Yet again we have had this annual circus and yet again the focus is on
spending plans. The results of each budget are rarely reported.

Yesterdays budget followed the same basic processes as previous
budgets from both Labour and National. Spending plans are outlined
and the goals of such spending are never in sufficient detail to allow
future comparisons between what was funded and what was subsequently
delivered. Effectively I am advocating large scale Key Performance
Indicators (KPIs) to be included in every budget and reported by those government departments.

How about on the Wednesday prior to budget day, performance against
KPI measures in the previous budget are reported? How about every
budget including the KPIs that will be expected from the funding and
reported on nearly a year later?

There will always be genuine reasons why KPIs are either modified
during the year or simply not met, principally because of natural
disasters or anything else that could never have been predicted but
must be responded to. This should not be allowed as a reason not to
adopt KPIs.

It would seem to me that this could be achieved as an amendment to the
Fiscal Responsibility Act 1994.


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Crash <nogood@dontbother.invalid> wrote:

Yet again we have had this annual circus and yet again the focus is on >spending plans. The results of each budget are rarely reported.

Yesterdays budget followed the same basic processes as previous
budgets from both Labour and National. Spending plans are outlined
and the goals of such spending are never in sufficient detail to allow
future comparisons between what was funded and what was subsequently >delivered. Effectively I am advocating large scale Key Performance >Indicators (KPIs) to be included in every budget and reported by those >government departments.

How about on the Wednesday prior to budget day, performance against
KPI measures in the previous budget are reported? How about every
budget including the KPIs that will be expected from the funding and
reported on nearly a year later?

There will always be genuine reasons why KPIs are either modified
during the year or simply not met, principally because of natural
disasters or anything else that could never have been predicted but
must be responded to. This should not be allowed as a reason not to
adopt KPIs.

It would seem to me that this could be achieved as an amendment to the
Fiscal Responsibility Act 1994.

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Crash McBash

What an excellent idea.
I doubt if we will ever have a government who has the integrity to put measurements of their own performance in place.
But I would love to be wrong about that. Maybe it could be the founding principle of a new political party. The old Social Credit party base theories included some measurements but they never really got traction.

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On Friday, May 19, 2023 at 12:02:26 PM UTC+12, Crash wrote:

Yet again we have had this annual circus and yet again the focus is on spending plans. The results of each budget are rarely reported.

Yesterdays budget followed the same basic processes as previous
budgets from both Labour and National. Spending plans are outlined
and the goals of such spending are never in sufficient detail to allow future comparisons between what was funded and what was subsequently delivered. Effectively I am advocating large scale Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to be included in every budget and reported by those government departments.

How about on the Wednesday prior to budget day, performance against
KPI measures in the previous budget are reported? How about every
budget including the KPIs that will be expected from the funding and reported on nearly a year later?

There will always be genuine reasons why KPIs are either modified
during the year or simply not met, principally because of natural
disasters or anything else that could never have been predicted but
must be responded to. This should not be allowed as a reason not to
adopt KPIs.

It would seem to me that this could be achieved as an amendment to the Fiscal Responsibility Act 1994.

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Crash McBash

Good ideas Crash. Everybody needs targets and governments more than anyone. It'd be good to have a real measure of a governments performance...

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On Fri, 19 May 2023 00:22:10 -0000 (UTC), Tony
<lizandtony@orcon.net.nz> wrote:

Crash <nogood@dontbother.invalid> wrote:

Yet again we have had this annual circus and yet again the focus is on >>spending plans. The results of each budget are rarely reported.

Yesterdays budget followed the same basic processes as previous
budgets from both Labour and National. Spending plans are outlined
and the goals of such spending are never in sufficient detail to allow >>future comparisons between what was funded and what was subsequently >>delivered. Effectively I am advocating large scale Key Performance >>Indicators (KPIs) to be included in every budget and reported by those >>government departments.

How about on the Wednesday prior to budget day, performance against
KPI measures in the previous budget are reported? How about every
budget including the KPIs that will be expected from the funding and >>reported on nearly a year later?

There will always be genuine reasons why KPIs are either modified
during the year or simply not met, principally because of natural
disasters or anything else that could never have been predicted but
must be responded to. This should not be allowed as a reason not to
adopt KPIs.

It would seem to me that this could be achieved as an amendment to the >>Fiscal Responsibility Act 1994.


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Crash McBash

What an excellent idea.
I doubt if we will ever have a government who has the integrity to put >measurements of their own performance in place.
But I would love to be wrong about that. Maybe it could be the founding >principle of a new political party. The old Social Credit party base theories >included some measurements but they never really got traction.

Once a political party gets it into their head that they can publish
KPIs that are lower than Treasury (or anyone else's) predictions but
entirely politically acceptable on Budget day, then I would expect
them to go for it so they can crow about exceeding the KPIs (at near
the levels predicted), when the next 'KPI-Wednesday' comes.

We don't have a good track record of new political parties progressing
to government in the last century so it has to be Labour or National
that does this.


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