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1. PORTFOLIO BUDGET STATEMENTS 2008 09 HUMAN SERVICES PORTFOLIO BUDGET INITIATIVES AND EXPLANATIONS OF APPROPRIATIONS SPECIFIED BY AGENCY BY OUTCOME BUDGET RELATED PAPER NO 1 11 Commonwealth of Australia 2008 ISBN 978 1742076539 This work is copyright Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968 no part may be reproduced by any process without prior written permission from the Commonwealth Requests and inquiries concerning reproduction and rights should be addressed to the Commonwealth Copyright Administration Attorney General s Department Robert Garran Offices National Circuit Canberra ACT 2600 Website www ag gov au cca Printed by CanPrint Communications Pty Ltd RAA zA SENATOR THE HON JOE LUDWIG Minister for Human Services Manager of Government Business in the Senate Senator for Queensland President of the Senate Australian Senate Parliament House CANBERRA ACT 2600 Speaker House of Representatives Parliament House CANBERRA ACT 2600 Dear Mr President Dear Mr Speaker I hereby submit Portfolio Budget Statements in support of the 2008 09 Budget for the Human Services Portfolio These statements have been developed and are submitted to the Parliament as a statement on the outcomes for the portfolio I present these statements by virtue of my ministerial responsibility for accountability to the Parliament and through it the public Yours sincerely JOE LUDWIG Minist2. ations in Appropriation Bills No 1 and No 2 2008 09 or Appropriation Bill Parliamentary Departments No 1 2008 09 for the parliamentary departments In this sense the PB Statements are Budget related papers and are declared by the Appropriation Acts to be relevant documents to the interpretation of the Acts according to section 15AB of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 The PB Statements provide information explanation and justification to enable Parliament to understand the purpose of each outcome proposed in the Bills As required under section 12 of the Charter of Budget Honesty Act 1998 non general government sector entities are not consolidated into the Commonwealth general government sector fiscal estimates and accordingly these entities are not reported in the PB Statements User Guide Portfolio Budget Statements STRUCTURE OF THE PORTFOLIO BUDGET STATEMENTS The Portfolio Budget Statements have been revised for the 2008 09 Budget with significant changes made to reduce the work load on agencies and to provide Parliament with more targeted and comprehensive information on government expenditure Included below is a brief outline of each section of the revised document Portfolio overview The portfolio overview is largely unchanged with portfolio departments required to briefly outline the responsibilities of the portfolio list the relevant agencies and Ministers and the resources available Agency Resources and Planne
3. d Performance A statement under the name of the agency for each agency within the Portfolio Section 1 Agency e This section includes three components overview and 1 1 Strategic Direction for 2008 09 resources 1 2 Resource Statement and 1 3 Measures Table e The intention of section one is to provide readers with an overview of the functions and responsibilities of the agency its contribution towards its outcomes for the budget year and the resources available Inthe Strategic Direction for 2008 09 agencies are to present a narrative approach rather than being restricted to a fixed number of headings The key emphasis is on telling the agency story the key strategies it is implementing to achieve its outcomes what is involved and how success and progress are to be measured e The agency resource statement and measures table summarise resource information into two tables Agencies are to use the new agency resource statement which details the source and nature of the all resources available to the agency Budget Measures information is to reflect the information covered in Budget Paper 2 with the output group against which the measures are to be pursued included to improve cross referencing User Guide Portfolio Budget Statements Agency Resources and Planned Performance continued Section 2 Outcomes and Planned Performance Section 3 Explanatory tables and budgeted financial statements Glo
4. er for H an Services Telephone 02 6277 7200 Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 Facsimile 02 6273 4406 Abbreviations and conventions The following notation may be used NEC nec not elsewhere classified nil not zero but rounded to zero na not applicable unless otherwise specified nfp not for publication m million b billion Figures in tables and in the text may be rounded Figures in text are generally rounded to one decimal place whereas figures in tables are generally rounded to the nearest thousand Discrepancies in tables between totals and sums of components are due to rounding Enquiries Should you have any enquiries regarding this publication please contact the Chief Financial Officer in the Department of Human Services on 02 6223 4000 A copy of this document can be located on the Australian Government Budget website at http www budget gov au vi USER GUIDE TO THE PORTFOLIO BUDGET STATEMENTS USER GUIDE The purpose of the 2008 09 Portfolio Budget Statements PB Statements is to inform Senators and Members of Parliament of the proposed allocation of resources to Government outcomes by agencies within the portfolio Agencies receive resources from the annual appropriations acts special appropriations including standing appropriations and special accounts and revenue from other sources A key role of the PB Statements is to facilitate the understanding of proposed annual appropri
5. he property plant equipment and intangibles statements are no longer mandatory in the financial statements This change has been made because for the majority of agencies the information provided was of little value Agencies with significant investment programs and or balance sheets may continue using the statements to better explain their overall position Explains key terms relevant to the Portfolio xi CONTENTS Portfolio Overview een reihen 1 Human Services Portfolio 3 Agency Resources and Planned Performance 7 Department of Human 9 Gentrelink Hu Nm era kn ren 55 Medicare Australia a ae 87 GOSS any De naa 115 xiii
6. ssary The outcomes section has undergone significant change to re orientate agency reporting towards their results in contributing to outcomes and away from focusing on the activities and processes of agencies The outcome resource statement provides lower level resourcing information for general users at the results level grouped by output group rather than appropriation type as has been the case previously Following the outcome resource statement agencies will use output groups for each outcome to group their intended contributions and the performance indicators used to assess the agency s effectiveness By focusing on the results and impacts agencies are making towards outcomes the revised PB Statements will be more focused on how agencies contribute to outcomes rather than detailing activities This section has been reworked to increase the readability of technical financial information The section now includes an explanation of any differences at agency level between the information included in the Budget Papers and the PB Statements arising from the use ofthe GFS and AAS accounting methodologies and explanatory tables to provide supplementary information on the reconciliation between total available appropriation and outcome attribution the re phasing and use of appropriations special account flows and Australian Government Indigenous Expenditure It should also be noted that the capital budget statement and t
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