As coalition celebrates first anniversary, ministers say two-thirds of 1,276 'actions' set out in departmental business plans have been finished
The government is to claim that two-thirds of the 1,276 actions set out in its departmental business plans have been completed and 31% are in progress.
The claim will be made as the coalition government celebrates its first anniversary on Wednesday .
Only3% of actions are overdue, it says. The business plan set out actions the government set in train between May 2010 and April 2011.
Separately, the government will claim it has completed 26% of the 355 policy items set out in the five-year coalition programme, with 64% in progress. A further 10% have not yet been started.
The figures were reported to cabinet on Tuesday by the Treasury chief secretary, Danny Alexander, and Oliver Letwin, the Cabinet Office minister.
Alexander and Letwin have already started preliminary work on a coalition programme mark two, likely to be issued in a year or 18 months. Alexander has said he wants the Liberal Democrat contribution to focus on green issues and childcare.
Although the government says it is against a target-based culture, the business plans are seen by figures such as Steve Hilton, one of David Cameron's key advisers, as a successful way of allowing the public to see what is going on inside government. They are also intended to drive the civil service.
At the first cabinet meeting since the Liberal Democrats were hammered in the local elections and the referendum on the alternative vote, Cameron argued that the five-year coalition government has the stability to focus on issues that have held Britain back for decades.
He highlighted issues such as tackling the deficit, pensions, reforming welfare and university finances.
Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, is due to set out his thoughts on the future of the coalition in a major speech on Wednesday.
He has already said relations are going to be more businesslike, while Alexander has said the Liberal Democrats can no longer rely on the public learning about the differences within the coalition by osmosis.
Cameron told the Sun "there will be no coalition reshuffle this year", suggesting that the health secretary, Andrew Lansley, is going to oversee the changes to his health and social care bill.
The prime minister said: "I am not a great believer in endlessly moving people between different jobs. I like to think I have put together a good team of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, and there is a lot of work to do. "
Recognising that his junior partners are going to have to do more to assert their political identity following their local election losses, he predicted: "There will be more noise, more debate ... more public airing of differences."
He also called on cabinet ministers to end the feuding created by the campaign on the referendum on AV saying "it requires people to behave in a bighearted and big way – that is what we are going to do".