STATEMENT OF FORECAST SERVICE PERFORMANCE FOR 2006/2007

VOTE ACC

Output class: Policy and monitoring

Scope

This output class includes policy, purchase and monitoring advice, research and evaluation, and ministerial servicing on the ACC scheme, and the performance of the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC).

The following elements will be required to achieve high-performing workplaces:

All parties having a shared understanding of the factors that lead to workplace productivity and an agreement on goals.
Labour market participants having information and guidance that is tailored, targeted and useful to increase awareness and uptake of excellent workplace practices, in order to effectively reduce occupational injuries and disease.
Responsive regulation of the ACC scheme that supports economic and social development.
More investment in research, evaluation, analysis and performance data about what is working or not working in the labour market.

Increased labour market participation will result from:

enhancing parents’ and other carers’ choices about work and family arrangements
enhancing employment for groups under-represented in the labour force.

The Department contributes to these goals by:

providing policy, purchase and monitoring advice that contributes to reducing injury in New Zealand workplaces, assisting those who are injured to return to work, and ensuring levies are fair. This assists workplaces to effectively balance employers’ and employees’ needs and interests.
providing policy advice and monitoring the implementation of policy for the ACC scheme
including vocational rehabilitation to assist people who are unable to return to their pre-injury occupation.

Contribution to the long-term goals

These services contribute to the Department’s long-term goals:

Our workplaces: New Zealand workplaces will lead the world in maximising the value of work while providing a high-quality working life.

Our workforce: The skills of our workers will ensure that New Zealand enterprises are leaders internationally.

Our people: All New Zealanders will be able to grow and develop through access to well-paid and meaningful employment.

Contribution to the medium-term priorities

These services contribute to supporting and promoting the transformation of New Zealand workplaces to become high-performing and to achieve high-quality working lives by focusing on the workplace productivity drivers, including skills, safe and healthy workplace cultures, decent work, and excellent employment relationships.

Activities

We do this by:

providing policy advice on the ACC scheme’s regulation, ACC policies and practices, and interfaces with the health and welfare systems, and the workplace health and safety system
evaluating the impact of the ACC scheme and the ACC’s activities in meeting the Government’s objectives for injury prevention, rehabilitation and compensation, and wider social and economic goals
providing purchase advice on, and monitoring of, the performance of the ACC to assist the Minister for ACC to achieve the Government’s objectives
managing the ACC board appointment process on behalf of the Minister for ACC
administering the ACC scheme’s legislation, and developing relevant regulatory changes on an annual basis (e.g. levy changes) providing secretariat and advisory support for stakeholder interest groups.

Performance measures	Forecast standards
The Minister for ACC is satisfied with the quality of the Department’s policy advice. Appendix 1 sets out the quality standard for policy advice.	Meet standard
The Minister for ACC is satisfied with the quality of the Department’s purchase advice and monitoring	Meet standard
The Minister for ACC is satisfied with the quality of the Department’s ministerial servicing.	Meet standard
Policy, purchase advice, monitoring and ministerial servicing will be delivered.	As agreed with the Minister for ACC and as detailed in the Vote: ACC Output Plan for 2006/07

COSTS

$000 (FIGURES ARE GST EXCLUSIVE)	Estimated Actuals for Year ending 30 June 2006	Forecast for Year ending 30 June 2007
Revenue:
Crown	2,615	2,615
Department	31	31
Other	-	-
Total Revenue	2,646	2,646
Total Expenses	2,146	2,646

Output class: Regulatory services

Scope

This output class includes meeting the residual long-term responsibilities of the Accident Insurance Regulator by managing the Crown’s on-going risks resulting from the introduction of the competitive accident insurance market during 1999/2000.

Responsive labour market regulation supports economic and social development, which contributes to higher-performing workplaces. For New Zealand to become a world leader in workforce and workplace performance, workplace participants must develop an understanding of and demonstrate excellent workplace practices.

Contribution to the long-term goals

These services contributes to the Department’s long-term goals:

Our workplaces: New Zealand workplaces will lead the world in maximising the value of work while providing a high-quality working life.

Our people: All New Zealanders will be able to grow and develop through access to well-paid and meaningful employment.

Contribution to the medium-term priorities

Activities

We do this by:

liaising with key stakeholders and responding to non-ministerial enquiries and complaints
residual collection of non-compliers’ penalties
residual information management and servicing information requests
responding to any enquiries and complaints related to the competitive accident insurance market introduced in 1999/2000
administering the Insolvent Insurers Fund, should this be invoked.

Performance measures	Forecast standards
The Regulator will respond to complaints and enquiries within five days of receipt, including responding within five days of receipt to notices of insurers failing to comply with their obligation under the 1998 Act.	Meet standard

COSTS

$000 (FIGURES ARE GST EXCLUSIVE)	Estimated Actuals for Year ending 30 June 2006	Forecast for Year ending 30 June 2007
Revenue:
Crown	130	130
Department	-	=
Other	-	-
Total Revenue	130	130
Total Expenses	130	130