Vote: Sport, Fitness and Leisure
Key
Departmental Output Class
D1 Policy Advice: Sport, Fitness and Leisure
Non-Departmental Activities
Output Class O1 - Drugs Testing of Sports Persons
Output Class O2 - Sport, Fitness and Leisure Programmes
Other Expense - Miscellaneous Grants
Benefits and Unrequited Expenses
Output Class D1 - Policy Advice: Sport, Fitness and Leisure
This output class involves the provision of advice on sport, fitness and leisure, including:
- the impact of other policies, international sporting events, the purchase of high performance sports and drug testing services;
- the government's interests as owner of the Hillary Commission and the Sports Drug Agency; and
- payments from the Minister's discretionary fund.
Quantity, Quality, Timeliness and Cost
Details of performance against the generic standards and measures for policy advice provided by the Ministry of Economic Development for this Vote (Quantity, Quality and Timeliness) can be found in the section Policy Advice and Ministerial Servicing.
Specific deliverables relating to the agreed work programme are outlined below.
Work Programme
All policy advice projects were delivered in accordance with the terms of the work programme as agreed with the Minister.
Key deliverables in the work programme for the year included:
Implementation of government decisions arising from the review of the sports, fitness and leisure sector. A new Crown entity for sports and recreation is operational by 31 December 2001.
The Ministry assisted with the drafting of legislation to establish a new sport and recreation agency and advised the Select Committee during its consideration of the legislation in the second half of 2001. The Bill was reported back from the Select Committee on 28 February 2002 and was still awaiting its second reading when the House rose in June 2002. In the meantime, the Board appointed to lead the new agency has been operating under the current legislation, the Sport, Fitness and Leisure Act 1987.
Responsibility for monitoring the new agency transferred to the Ministry for Culture and Heritage on 1 January 2002.
Supporting the passage of amendments to the sport drug testing legislation. Legislation is drafted by 31 December 2001.
A draft report, New Zealand Sports Drug Agency Legislative Development Project, was completed in October 2001 to inform the policy process for development of the new legislation. At 31 December 2001 a legislation bid had been submitted.
Responsibility for supporting the passage of amendments to the sport drug testing legislation has moved to the new sport and recreation agency in the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.
Monitoring and providing policy advice on the performance of the Hillary Commission and the New Zealand Sports Drug Agency.
The Report on the Hillary Commission's performance to 30 June 2001 was presented to the Minister in November 2001.
Responsibility for monitoring and providing policy advice on the agencies transferred to the Ministry for Culture and Heritage on 1 January 2002.
Cost
| | 2002
Main
Estimates | 2002
Supple-
mentary
Estimates | 2002
Actual | 2001
Actual |
|---|
| | $000 | $000 | $000 | $000 |
| Revenue: | | | | |
| Crown | 338 | 193 | 193 | 581 |
| Other | - | - | - | 1 |
| Total Revenue | 338 | 193 | 193 | 582 |
| Expenses: | | | | |
| Annual appropriations | 338 | 193 | 193 | 582 |
| Other appropriations | - | - | - | - |
| Total Expenses | 338 | 193 | 193 | 582 |
| Net Surplus/(Deficit) | - | - | - | - |
Major Budget Variances
The Supplementary Estimates decrease reflects the transfer of responsibility for advice and monitoring to the Ministry for Culture and Heritage (-$49,000), the transfer of funds to Non Departmental Output Class O1 Drugs Testing of Sports Persons (-$20,000) and the transfer of funding to Vote: Tourism, D1 Policy Advice - Tourism for costs relating to the America's Cup Regatta 2003 "One Stop Shop" (-$76,000).
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