Vote Justice - Supplementary Estimates 2019/20

Vote Justice

Details of Appropriations and Capital Injections

Annual Appropriations and Forecast Permanent Appropriations

Capital Injection Authorisations

Supporting Information

Part 1 - Vote as a Whole

1.2 - Trends in the Vote

Summary of Financial Activity

Part 2 - Details of Departmental Appropriations

2.1 - Departmental Output Expenses

Administration of Legal Services (M42)

Scope of Appropriation

Expenses and Revenue

Reasons for Change in Appropriation

This appropriation decreased by $1.192 million to $29.554 million for 2019/20 due to:

• a fiscally neutral adjustment of $1.364 million to reflect the allocation of Ministry overheads in 2019/20.

This was partially offset by:

• a fiscally neutral adjustment of $129,000 for employees seconded to other government agencies, and
• a fiscally neutral adjustment of $43,000 from the Vote Courts District Court Part-time or Acting Judges' Salaries and Allowance appropriation to address increased ICT security costs.

Establishing the Criminal Cases Review Commission (M42)

Scope of Appropriation

Expenses and Revenue

What is Intended to be Achieved with this Appropriation

This appropriation is intended to achieve the establishment of New Zealand's Criminal Cases Review Commission.

How Performance will be Assessed and End of Year Reporting Requirements

End of Year Performance Reporting

Performance information for this appropriation will be reported by the Ministry of Justice in its Annual Report.

Reasons for Change in Appropriation

This is a new appropriation for 2019/20 of $911,000. Changes to this appropriation are due to:

• funding of $951,000 for establishing the Criminal Cases Review Commission.

This was partially offset by:

• an expense transfer of $40,000 from 2019/20 to 2020/21 due to the timing of legislation to establish the Commission.

Justice and Emergency Agencies Property and Shared Services (M42)

Scope of Appropriation

Expenses and Revenue

Reasons for Change in Appropriation

This appropriation increased by $3.716 million to $38.810 million for 2019/20 due to:

• an expense transfer of $5.619 million from 2018/19 to 2019/20 of the prior year operating surplus to offset cost pressures
• an increase in capital charge of $1.045 million due to the revaluation of land and buildings as at 30 June 2019, and
• a fiscally neutral adjustment of $2,000 from the Vote Courts, District Court Part-time or Acting Judges' Salaries and Allowance appropriation to address increased ICT security costs.

This was partially offset by:

• a fiscally neutral adjustment of $2.950 million to reflect the allocation of Ministry overheads in 2019/20.

Public Defence Service (M42)

Scope of Appropriation

Expenses and Revenue

Reasons for Change in Appropriation

This appropriation increased by $4.072 million to $38.702 million for 2019/20 due to:

• a fiscally neutral adjustment of $3.940 million to reflect the allocation of Ministry overheads in 2019/20
• a fiscally neutral adjustment of $57,000 from the Vote Courts, District Court Part-time or Acting Judges' Salaries and Allowance appropriation to address increased ICT security costs
• a fiscally neutral adjustment of $49,000 for employees seconded to other government agencies, and
• an increase of $26,000 to scope and set-up an additional Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Court in Waikato, funded from the Proceeds of Crime Fund.

Public Provision of Referendum-Related Information (M42)

Scope of Appropriation

Expenses and Revenue

What is Intended to be Achieved with this Appropriation

This appropriation is intended to achieve the provision of factual and impartial public information for referendums initiated by the government, or through a referendum statute enacted by Parliament.

How Performance will be Assessed and End of Year Reporting Requirements

Note 1 - The public information programme includes sign-posting publicity in the two to three-month period immediately before the referendums, as well as the official referendum website, the development of explanatory materials and use of a contact centre.

End of Year Performance Reporting

Performance information for this appropriation will be reported by the Ministry of Justice in its Annual Report.

Reasons for Change in Appropriation

This is a new appropriation for 2019/20 of $3.960 million. Changes to this appropriation are due to:

• additional funding of $3.508 million for the provision of information to the public relating to the Cannabis Legalisation and Control Bill referendum and the End of Life Choice Act referendum, and
• a fiscally neutral adjustment of $452,000 from the Justice Policy Advice appropriation for the provision of information to the public relating to the Cannabis Legalisation and Control Bill referendum and the End of Life Choice Act referendum.

Reducing Family Violence and Sexual Violence (M42)

Scope of Appropriation

How Performance will be Assessed and End of Year Reporting Requirements

Reasons for Change in Appropriation

This appropriation increased by $2.619 million to $7.619 million for 2019/20 due to:

• an expense transfer of $1.040 million from 2018/19 to 2019/20 to reflect the timing of expenditure for the formulation and establishment of the Family Violence and Sexual Violence Joint Venture, and the completion of the ICT prototype for multi-agency family violence information sharing, safety planning and service referral
• a fiscally neutral adjustment of $946,000 to reflect the allocation of Ministry overheads in 2019/20
• an expense transfer of $450,000 from 2018/19 to 2019/20 for the workforce capability plan for agencies that come into contact with victims, perpetrators and children affected by violence
• an increase of $300,000 from the Violence Prevention Needs of Diverse Communities tagged contingency to undertake co-design and engagement with diverse communities
• an increase of $284,000 to resource the design, engagement and implementation work for family violence integrated community responses, and
• a fiscally neutral adjustment of $3,000 from the Vote Courts, District Court Part-time or Acting Judges' Salaries and Allowance appropriation to address increased ICT security costs.

This was partially offset by:

• a fiscally neutral adjustment of $284,000 to Vote Social Development to resource the design, engagement and implementation work for family violence integrated community responses, and
• a fiscally neutral adjustment of $120,000 to Vote Police to complete phase two of the Safer Sooner project.

Sector Leadership and Support (M42)

Scope of Appropriation

Expenses and Revenue

Reasons for Change in Appropriation

This appropriation increased by $3.516 million to $15.428 million for 2019/20 due to:

• an increase of $2.620 million from the Effective Justice Fund tagged contingency to extend the Hapaitia te Oranga Tangata programme to sustain and broaden the public conversation on criminal justice reform
• an expense transfer of $800,000 from 2018/19 to 2019/20 for Hapaitia te Oranga Tangata - the Safe and Effective Justice programme due to the delay of Turuki! Turuki!, the final report from Te Uepu Hapai i te Ora - Safe and Effective Justice Advisory Group
• a fiscally neutral adjustment of $360,000 to fund the Auckland Justice Sector Leaders Board
• a fiscally neutral adjustment of $112,000 for employees seconded to other government agencies
• an expense transfer of $106,000 from 2018/19 to 2019/20 for the Service Innovation through Behavioural Insights programme
• a fiscally neutral adjustment of $9,000 to reflect the allocation of Ministry overheads in 2019/20, and
• a fiscally neutral adjustment of $9,000 from the Vote Courts, District Court Part-time or Acting Judges' Salaries and Allowance appropriation to address increased ICT security costs.

This was partially offset by:

• an expense transfer of $500,000 from 2019/20 to 2020/21 to reflect the timing of the mana orite co-design model and the impacts of the Te Uepu Hapai i te Ora report within the Hapaitia te Oranga Tangata - the Safe and Effective Justice programme.

2.3 - Departmental Capital Expenditure and Capital Injections

Ministry of Justice - Capital Expenditure PLA (M42)

Scope of Appropriation

Capital Expenditure

Reasons for Change in Appropriation

This appropriation increased by $24.766 million to $89.110 million, due to the change in the phasing of the Ministry's capital work programme.

Capital Injections and Movements in Departmental Net Assets

Ministry of Justice

Part 3 - Details of Non-Departmental Appropriations

3.1 - Non-Departmental Output Expenses

Crime Prevention and Community Safety Programmes (M42)

Scope of Appropriation

Reasons for Change in Appropriation

This appropriation decreased by $750,000 to $15.431 million for 2019/20 due to:

• a fiscally neutral adjustment of $500,000 to address cost pressures in the Services from the Independent Police Conduct Authority appropriation, and
• a fiscally neutral adjustment of $250,000 to Vote Police to expand the Oho Ake programme to prevent offending by tamariki and rangatahi.

Electoral Services (M42)

Scope of Appropriation

How Performance will be Assessed and End of Year Reporting Requirements

Reasons for Change in Appropriation

This appropriation increased by $29.235 million to $75.518 million for 2019/20 due to:

• an increase of $27.828 million for the 2020 General Election, and
• an increase of $1.407 million for the provision of information to the public relating to the Cannabis Legalisation and Control Bill referendum and the End of Life Choice Act 2019 referendum.

Family Dispute Resolution Services (M42)

Scope of Appropriation

How Performance will be Assessed and End of Year Reporting Requirements

Note 1 - The Standard has been updated to align with the service level agreement with the service provider.

Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security (M42)

Scope of Appropriation

Reasons for Change in Appropriation

This appropriation increased by $45,000 to $1.293 million for 2019/20 due to an expense transfer from 2018/19 to 2019/20 for the delay in the relocation of the office of the Inspector General of Intelligence and Security to new premises as part of the Wellington Accommodation Project.

Legal Aid (M42)

Scope of Appropriation

Components of the Appropriation

Reasons for Change in Appropriation

This appropriation increased by $10.096 million to $201.698 million for 2019/20 due to additional funding received to address Legal Aid cost pressures.

Services from the Criminal Cases Review Commission (M42)

Scope of Appropriation

Expenses

What is Intended to be Achieved with this Appropriation

This appropriation is intended to achieve the operation of the independent review of suspected miscarriages of justice and any secondary functions outlined in the statute.

How Performance will be Assessed and End of Year Reporting Requirements

An exemption was granted under s15D(2)(b)(iii) of the Public Finance Act 1989, as the amount of this annual appropriation for a non-departmental output expense is less than $5 million.

Reasons for Change in Appropriation

This is a new appropriation of $801,000 for 2019/20 for the operational costs of the Criminal Cases Review Commission.

Services from the Human Rights Commission (M42)

Scope of Appropriation

How Performance will be Assessed and End of Year Reporting Requirements

Note 1 - Baseline is 12,000.

Reasons for Change in Appropriation

This appropriation increased by $3.370 million to $14.466 million for 2019/20 due to:

• a fiscally neutral adjustment of $3.200 million from the Vote Courts District Court Part-time or Acting Judges' Salaries and Allowance appropriation to undertake work on hate speech and discrimination, and for the second phase of the 'Give Nothing to Racism' campaign, and
• funding of $170,000 from the Migrant Levy for research into the drivers of migrants' experience of discrimination.

Services from the Independent Police Conduct Authority (M42)

Scope of Appropriation

How Performance will be Assessed and End of Year Reporting Requirements

Note 1 - There are four categories of complaint. Historically these have been defined as 1,2,4 and 5 (Category 3 is no longer in use). However, from 1 July 2019, these definitions have changed to categories A,B,C and D.

Reasons for Change in Appropriation

This appropriation increased by $500,000 to $5.171 million for 2019/20 due to a fiscally neutral adjustment from Crime Prevention and Community Safety Programmes appropriation to address cost pressures.

Services from the Privacy Commissioner (M42)

Scope of Appropriation

How Performance will be Assessed and End of Year Reporting Requirements

Note 1 - This measure has been removed as it is not in the Privacy Commissioner's 2019/20 Statement of Performance Expectations.

Note 2 - The Standard has been updated to align with the target in the Privacy Commissioner's 2019/20 Statement of Performance Expectations.

Reasons for Change in Appropriation

This appropriation increased by $738,000 to $5.708 million for 2019/20 to provide for the implementation of the new Privacy Act.

Support and Assistance provided by Victim Support to Victims of Crime (M42)

Scope of Appropriation

Reasons for Change in Appropriation

This appropriation increased by $1.271 million to $10.717 million for 2019/20 due to:

• an increase of $2.010 million for increased demand for services and grants provided by Victim Support resulting from increased demand following the Christchurch terror attacks, and
• an expense transfer of $348,000 from 2018/19 to 2019/20 for increased operational costs for Victim Support following the Christchurch terror attacks.

This was partially offset by:

• a fiscally neutral adjustment of $1.087 million to Victims' Services appropriation for the expansion of Homicide Caseworker services.

3.4 - Non-Departmental Other Expenses

Remuneration for the Inspector-General and the Deputy Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security PLA (M42)

Scope of Appropriation

Reasons for Change in Appropriation

This appropriation increased by $8,000 to $644,000 for 2019/20 due to new determinations issued by the Remuneration Authority for the positions of Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security and Deputy Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security, effective from 1 July 2018.

Victims' Services (M42)

Scope of Appropriation

Reasons for Change in Appropriation

This appropriation increased by $4.217 million to $10.066 million for 2019/20 due to:

• an increase of $4.330 million for increased demand for services and grants provided by Victim Support resulting from increased demand following the Christchurch terror attacks, and
• a fiscally neutral adjustment of $1.087 million from the Support and Assistance provided by Victim Support appropriation for the expansion of Homicide Caseworker services.

This was partially offset by:

• an expense transfer of $1.200 million from 2019/20 to 2020/21 to ensure existing grants and services can be maintained in 2020/21 on victims' services.

3.5 - Non-Departmental Capital Expenditure

Capital Expenditure Criminal Cases Review Commission (M42)

Scope of Appropriation

Capital Expenditure

What is Intended to be Achieved with this Appropriation

This appropriation is intended to achieve the efficient management of capital investment in the establishment of the Criminal Cases Review Commission.

How Performance will be Assessed and End of Year Reporting Requirements

An exemption was granted under s15D(2)(b)(iii) of the Public Finance Act as the amount of this annual appropriation for non-departmental capital expenditure is less than $15 million.

Reasons for Change in Appropriation

This is a new appropriation of $1.689 million for 2019/20 for capital investment in the establishment of the Criminal Cases Review Commission.

Part 4 - Details of Multi-Category Expenses and Capital Expenditure

Multi-Category Expenses and Capital Expenditure

Justice Policy Advice and Related Services (M42)

Overarching Purpose Statement

Scope of Appropriation

Expenses, Revenue and Capital Expenditure

How Performance will be Assessed for this Appropriation

What is Intended to be Achieved with each Category and How Performance will be Assessed

Note 1 - This indicator provides a standardised score for technical quality reviews of policy advice, which are undertaken by a third party assessor. The review may include an assessment of clarity, accuracy, analytical rigour, fitness for purpose, and relevance.

Reasons for Change in Appropriation

This appropriation decreased by $9,000 to $26.807 million for 2019/20 due to:

• an expense transfer of $2.500 million from 2019/20 to 2020/21 to reflect the development of policy proposals to support the first step for Hapaitia te Oranga Tangata - the Safe and Effective Justice, criminal justice reform programme
• an expense transfer of $550,000 from 2019/20 to 2020/21 to fund short and medium-term actions to achieve the objectives of the national strategy on Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism and the Keep our Money Clean campaign, and
• a fiscally neutral adjustment of $452,000 to the Public Provision of Referendum-Related Information appropriation for the provision of information to the public relating to the Cannabis Legalisation and Control Bill referendum and the End of Life Choice Act 2019 referendum.

This was partially offset by:

• an expense transfer of $900,000 from 2018/19 to 2019/20 for Hapaitia te Oranga Tangata - the Safe and Effective Justice programme due to the delay of Turuki! Turuki!, the final report from Te Uepu Hapai i te Ora - Safe and Effective Justice Advisory Group
• a fiscally neutral adjustment of $805,000 to reflect the allocation of Ministry overheads in 2019/20
• an expense transfer of $500,000 from 2018/19 to 2019/20 to account for further development of the regulatory model for the Referendum on Cannabis
• an increase of $452,000 for public information to be provided in relation to the Cannabis Legalisation and Control Bill referendum and the End of Life Choice Act 2019 referendum
• an expense transfer of $300,000 from 2018/19 to 2019/20 for the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism - Phase 2
• a fiscally neutral adjustment of $300,000 from Vote Courts, Courts, Tribunals and Other Authorities Services, including the Collection and Enforcement of Fines and Civil Debts Services MCA appropriation to fund the work on phase two of the Law Commission's recommendations on sexual violence proceedings
• a fiscally neutral adjustment of $150,000 from Vote Security Intelligence to support the Counter Terrorism programme
• a fiscally neutral adjustment of $61,000 for employees seconded to other government agencies, and
• a fiscally neutral adjustment of $25,000 from the Vote Courts, District Court Part-time or Acting Judges' Salaries and Allowance appropriation to address increased ICT security costs.

Maori Crown Relations (M98)

Overarching Purpose Statement

Scope of Appropriation

Expenses, Revenue and Capital Expenditure

What is Intended to be Achieved with each Category and How Performance will be Assessed

Note 1 - This indicator provides a standardised score for technical quality reviews of policy advice, which are undertaken by a third-party assessor. The review may include an assessment of clarity, accuracy, analytical rigour, fitness for purpose, and relevance.

Reasons for Change in Appropriation

This appropriation decreased by $976,000 to $6.785 million for 2019/20 due to:

• a fiscally neutral adjustment of $1.200 million to Vote Maori Development to support the COVID-19 Maori Response Package.

This was partially offset by:

• a fiscally neutral adjustment of $219,000 to reflect the allocation of Ministry overheads in 2019/20, and
• a fiscally neutral adjustment of $5,000 from the Vote Courts, District Court Part-time or Acting Judges' Salaries and Allowance appropriation to address increased ICT security costs.