6. Processes to support compliance with reporting requirements
Departments annually review their performance information and have processes to check if they comply with the RMF’s requirements.
However, our analysis of updates to the 2024–25 performance statements shows that these processes do not support departments to consistently meet the RMF’s requirements.
Some departments told us they find it difficult to meet some of the RMF’s requirements and review their performance information within required timeframes.
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5. DTF's performance statement
DTF’s performance statement helps users understand its role of providing financial, economic and commercial advice to the government. And its performance measures provide insights into the quality, quantity and timeliness of its performance.
However, we identified that 67 per cent of performance measures do not give users the information they need to meaningfully assess DTF’s performance over time. We also could not reproduce DTF’s results for 61 per cent of its published performance measures, which means we cannot assure the accuracy of these results.
4. Changes to performance information in 2024–25
All departments introduced new performance measures in 2024–25 that do not comply with some of the RMF’s reporting requirements. Nine departments amended their objectives or performance measures and either did not explain the changes or explained them incorrectly.
As a result, some information published in the 2024–25 Department Performance Statement does not allow users to properly understand and assess departments’ service delivery performance.
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