Parliamentary appropriations : output measures
Overview
The reporting of outputs and performance measures in the annual budget papers is at the heart of the Executive Government’s accountability to Parliament and the community. For this accountability to be effective, the output descriptions and performance measures must be relevant, appropriate and fairly representative of actual performance.
The objective of this audit was to assess whether the output performance measures for a selection of Departments were relevant, appropriate and fairly represented performance in delivering the relevant outputs specified in the 2006–07 Budget Paper No. 3, Service Delivery.