Value for Money in Government _ - OECD _ OCDE

Foreword
Table of contents
Executive summary
Introduction to the “value for money” review of Australia
	The Value for Money study
	Sources of information
	Variety of institutions, common language
	Building on basics
	Contents of the assessment
	Notes
	Bibliography
Benchmarking employment, expenditures and revenues in Australia’s public administration
	Basic features
	General government employment
	General government expenditures
	General government revenues
	Notes
	Bibliography
Overview of previous public administration reforms in Australia
	The Coombs vision: devolution, accountability and performance (1974-1987)
	Emergence of top-down budgeting (1987-1996)
	The contract state: accrual outcome budgeting (1996-2009)
	Toward strategic government: ahead of the game (2009 to present)
	Note
	Bibliography
Reform priorities and recommendations for value for money in Australia’s government
	Ten priorities for reform
	Reform 1: Stricter rules with regard to ministerial advisors
	Reform 2: A more consistent division of roles and responsibilities between levels of government
	Reform 3: Integration of executive and professional expertise in policy development
	Reform 4: Development of the Parliamentary Budget Office
	Reform 5: Process sharing among agencies and merging of agencies
	Reform 6: Service sharing among agencies
	Reform 7: Strengthening the spending review procedure
	Reform 8: Strengthening ICT management
	Reform 9: Improving risk management in supervisory and regulatory activities
	Reform 10: Separation of budgeting from output steering in agencies
	Survey of the reforms
	Notes
	Bibliography
Glossary