CHAPTER 2 – DEPARTMENTAL PEFORMANCE
STATEMENTS
This chapter presents departmental performance statements that describe the objectives
departments seek to achieve over the medium-term, the goods and services (outputs)
departments are being funded to deliver these objectives, and associated performance
indicators and targets.
Chapter 1 of Budget Paper No. 3 describes the new initiatives that will be funded in 2013-14
and makes links with the base funding departments receive for ongoing programs. The
departmental performance statements published in this chapter describe the services
delivered by Government and, where relevant, have been updated to reflect the new
initiatives in Chapter 1.
The restructuring of the public service, effective 1 July 2013, continues the Government’s
reform agenda and is designed to strengthen the focus on jobs and investment and
increase the effectiveness and efficiency of service delivery. The performance statements
included in this chapter have been updated for these changes. Further information
describing the impact on performance statements is detailed below.
Performance measures for each output are divided into Quality, Quantity, Timeliness and
Cost categories. The performance measures help collectively describe the services being
delivered and how they are measured. The 2013-14 Target articulates what the
Government seeks or expects to achieve in the coming year. Each measure also provides
historical data, such as the 2012-13 Target and the 2012-13 Expected Outcome. This
allows assessment of a department’s performance over the previous year against the target
for that period.
Reforms to performance reporting
The Government is continuing to reform departmental performance statements, building
on reforms in previous years to improve the accountability and transparency of
performance reporting including enhancing the role of the Public Accounts and Estimates
Committee to review all proposed discontinued performance measures and the provision
of budget papers and historical performance measures online in readily usable formats.
In 2013-14, the Government has introduced the use of objective indicators to indicate
progress in the achievement of objectives.
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While there are inevitable limitations in using a small number of metrics to assess a
department’s progress in achieving its objectives, the use of objective indicators will
support the measurement and management of departmental performance over the
medium-term. Progress figures will be published in each department’s annual report in the
2012-13 period and future periods.
Output movements as a result of machinery of government changes
Machinery of government changes take effect on 1 July 2013. The departmental
performance statements published in this chapter are organised according to the new
structure of the Victorian Public Service.
From 1 July 2013 all outputs that are currently delivered by the Department of
Sustainability and Environment will be delivered by the Department of Environment and
Primary Industries, with the exception of one output which will be delivered by the
Department of Transport, Planning and Local Infrastructure.
Similarly, all outputs currently delivered by the Department of Business and Innovation
will be delivered by the Department of State Development, Business and Innovation, with
the exception of one output which will be partially delivered by the Department of
Treasury and Finance.
In addition, all outputs currently delivered by the Department of Transport will be
delivered by the Department of Transport, Planning and Local Infrastructure. Outputs
currently delivered by the Department of Primary Industries will be delivered by the
Department of Environment and Primary Industries and the Department of State
Development, Business and Innovation.
Outputs currently delivered by the Department of Planning and Community
Development will be delivered by the Department of Premier and Cabinet, the
Department of State Development and Business Innovation , the Department of
Transport, Planning and Local Infrastructure and the Department of Human Services.
Footnotes for outputs and performance measures that have moved as a result of the
machinery of government changes indicate which department was previously responsible
for delivering the service described.
The table below provides an overview of the movement of outputs between departments.
Movement of outputs as a result of machinery of government changes
Outputs
Old Department
Entire outputs moved between departments
Veterans’ Affairs
Department of Planning and
Community Development
Aboriginal Affairs
Department of Planning and
Community Development
Regional Development
Department of Planning and
and Regional Cities
Community Development
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Department of Premier and
Cabinet
Department of Premier and
Cabinet
Department of State
Development and Business
Innovation
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Outputs
Planning, Building and
Heritage
Local Government
Sport and Recreation
Land Victoria
Office of the Victorian
Government Architect
Old Department
Department of Planning and
Community Development
Department of Planning and
Community Development
Department of Planning and
Community Development
Department of Sustainability
and Environment
Department of Premier and
Cabinet
Outputs split between departments
Community Development Department of Planning and
Community Development
Primary Industries Policy
Department of Primary
Industries
Strategic and Applied
Research
Department of Primary
Industries
Practice Change
Department of Primary
Industries
Regulation and
Compliance
Department of Primary
Industries
Employment and
Industrial Relations
Department of Business and
Innovation
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New Department
Department of Transport,
Planning and Local Infrastructure
Department of Transport,
Planning and Local Infrastructure
Department of Transport,
Planning and Local Infrastructure
Department of Transport,
Planning and Local Infrastructure
Department of Transport,
Planning and Local Infrastructure
Department of Human Services
Department of Transport,
Planning and Local Infrastructure
Department of State
Development and Business
Innovation
Department of State
Development and Business
Innovation
Department of Environment and
Primary Industries
Department of State
Development and Business
Innovation
Department of Environment and
Primary Industries
Department of State
Development and Business
Innovation
Department of Environment and
Primary Industries
Department of State
Development and Business
Innovation
Department of Environment and
Primary Industries
Department of State
Development and Business
Innovation
Department of Treasury and
Finance
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Table 2.1:
Changes to outputs by department
Table 2.1 reflects the recent machinery of government (MOG) changes and shows that
across government, outputs have reduced by 11 from 127 in 2012-13 to 116 in 2013-14.
Department
Existing departments
Department of Education and Early Childhood
Development
Department of Health
Department of Human Services
Department of Justice
Department of Premier and Cabinet
Outputs Outputs
Net
2012-13 2013-14 movement
Reason for
change
7
7
0
No change
24
15
16
13
24
10
16
12
0
(5)
0
(1)
10
6
10
6
0
0
No change
Restructure
No Change
MOG/
Restructure
No change
No change
6
0
(6)
MOG
Department of Planning and Community
Development
Department of Primary Industries
7
0
(7)
MOG
4
0
(4)
MOG
Department of Sustainability and
Environment
Department of Transport
9
0
(9)
MOG
10
0
(10)
MOG
0
8
8
0
8
8
0
15
15
MOG/
Restructure
MOG/
Restructure
MOG/
Restructure
127
116
(11)
Department of Treasury and Finance
Parliament/VAGO
Old departments
Department Business and Innovation
New departments
Department of Environment and Primary
Industries
Department of State Development, Business
and Innovation
Department of Transport, Planning and Local
Infrastructure
Total
As the 2013-14 Budget reflects the full impact of the machinery of government changes
effective from 1 July 2013, care needs to be taken when comparing these figures to
unadjusted 2012-13 estimates. Footnotes have been included for tables where there has
been a significant impact on the 2013-14 estimates from the changes.
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The machinery of government changes include the merging of functions of the
Department of Planning and Community Development and the Department of Primary
Industries into various other departments, which have been factored into the statements
in the manner mentioned above. In addition, the following name changes were effected by
Order in Council on 9 April 2013 and new department names have been included in the
tables:

Department of State Development, Business and Innovation, formerly the
Department of Business and Innovation;

Department of Transport, Planning and Local Infrastructure, formerly the
Department of Transport; and

Department of Environment and Primary Industries, formerly the Department of
Sustainability and Environment.
Other matters to note
Performance measures that are proposed to be substantially changed or discontinued in
2013-14 are identified in ‘Appendix A Output performance measures for review by the
Public Accounts and Estimates Committee’.
Situations where it is appropriate to substantially change or discontinue a performance
measure include:

where a current measure can be replaced by a more appropriate measure and the new
measure will provide more meaningful information to the Parliament and the public;

it is no longer relevant due to a change in Government policy or priorities and/or
departmental objectives;

milestones, projects or programs have been completed, substantially changed, or
discontinued; and

funding is not provided in the current budget for the continuation of the initiative.
In the main, substantially changed or discontinued measures have been amended or
replaced by new measures that provide a stronger basis for evaluation of performance in
the delivery of services to the community.
When reading the performance statements, ‘nm’ refers to a new performance measure and
‘na’ refers to data either not being available or not applicable in the specified year. Where a
department has included a new measure in 2013-14, historical performance data has been
provided, where available, to assist with analysis of the department’s performance over
time.
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