Vote ACC
MINISTER(S) RESPONSIBLE FOR APPROPRIATIONS: Minister for ACC (M1)
ADMINISTERING DEPARTMENT: Department of Labour
MINISTER RESPONSIBLE FOR DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR: Minister of Labour
Overview of the Vote
The Minister for ACC is responsible for appropriations in the Vote for the 2011/12 financial year covering the following:
Departmental appropriations consisting of:
- a total of $2.699 million on policy advice, analysis, evaluation, research, monitoring, purchase advice, legislation and regulatory support, and ministerial servicing for the ACC scheme and the performance of ACC, and
- a total of $163,000 on purchasing services to manage the residual long-term responsibility related to the Crown's ongoing risks resulting from the introduction of the competitive accident insurance market during 1999/2000.
Non-departmental appropriations consisting of:
- a total of $67.863 million to cover the estimated cost of injury prevention, claim processing, assessment, payment and case management on the Non-Earners' Account
- a total of $11.028 million to cover the cost of injury prevention, claim lodgement and management, investment management and appropriation setting for claims by non-earners' on the Treatment Injury Account
- a total of $258.963 million to fund public health acute services for claims on the Non-Earners' Account
- a total of $766,000 to fund public health acute services for claims by non-earners' on the Treatment Injury Account
- a total of $566.291 million to cover the estimated cost of purchasing medical services, social rehabilitation, and elective health care on the Non-Earners' Account and contracted services
- a total of $169.997 million to cover the cost of purchasing medical services, social rehabilitation and elective health care services and contracted services for claims by non-earners' on the Treatment Injury Account
- a total of $4.001 million to cover the cost of income maintenance, independence allowance, and other compensation payments for claims on the Non-Earners' Account, and
- a total of $9.477 million for provision of income maintenance, independence allowance, and other compensation payments for claims by non-earners' on the Treatment Injury Account.
Details of these appropriations are set out in Parts 2-6 for Vote ACC in the Information Supporting the Estimates of Appropriations.
