Measuring and Reporting on Service Delivery
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This audit assessed if the way Victorian government departments measure and report on their service delivery support accountability and good decision-making.
Management of Spending in Response to COVID-19
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This audit assessed if agency spending in response to COVID-19, including through the Treasurer’s Advance, has been used for its stated purpose and complies with relevant laws and policies.
Business Continuity During COVID-19
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This audit assessed if agencies’ business continuity arrangements enabled the continuation of essential public services during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic state of emergency.
Major Projects Performance
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This audit assessed if public sector reporting of major capital projects contains relevant and sufficient information to enable Parliament to understand project performance against approved scope, cost, time and benefit expectations.
Appendix C. Agency responses to Assurance Review
To gather relevant information for this review we conducted a survey for agencies in November 2019. Agencies were required to self-attest to the accuracy and completeness of their survey response.
The survey sought information on agency governance and monitoring arrangements along with information on the status of performance audit recommendations:
Appendix B. Audits and agencies
Figure B1
2017–18 audits and agencies
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Date tabled |
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Assessing Benefits from the Regional Rail Link Project |
Appendix A. Submissions and comments
We have consulted with the agencies listed in Appendix B, and we considered their views when reaching our review findings. As required the Audit Act 1994, we gave a draft copy of this report, or relevant extracts, to those agencies and asked for their submissions and comments.
Responsibility for the accuracy, fairness and balance of those comments rests solely with the agency head.
Responses were received as follows:
3 Monitoring and oversight of recommendations
We asked the 64 agencies included in this review to provide information on how they monitor the implementation of performance audit recommendations.
This Part provides information on how agencies allocate responsibility for tracking proposed actions. We also considered what arrangements are in place for agencies to review progress and close off recommendations when complete.
2 Agency responses to recommendations
This Part provides information on the extent to which agencies accept and implement our performance audit recommendations, including their timeliness.
2.1 Conclusion
Nothing has come to our attention to indicate that, overall, agencies are not effectively implementing past performance audit recommendations.
Most agencies accepted audit recommendations and have taken action to complete or progress their implementation. However, this action is not always timely, which all agencies can work to improve.
1 Context
We published 71 performance audits between 2015–16 and 2017–18.
In this review, we examined progress made by agencies on recommendations from 44 of those audits—including the 17 performance audit reports we published in 2017–18, for which we assessed the status of recommendations for the first time. The other 27 are audits from earlier years that had recommendations outstanding.