2019-20 Financial and Performance Outcomes General Questionnaire
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DJCS 2019-20 Financial and Performance Outcomes General Questionnaire Department of Justice and Community Safety 5 February 2021 1 of 213 DJCS Contents Contents .............................................................................................................................................................. i Introduction – Financial and Performance Outcomes Questionnaire .............................................................. 1 Section A: Output variances and program outcomes ....................................................................................... 2 Section B: Asset investment ............................................................................................................................ 43 Section C: Revenue and appropriations .......................................................................................................... 81 Section D: Expenses ......................................................................................................................................... 89 Section E: Overall financial performance ...................................................................................................... 114 Section F: Public sector workforce ................................................................................................................ 116 Section G: Government decisions impacting on the finances ....................................................................... 125 Section H: General ......................................................................................................................................... 128 Section I: Implementation of previous recommendations ........................................................................... 205 Section J: Department of Treasury and Finance only .................................................................................... 208 Section K: Treasury Corporation of Victoria only .......................................................................................... 211 PAEC General Questionnaire | Department of Justice and Community Safety i 5 February 2021 2 of 213 DJCS Introduction – Financial and Performance Outcomes Questionnaire The Committee’s inquiry into the 2019-20 Financial and Performance Outcomes examines: • the Government’s actual expenditure and revenue compared to the budgeted expenditure and revenue • the actual performance outcomes against the targeted performance outcomes at a departmental/agency level. The inquiry aims to benefit the Parliament and the community by: • promoting the accountability, transparency and integrity of the executive and the public sector • encouraging the effective and efficient delivery of public services and assets. This questionnaire seeks information on the departmental/agency financials for the 2019-20 financial year, what was achieved during those years and how that compares to expectations. Timeline and format Responses to this questionnaire are due by 5.00pm on Monday 1 February 2021. Please email the completed questionnaire (in word and pdf) to [email protected] Please also email a signed copy. Consistency with the budget papers Wherever referring to an initiative/program/project that is referred to in the budget papers, please use the same name as is used in the budget papers. This ensures that the Committee can correlate the information provided by the department with the information in the budget papers. Basis of consolidation For departments, please use the same basis of consolidation as was used in the budget papers and in the budget portfolio outcomes statement in the department’s annual report. Guidance Please contact the secretariat should you require guidance in relation to any questions: Janithri Wickramaratne, Lead Analyst Ph 8682 2996 Igor Dosen, Analyst Ph 8682 2788 Charlotte Lever, Analyst Ph 8682 2872 PAEC General Questionnaire | Department of Justice and Community Safety| 1 5 February 2021 3 of 213 DJCS Section A: Output variances and program outcomes Question 1 (all departments) Completed output initiatives from past budgets a) For all initiatives that were completed in 2019-20, please provide details of the outcomes achieved in the community and the outcomes actually achieved to date. Please use initiatives names as specified in Budget Paper No.3: Service Delivery and link the initiative to the responsible output(s) and portfolio(s). Department of Justice and Community Safety1 Year and funding Actual date of allocated Output(s) and Initiative completion Expected outcomes Actual outcomes Budget Funding portfolio(s) (month and year) year allocated 2019-20 DJCS 2019-20 2.734m June 2020 Legal assistance provided to Legal assistance provided to Output: Public Victoria Legal Aid young people facing the enable young people to Prosecutions and Legal (VLA) – Youth criminal justice system, access youth diversion Assistance Justice Reducing ensuring they are represented options, as a preferred option Portfolio: Attorney- Offending at relevant hearings of the to custodial sentences. General Children’s Court, as required Representation enables these under the Children, Youth and matters to be heard Families Act 2005. The efficiently and effectively in Victorian Budget 2020-21 the court. extended this funding to June 2021. Improved 2017-18 2.700m June 2020 The Victorian Commission for The VCGLR completed the Output: Gambling and regulation of Gambling and Liquor third and final phase of the Liquor Regulation Victoria’s gambling Regulation (VCGLR) to Risk-Based Framework Portfolio: Consumer and liquor maintain and improve Implementation, the Affairs, Gaming and industries. regulatory services, enhance Gambling Framework: New Liquor Regulation Funding will be the effectiveness of its Product Approvals – provided to the regulatory interventions and Electronic Gaming Machines. Victorian This framework and the 1 This question refers to only departmental appropriation and how that appropriation was applied to those financial years and therefore is not applicable to the Victorian WorkCover Authority (WorkSafe). The Victorian WorkCover Authority (WorkSafe) is not funded within the department’s appropriation; instead it is classified as a Public Financial Corporation (PFC). PFCs provide goods and services while meeting commercial principles through cost recovery via user charges and fees which are received directly by the PFC. PAEC General Questionnaire | Department of Justice and Community Safety| 2 5 February 2021 4 of 213 DJCS Department of Justice and Community Safety1 Year and funding Actual date of allocated Output(s) and Initiative completion Expected outcomes Actual outcomes Budget Funding portfolio(s) (month and year) year allocated Commission for address gambling and liquor- liquor and gambling Gambling and related harm. frameworks that were Liquor Regulation completed in 2017-18 and over four years for 2018-19 are successfully enhanced deployed ensuring that compliance and regulatory services are licensing activities. provided equitably and efficiently, and address harms associated with gambling and liquor industries. Regulating gambling 2018-19 3.511m June 2020 Maintaining an appropriate The VCGLR achieved five of Output: Gambling and and liquor. The level of staffing during 2019- its 14 BP3 output measures. Liquor Regulation VCGLR will receive 20 to deliver BP3 output Bushfires in regional Victoria Portfolio: Consumer funding to maintain measures, and to maintain and COVID-19 significantly Affairs, Gaming and and improve its and improve regulatory impacted the achievement of Liquor Regulation regulatory services services. targets. and enhance the effectiveness of its regulatory interventions. PAEC General Questionnaire | Department of Justice and Community Safety| 3 5 February 2021 5 of 213 DJCS Department of Justice and Community Safety1 Year and funding Actual date of allocated Output(s) and Initiative completion Expected outcomes Actual outcomes Budget Funding portfolio(s) (month and year) year allocated Provisional 2019-20 2.5m The Pilot due to The Pilot aims to improve the The evaluation of the Pilot Output: Policing and Payments Pilot end on 30 June WorkCover claim experience found that it facilitated early Crime Prevention 0.500m 2020 was for injured emergency service access to treatment and Portfolio: Workplace was extended for a workers by facilitating early support for the injured Safety rephased further 12 treatment while a claim is workers. It also into 2020- months and will being determined, in order to demonstrated that 21 to now cease on 30 achieve better health and participants whose claim was support the June 2021. return to work outcomes. rejected, nevertheless extension continued to access of the Pilot. treatment. Strengthened Youth 2016-17 29.4m June 2018 A new intensive monitoring In 2019–20, DJCS continued Outputs: Youth Justice Justice Response Budget bail supervision scheme to to support young people Community Based Update manage young people who sentenced to a YCO, Services & Youth (p.117) come into contact with the providing intensive case Justice Custodial youth justice system in the management support Services community while awaiting services. Introduced as a new Portfolio: Youth Justice trial. A Youth Control Order sentencing option in June (YCO) will provide a new more 2018. intensive and targeted supervision sentencing option for the Children’s Court. Aboriginal Family 2018-19 0.303 June 2020 Aboriginal led development of Victorian Aboriginal Child Output: