Progress against our 2021/22 work programme

As described in Appendix 3 of our Annual plan 2021/22

Planned work	Published title or current state	Publication date
Understanding the all-of-government response to Covid-19	Planned to be completed in 2022/23
Case studies on public sector business continuity planning in response to Covid-19	Cancelled We intended to do this work if there was capacity. The impact of Covid-19 meant we cancelled this work to divert our resources to other priorities
Further work on the Government’s roll-out of the national Covid-19 vaccination programme	Planned to be completed in 2022/23
Wage Subsidy Scheme follow-up	Implementation of recommendations – Management of the Wage Subsidy Scheme	21/12/21
Vaccine roll-out follow up	Implementation of recommendations – Preparations for the nationwide roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine	10/03/22
Understanding how well the public sector is delivering the outcomes that matter for Māori	Planned to be completed in 2022/23
Māori perspectives on public accountability	Commissioned report: Māori perspectives on public accountability	21/07/22
Whānau Ora: What has been achieved?	Planned to be completed in 2022/23
Family violence and sexual violence: How well are agencies working together and with the non-government sector to deliver services to address family violence and sexual violence?	Planned to be completed in 2022/23
Effectiveness of Te Tūāpapa Kura Kāinga Ministry of Housing and Urban Development’s leadership of the housing and urban development system	Planned to be completed in 2022/23
Planning of significant housing and urban development projects	Planned to be completed in 2023/24
How the Ministry of Education is using information to address educational disparities	Planned to be completed in 2022/23
Effectiveness of investment in mental health services	Planned to be completed in 2022/23
Health system leadership and sustainability	District health boards: Main findings from the 2019/20 audits	20/07/21
Making performance reporting more effective	The problems, progress, and potential of performance reporting	28/10/21
Landscape of the public accountability system: Second report	Building a stronger public accountability system for New Zealanders	21/10/21
Commentary on the Treasury's statement on the government's long-term fiscal position and insights briefing	Commentary on He Tirohanga Mokopuna 2021	15/03/22
Progress towards implementing the United Nations' 17 sustainable development goals	The Government's preparedness to implement the sustainable development goals	31/08/21
Local government risk management: Stocktake of approach and reporting results	Our observations on local government risk management practices	26/10/21
Climate change and local government	Rescoped, now planned to be completed in 2023/24
Completion of integrity framework and guidance	Putting integrity at the core of how public organisations operate: An integrity framework for the public sector	22/06/22
Looking at integrity processes in central government	Planned to be completed in 2022/23
Monitoring progress: Operation Respect (New Zealand Defence Force)	Planned to be completed in 2022/23
Getting it right - Managing conflicts of interest involving council employees	Getting it right: Managing conflicts of interest involving council employees	05/08/21
Governance of the Auckland City Rail Link programme	Governance of the City Rail Link project	28/06/22
Provincial Growth Fund: Reset of the Provincial Growth Fund and reprioritisation of investments	Planned to be completed in 2022/23
Systems and processes underpinning government decisions on major infrastructure investment	Planned to be completed in 2022/23
Public sector accountability to communities	Planned to be completed in 2022/23
Central government: Results of the 2020/21 audits	Observations from our central government audits: 2020/21	14/12/21
Auditor-General’s quarterly updates for chief executives and Audit and Risk Committee Chairs	Completed The quarter 4 update was published in July 2022	N/A
Results of the 2020 school audits	Results of the 2020 school audits	06/12/21
Results of the 2020 audits of tertiary education institutions	Tertiary education institutions: Main findings from our 2020 audits	15/12/21
Results of the 2020 audits of tertiary education institutions	Tertiary education institutions: What we saw in 2021	14/04/22
Results of the 2020/21 district health board audits	Completed Letter to the Chief Executive of Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand summarising the 2020/21 audits of District Health Boards	19/07/22
Local government: Results of the 2020/21 audits	Planned to be completed in 2022/23
Main matters arising from our audits of councils' 2021-31 long-term plan consultation documents	Consulting matters: Observations on the 2021-31 consultation documents	08/12/21
Main matters arising from our audits of councils' 2021-31 long-term plans	Matters arising from our audits of the 2021-31 long-term plans	27/07/22
Half-year Controller update	Controller update: July to December 2021	17/03/22
Auckland landscape scan	Planned to be completed in 2022/23
Auckland Council review of service performance (topic to be confirmed)	Planned to be completed in 2023/24
Auckland Council review of service performance – disaster resilience and preparedness	Planned to be completed in 2022/23
Helping to support the effectiveness of audit and risk committees	Completed We supported audit and risk committees by providing four central government forums, three local government forums, and one joint local government/central government forum	N/A
Support material for new audit and risk committee chairpersons	Completed We engaged more extensively with audit and risk committees during 2021/22, including 64 briefings to audit and risk committees with material outlining the Office’s key areas of interest and good practice guidance – for example, performance reporting. We intend to issue new audit and risk committee chairpersons with our updated audit and risk guidance material once it is finalised	N/A
Review of good practice guidance: Audit and risk committees	Planned to be completed in 2022/23
Review of good practice guidance: Public sector purchases, grants and gifts: Managing funding arrangements with external parties	Review has been deferred. A high-level review of the guidance found the principles were still relevant. Therefore, carrying out this work was no longer considered a priority	N/A
Review of good practice guidance: Charging fees for public sector goods and services	Setting and administering fees and levies for cost recovery: Good practice guide	26/08/21
Sharing good practice: Performance reporting	Good practice in reporting about performance	26/04/22
Sharing good practice speaker series	Completed We hosted three good practice speaker events	N/A
Understanding performance and supporting the role of monitoring agencies	Improving value through better Crown entity monitoring	29/06/22