The Prime Minister's Delivery Unit (PMDU) was a

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institution in the

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, providing support to the

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delivery. It was created in June 2001 to monitor progress on and strengthen the British government's capacity to deliver on key campaign priorities of Prime Minister

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's second-term government: education, health, crime and transport. The Unit reported to the

through the Head of the Civil Service (the Cabinet Secretary). The Unit was abolished in 2010. It was headed by the Prime Minister's Chief Adviser on Delivery, who was initially Professor

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. He left in mid-2005 and was replaced by

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, the head of the Cabinet Office Delivery and Transformation Group, in January 2006. Following Ian Watmore's departure in mid-2007, Ray Shostak CBE was appointed to the lead the unit. It worked alongside the

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. The Unit worked in partnership with the

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, 10 Downing Street, the Cabinet Office and stakeholder departments within the

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, to assess delivery and provide performance management for the Government's top public priorities. From 2006 to 2010, the Unit was also jointly responsible for monitoring performance across all the indicators in the

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s. The Unit was abolished by the Coalition Government in October 2010, with remaining staff re-allocated to th
Performance and Reform Unit in HM Treasury
Public Service Agreements were also abolished in June 2010. Ray Shostak left the Unit in December 2010 to join Core Assets Group.

, a former chief executive of

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, was appointed Chief Operating Officer of the

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in June 2010.

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