Title: Administrative Appeals Tribunal Annual Report 2012-13 Appendix 5 [RTF version]
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Appendix 5: 
Resourcing Tables
The Tribunal has one outcome specified in the 2012–13 Portfolio Budget Statements:
Access to a fair, just, economical, informal and quick review mechanism for applicants through reviews of government administrative decisions, including dispute resolution processes and independent formal hearings.
The Tribunal is a single program agency. The primary deliverable is completed reviews of decisions, and there are two paths to achieving it:
•	applications finalised without a hearing
•	applications finalised with a hearing.
Resource Statements
Table A5.1 shows the Tribunal’s various sources of funding.
Table A5.1	Tribunal resource statement – 2012–13
| Actual available appropriation for 2012–13 $’000 | Payments made 2012–13 $’000 | Balance remaining 2012–13 $’000
| (a) | (b) | (a)-(b)
Ordinary Annual Services^1 | | |
Departmental appropriation^2 | 46,664 | 34,311 | 12,353
Total Available Annual Appropriations and payments | 46,664 | 34,311 |
Special appropriations | | |
Special appropriations limited by entitlement FMA Act 1997 s28(2) | | 279 |
Total special appropriations | | 279 |
Total net resourcing and payments for Administrative Appeals Tribunal | 46,664 | 34,590 |

1	Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2012–13 and Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2012–13. Includes $11.183m from prior periods and $1.939m in S.31 agency receipts.
2 	Includes an amount of $0.465m in 2012–13 for the Departmental Capital Budget. For accounting purposes this amount has been designated as ‘contributions by owners’.
Expenses by Outcomes
Table A5.2 shows how the 2012–13 budget appropriations for the Tribunal translate to total resourcing for the Tribunal’s outcome, including administered expenses, revenue from the government (appropriation), revenue from other sources and the total price of the programs.
Table A5.2	Expenses for Outcome 1

Outcome 1: Access to a fair, just, economical, informal and quick review mechanism for applicants through reviews of government administrative decisions, including dispute resolution processes and independent formal hearings.

Budget* 2012–13 
$’000

Actual Expenses 2012–13 
$’000

Variation 2012–13 
$’000

| (a) | (b) | (a) – (b)
Program 1.1: Administrative Appeals Tribunal
Administered expenses | | |
Special appropriations | 700 | 279 | 421
Departmental expenses | | |
Departmental appropriation^1 | 34,162 | 34,497 | (335)
Expenses not requiring appropriation in the Budget year | 3,206 | 3,306 | (100)
Total expenses for Outcome 1 | 38,068 | 38,082 | (14)
| 2011–12 | 2012–13 |
Average Staffing Level (number) | 158 | 160 |
* Full year budget, including any subsequent adjustment made to the 2012–13 Budget.
^1 Departmental appropriation combines ‘Ordinary annual services (Appropriation Bill No. 1)’ and ‘Revenue from independent sources (s31)’.