Relationship to Other Documents
The chart on the following two pages shows how the Information Supporting the Estimates relates to information in other documents presented prior to the start of the financial year and to annual reports presented after the end of the financial year.
Other documents presented to the House prior to or near the start of a financial year are:
- The Estimates of Appropriations [B.5] which is presented on Budget day and is a single volume setting out details for all Votes of the individual appropriations including the type, amount, scope and period of each appropriation.
- Each department's statement of intent which is attached to the relevant sector volume of the Information Supporting the Estimates [B.5A Vol.1-Vol.10] presented on Budget day and sets out the department's future operating intentions for at least the next three financial years.
- Each Crown entity's statement of intent which is presented shortly after Budget day and sets out he Crown entity's future operating intentions for at least the next three financial years.
Annual reports presented to the House after the end of a financial year are:
- Each department's annual report and financial statements which is presented 3-4 months after the end of the financial year and includes reporting on:
- the services provided from each departmental output expense appropriation compared with what was forecast to be provided, and
- the actual expenses or capital expenditure incurred against each appropriation (and each component output class in a multi-class output appropriation) administered by the department.
- Each Crown entity's annual report and financial statements which is presented 4-5 months after the end of the financial year and includes reporting on the services supplied by the Crown entity that have been funded by the government compared with what was forecast to be provided.
- Ministers' reports under section 32A of the Public Finance Act which are presented 3 months after the end of the financial year and report on significant non-departmental appropriations where the services provided or results achieved with the expenditure authorised by the appropriation are not reported in a department's or Crown entity's annual report because the services have been provided or the funding used by a body that is not a department or Crown entity.
The chart on the next two pages shows how the Information Supporting the Estimates relates to each type of appropriation in the Estimates, to the information in statements of intent presented to the House prior to the start of a financial year, and to the annual reports presented to the House after the end of that financial year.
