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Performance audit reports
A list of the reports produced as part of the Office's scheduled work programme. Performance audits examine matters of efficiency and effectiveness, waste, probity, compliance with statutory obligations, financial prudence, or any combination of these.
- New Zealand Blood Service: Managing the safety and supply of blood products
- February 2012: We carried out a performance audit that found that the Blood Service effectively supplies safe blood and blood products to patients in our health system...
- The Treasury: Implementing and managing the Crown Retail Deposit Guarantee Scheme
- September 2011: We carried out a performance audit of the Treasury's implementation and management of the Crown Retail Deposit Guarantee Scheme, given the Scheme's significance for our economy at the time and the amount of money involved...
- Transpower New Zealand Limited: Managing risks to transmission assets
- September 2011: We audited how well Transpower is managing risks to the transmission system. We wanted to establish whether the owner and operator of the national electricity grid understood well the capacity constraints facing the grid and the risks posed by the condition of the grid assets, and was using this understanding to better maintain and invest in the grid...
- Managing freshwater quality: Challenges for regional councils
- September 2011: We carried out an audit to provide an independent view of how effectively four selected regional councils are managing and controlling land use and related activities for the purpose of maintaining and enhancing freshwater quality in their regions...
- New Zealand Transport Agency: Delivering maintenance and renewal work on the state highway
- September 2011: This is the second of two reports presenting the findings of our performance audits on NZTA's maintenance and renewal of the network...
- Government planning and support for housing on Māori land
- September 2011: We examined the effectiveness of government support for Māori seeking to build housing on their land. We found that, despite good intentions, the process to build a house on Māori land is fraught. Lessons have not been learned from past attempts, so the initiatives are not effectively targeted and the processes are not streamlined...
- Planning to meet the forecast demand for drinking water in Auckland
- August 2011: A letter from the Auditor-General to the Chief Executives of Auckland Council and Watercare Services Limited on governance issues and a report on our initial findings and recommendations for Watercare to consider when developing its long-term plans for asset management and for funding arrangements...
- Home-based support services for older people
- July 2011: We carried out a performance audit to establish how effective the Ministry of Health and district health boards are in ensuring that, where appropriate, people aged 65 and over (older people) get the care and support they need to remain living independently at home...
- New Zealand Customs Service: Providing assurance about revenue
- July 2011: We carried out a performance audit to review how effectively the New Zealand Customs Service plans and supports its revenue assurance activities...
- Inland Revenue Department: Making it easy to comply
- June 2011: We carried out a performance audit to see how effective Inland Revenue is in making it easy for taxpayers to comply with their obligations to pay tax. As part of the audit, we tested Inland Revenue's website with two groups of taxpayers – tradespeople and rental property owners – who had new tax obligations...
- Progress in delivering publicly funded scheduled services to patients
- June 2011: This report assesses progress made in achieving the government strategy "Reduced Waiting Times for Public Hospital Elective Services". There has been good progress over 10 years but there is more to do to ensure that patients are assessed in a nationally consistent way, and seen and treated in priority order...
- Ministry of Social Development: Managing the recovery of debt
- April 2011: We carried out a performance audit to assess how well the Ministry of Social Development manages the recovery of money owed to the Ministry.
- Department of Internal Affairs: Administration of two grant schemes
- November 2010: We carried out a performance audit to determine whether the Department's administration of grants is consistent with the principles and expectations that we outlined in our good practice guide, "Public sector purchases, grants, and gifts: Managing funding arrangements with external parties"...
- Spending on supplies and services by district health boards: Learning from examples
- September 2010: This report provides examples of good practice that we encourage, and some examples of poor practice, to help DHBs improve their own spending on supplies and services from external suppliers and providers...
- New Zealand Transport Agency: Information and planning for maintaining and renewing the state highway network
- September 2010: NZTA had good descriptive and condition information about the state highway roads, and it had a planning framework that enabled it to use this information for day-to-day maintenance and renewal of the road network. However, not all of its information was complete, especially for structures such as bridges and tunnels. Its long-term planning was also incomplete at the time of our audit...
- District health boards: Availability and accessibility of after-hours services
- September 2010: All DHBs have after-hours services available for 95% of the population within 60 minutes' travel time. That said, most DHBs' plans could better consider affordability and transport barriers and the risks to those after-hours services continuing...
- Inland Revenue Department: Managing child support debt
- July 2010: We carried out a performance audit to examine how effectively and efficiently the Inland Revenue Department was managing child support debt...
- Performance audits from 2008: Follow-up report
- April 2010: This report sets out the actions public entities have taken in response to the recommendations made in performance audit reports that we published during 2008...
- Effectiveness of arrangements for co-ordinating civilian maritime patrols
- April 2010: We carried out a performance audit to examine how effectively maritime patrols were co-ordinated to support New Zealand's maritime interests...
- Local authorities: Planning to meet the forecast demand for drinking water
- February 2010: We carried out a performance audit of eight local authorities to help us form a view about how well prepared the country is to meet the likely future demand for drinking water...
