Management of Crown Lending and Crown Bank Accounts
Scope of Appropriation
This output class is limited to the management of Crown lending and Crown and departmental bank accounts.
Significant Work Completed During 2009/10
- Advanced $785.9 million distributed as follows: $380 million to KiwiRail, $232.6 million to DHBs, $142.8 million to Housing New Zealand Corporation and $30.5 million to the Auckland Transition Agency.
- Managed risk on $223.5 million of interest rate swaps transacted for Housing New Zealand Corporation.
| Performance Dimensions | Target | Performance for 2009/10 | ||||
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| All policy outputs comply with the Treasury's Quality Standards for Policy Advice, as assessed by the Minister three times during the year. | Rated as meeting and frequently exceeding expectations |
Not assessed in 2009/10. Refer to page 60 for further information on the application of the policy standard during 2009/10. |
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| Production of advice that provides options which allow the Government to deliver a credible fiscal strategy consistent with the fiscal prudence provisions of the Public Finance Act 1989. Where this advice is underpinned by modelling, the models are externally quality assured and, where appropriate, assumptions are tested with suitably qualified external experts. | Achieved |
Achieved. NZDMO's advice on the Government's borrowing programme was underpinned by the Treasury's fiscal and macroeconomic forecasts. The quality assurance processes for these models are discussed in the Economic and Tax Forecasting appropriation. |
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| Value-added for Crown lending meets target level. | $15 to $20 million |
Not achieved. Value-added for Crown lending was $11.9 million in 2009/10. The lower than expected result was primarily owing to reduced margins between government funding levels and its loans to Housing New Zealand Corporation. |
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| Average value at risk (VaR) for Crown lending, at a 95% confidence level (see note on VaR below). | Average monthly VaR does not exceed $1.4 million |
Achieved. Average monthly VaR was $0.2 million, or 1.4% of the limit agreed by the Minister of Finance (see notes below). |
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| Compliance with risk management policies and parameters for management of Crown lending and Crown bank accounts. | No compliance breaches |
Achieved. There were no compliance breaches. |
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| 2009/10 Actual $000 |
Supp. Estimates - Voted $000 |
Main Estimates $000 |
2008/09 Actual $000 |
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| Expenses | 205 | 360 | 906 | |||
| Funded by: | ||||||
| Revenue Crown | 200 | 354 | 890 | |||
| Other Revenue | 5 | 6 | 16 | |||
In 2009/10, the Policy Advice and Management: Macroeconomic appropriation was separated across four output classes within a Macroeconomic Policy Advice and Management MCOA. The structure was established to ensure that the macroeconomic outputs were sensibly aggregated and to allow for more comprehensive performance measures. A summary of the MCOA financials and the 2008/09 comparatives are provided on page 26.
Actual 2009/10 output class expenditure was $155,000 or 43% under the Supplementary Estimates budget owing to a lower resource allocation owing to greater emphasis on borrowing and investment work in the Administration of Crown Borrowing and Administration of Investment of Public Money output classes.
Notes:
Average VaR - performance measure
The Minister of Finance has agreed to a limit for average monthly VaR across the whole of NZDMO's operations of $14 million. NZDMO's performance target for the tactical portfolios is set at 10% of the total limit, or $1.4 million.
Value-added from Crown lending
NZDMO derives the value-added figure from its management reporting, which is calculated on a different basis from external Crown financial statement reporting.
Historic performance helps guide the establishment of future targets, which are set annually taking into account changes in the external environment.
