic services
Cash in transit services
Catering
Ceremonial services
Childcare services
Collection, delivery and distribution services
Computer services supplied to the specification of the recipient, including the provision of a fully managed and serviced computer infrastructure
Conference and exhibition services

Debt collection
Departmental staff records and payroll systems including administration and payment of pensions

Employment advisory services as directed by the Race Relations Act 1976
Engineering and related process services
Environmental research and protection services of the kind normally carried out for the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Estate management services
Export intelligence services

Insolvency services
Inspection of woodland sites for approval of felling licence applications and of timber imports/imports using timber packing to prevent entry of foreign tree pests and diseases
Interpretation and translation services
Issue of documents to, and control of, bingo halls and off-course bookmakers
Issue of documents under Wireless and Telegraphy Act

Office removals
Operation and maintenance of static test facilities, engineering and support services and test range industrial support and security/safety services including those acquired for the purposes of research and development
Operation and maintenance of stores depots
Operation of hospitals, health care establishments and health care facilities and the provision of any related services
Operation of prisons, detention centres and remand centres, including medical services
Original research undertaken in order to gain knowledge and understanding

Passenger transport services
Pest control services
Photographic, reprographic, graphics and design services
Preparation and despatch of forms
Press cutting services
Professional services, including those of any manager, adviser, expert, specialist or consultant
Provision under a PFI agreement of accommodation for office or other governmental use, together with management or other services in connection with that accommodation
Publicity services
Purchasing and procurement services

Radio services
Recruitment and relocation of staff and other related services
Research, testing, inspection, certification and approval work for the Health and Safety Executive

Scientific research of the kind normally carried out for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Standards Agency>
Security Services
Services of printing, copying, reproducing or mailing any documents or publications, including typesetting services
Services relating to Action Teams for Jobs and Employment Zones
Share Registry Survey
Storage, distribution and goods disposal services
Surveying, certification and registration in connection with ships and relevant record-keeping and verification, issue of certification, cards, discharge books and campaign medals to seamen

Training, tuition or education
Transport research of the kind normally carried out for the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Travel services, excluding hotel accommodation and fares
Travel and transport surveys, including traffic census counts
Typing, secretarial, telephonist and clerical services including agency Staff