Performance Information for Appropriations Vote Audit
MINISTER(S) RESPONSIBLE FOR APPROPRIATIONS: Speaker of the House of Representatives (M78)
ADMINISTERING DEPARTMENT: Controller and Auditor-General
MINISTER RESPONSIBLE FOR CONTROLLER AND AUDITOR-GENERAL: Speaker of the House of Representatives
Part 1 - Summary of the Vote
Part 1.1 - Overview of the Vote
The Auditor-General is independent of the Government and is accountable to Parliament. While the Speaker is the Vote Minister for the purposes of appropriations, the Speaker's role in relation to Offices of Parliament is not the same as that of Ministers of the Crown in relation to their departments.
The Speaker cannot contract with or direct the Auditor-General as to how it should discharge its statutory duties. Thus, the explanation of the appropriations for Vote Audit reflects the Auditor-General's perspective of the outputs that will be delivered to Parliament from Vote Audit. The appropriations in this Vote were commended to the Governor-General by the House of Representatives in an address on the recommendation of the Officers of Parliament Committee.
The Speaker of the House is responsible for appropriations in the Vote for the 2008/09 financial year covering the following:
- a total of nearly $10 million for the Controller and Auditor-General supporting Parliament in its role of ensuring accountability for public resources, including advice to Select Committees and other bodies, undertaking the Controller function, plus undertaking and reporting on performance audits and inquiries relating to public entities
- a total of nearly $62 million for providing audit services to public entities, and other audit-related assurance services.
Details of these appropriations are set out in Parts 2-6 below.
