PLR's Corporate Plan sets out its strategic programme for the three year period 2011-15. At the heart of the Plan lies a set of core objectives aimed at meeting PLR's statutory functions as set out in the PLR Act (1979) and Scheme (1982). PLR's Core Objectives are as follows:

Core objectives 2011/2012

1. Support the Registrar in meeting the requirements of the CSR10 settlement including the target £756,000 for administration expenditure thereby maximizing funds available to authors (current estimate £6.462 million);
2. Manage PLR’s service to authors to meet statutory requirements, ensuring in particular that all applications for registrations received by the closing date are completed by 31.8.11; and aiming through PLR’s marketing strategy that authors from all backgrounds are aware of their PLR opportunity;
3. Manage PLR’s loans data collection system to meet Scheme requirements, in particular the replacement of a minimum 7 new authorities in the sample on 1.7.11 and completion of data collection for 2010-11 in time for October 2011 payment calculations;
4. Undertake payment calculations and distribution to meet target dates, principally completion of payments within UK and overseas by 29.2.12;
5. Achieve annual audit approval for the robustness of PLR’s control procedures and risk assessment to support the statement of internal control and in line with the Government Internal Audit Manual.

Developments in support of core objectives 2011/2012:

1. Develop strategic plan to facilitate transfer of responsibility for PLR to another existing public body for start date of 1 April 2012 taking into consideration changes to PLR legislation and possible impact on operations and costs in key areas;
2. Following 2010 Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR10) outcomes  agree with DCMS further savings in operational costs for 2012-15;
3. New PLR application - begin migration of PLR IT system from OpenROAD to .NET version;
4. Implementation of Content Management System.  Initiate process of importing PLR content into chosen CMS;
5. Following implementation of the Web Server, finalise migration of PLR’s key systems onto new server.

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