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Annual Report 2002–03 You are currently viewing: Annual
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Role and functionsThe Department of the House of Representatives was established under the Parliamentary Service Act 1999 and is one of five parliamentary departments supporting the Australian Parliament. The other four parliamentary departments – the Department of the Senate, the Department of the Parliamentary Reporting Staff, the Department of the Parliamentary Library and the Joint House Department – report separately to Parliament. The department's purpose, as set out in its corporate plan, is to support the House of Representatives and the Parliament by providing advice and services of the highest possible standard. In 2002–03 the department provided services to support the work of the House of Representatives and its committees and a number of joint committees. The department provided a range of services for members, principally in Parliament House. The department also was responsible for the Parliament's international and regional relations and for activities to promote the work of the House in the community. The department worked in partnership with the Department of the Senate and other parliamentary departments, the Office of the Official Secretary to the Governor-General and executive agencies to ensure that the outcomes of parliamentary proceedings were processed and recorded accurately and on time. Organisational structureIn financial year 2002–03, the departmental structure comprised nine offices managed by the Senior Executive – that is, the Clerk of the House, the Deputy Clerk, two Clerks Assistant and the Serjeant-at-Arms (the two Clerks Assistant and the Serjeant-at-Arms are Senior Executive Service Band 1 staff). In April 2003, management responsibility for the Security Controller's Office was transferred from the department (under the Serjeant-at-Arms) to the Joint House Department, prior to the formal transfer of security operations as a whole to the Joint House Department. The organisational structure at 30 June 2003 is shown in Figure 1. Figure 1 Organisational structure (30 June 2003) Outcome and output structureThe department contributes to a single outcome:
The outcome and output structure and reporting framework for 2002–03 remained consistent with that described in the department's 2002–03 Portfolio Budget Statements. The department's outcome and output structure is shown in Figure 2 and the relationship between the output structure and the organisational structure is shown in Figure 3. During 2002–03 a working group on performance information, chaired by the Serjeant-at-Arms, reviewed the outcome and output structure and the performance information in the Portfolio Budget Statements. As a result, the structures of the output groups were revised slightly to better reflect the department's activities and enable more precise reporting, and the ways in which performance would be measured against each indicator were identified. The department will report against the revised Portfolio Budget Statements at the end of 2003–04. Figure 2 Outcome and outputs structure (30 June 2003) Figure 3 Relationship between output structure and organisational structure (30 June 2003)
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