Appendix B - LIST OF REQUIREMENTS

Agencies are required to prepare annual reports for parliament consistent with requirements approved by the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit and published by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Table 18 sets out the page numbers corresponding to each of the annual report requirements.

Table 18 – List of requirements
Description		Page
	Letter of transmittal	iii
	Table of contents	iv
	Index	128
	Glossary	122-127
	Contact officer(s)	ii
	Internet home page address and Internet address for report	ii
Review by Secretary
	President’s report	2-4
	Summary of significant issues and developments	2-4
	Overview of department’s performance and financial results	vi-vii, 14-16
	Outlook for following year	4
	Significant issues and developments – portfolio	N/A
Departmental Overview
	Role and functions	6-12
	Organisational structure	44
	Outcome and programme structure	14
	Where outcome and programme structures differ from PB Statements/PAES or other portfolio statements accompanying any other additional appropriation bills (other portfolio statements), details of variation and reasons for change	N/A
	Portfolio structure	N/A
Report on Performance
	Review of performance during the year in relation to programmes and contribution to outcomes	14-33
	Actual performance in relation to deliverables and KPIs set out in PB Statements/PAES or other portfolio statements	15
	Where performance targets differ from the PBS/PAES, details of both former and new targets, and reasons for the change	N/A
	Narrative discussion and analysis of performance	14-33
	Trend information	15, 16, 25, 31
	Significant changes in nature of principal functions/services	3-4, 32, 38
	Performance of purchaser/provider arrangements	52
	Factors, events or trends influencing departmental performance	14-32
	Contribution of risk management in achieving objectives	37-38
	Performance against service charter customer service standards, complaints data, and the department’s response to complaints	28-30
	Discussion and analysis of the department’s financial performance	15
	Discussion of any significant changes in financial results from the prior year, from budget or anticipated to have a significant impact on future operations	N/A
	Agency resource statement and summary resource tables by outcomes	56
Management and Accountability
Corporate Governance
	Agency heads are required to certify that their agency complies with the ‘Commonwealth Fraud Control Guidelines’	38
	Statement of the main corporate governance practices in place	36
	Names of the senior executive and their responsibilities	36
	Senior management committees and their roles	36-37
	Corporate and operational plans and associated performance reporting and review	37
	Internal audit arrangements including approach adopted to identifying areas of significant financial or operational risk and arrangements to manage those risks	37-38
	Policy and practices on the establishment and maintenance of appropriate ethical standards	37
	How nature and amount of remuneration for SES officers is determined	46
External Scrutiny
	Significant developments in external scrutiny	39
	Judicial decisions and decisions of administrative tribunals and by the Australian Information Commissioner	24-27
	Reports by the Auditor-General, a Parliamentary Committee. the Commonwealth Ombudsman or an agency capability review	31-32, 39
Management of Human Resources
	Assessment of effectiveness in managing and developing human resources to achieve departmental objectives	39-50
	Workforce planning, staff retention and turnover	43-44
	Impact and features of enterprise or collective agreements, individual flexibility arrangements (IFAs), determinations, common law contracts and Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs)	46-47
	Training and development undertaken and its impact	45-46
	Work health and safety performance	48
	Productivity gains	2-3, 10-11, 32-33
	Statistics on staffing	42-43
	Enterprise or collective agreements, IFAs, determinations, common law contracts and AWAs	46-47
	Performance pay	46-47
Assets management	Assessment of effectiveness of assets management	51
Purchasing	Assessment of purchasing against core policies and principles	50-51
Consultants	The annual report must include a summary statement detailing the number of new consultancy services contracts let during the year; the total actual expenditure on all new consultancy contracts let during the year (inclusive of GST); the number of ongoing consultancy contracts that were active in the reporting year; and the total actual expenditure in the reporting year on the ongoing consultancy contracts (inclusive of GST). The annual report must include a statement noting that information on contracts and consultancies is available through the AusTender website	52
Australian National Audit Office Access Clauses	Absence of provisions in contracts allowing access by the Auditor-General	51
Exempt contracts	Contracts exempted from publication in AusTender	50
Small business	Procurement initiatives to support small business	51
Financial Statements	Financial Statements	59-110
Other Mandatory Information
	Work health and safety (Schedule 2, Part 4 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011)	48
	Advertising and Market Research (Section 311A of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918) and statement on advertising campaigns	53
	Ecologically sustainable development and environmental performance (Section 516A of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999)	50
	Compliance with the agency’s obligations under the Carer Recognition Act 2010	N/A
	Grant programmes	53
	Disability reporting – explicit and transparent reference to agencylevel information available through other reporting mechanisms	49-50
	Information Publication Scheme statement	39
	Correction of material errors in previous annual report	53
	Agency Resource Statements and Resources for Outcomes	56
	List of Requirements	119-121