3.2 Cabinet Budget Review Committee
The CBRC is a core Standing Committee that has a primary role of considering
matters with financial or budgetary implications for the government. Initiatives
or proposals that cannot be funded from existing appropriations must be directed
to CBRC in the first instance for consideration. At the direction of the Premier
or Cabinet, CBRC may also consider other issues that require dedicated or
longer-term scrutiny or otherwise might best be considered in the Committee
environment. Refer to Section 3.1.1 for CBRC
membership.
Generally stakeholder Minister(s) will be invited to meetings to provide
input into deliberations on submissions. CBRC may decide that following its
deliberations on a matter, it should be referred to Cabinet for consideration of
wider policy components by the full Ministry.
3.2.1 Financial information to be agreed by the Treasury Department
Given the pre-eminent role of CBRC in considering financial matters at whole
of government level, it is essential that financial information supporting the
Committee's deliberations is comprehensive and reliable. The provision of
unreliable or incomplete financial information will significantly impact on
CBRC's ability to make appropriate and informed decisions on proposals.
Consequently it is essential that the Treasury Department's expertise is
sought on financial information within submissions to give CBRC a high degree of
confidence in the primary information underlying its decisions.
In drafting CBRC submissions involving financial considerations, originating
agencies must consult closely with the Treasury Department and agree on costing
information in the submission. Where the submission arises or follows on from
earlier CBRC consideration, and costing information has been amended since the
original submission, it must also be agreed with the Treasury Department and a
comprehensive explanation on the changes given within the submission.
CBRC will not consider the proposal if the prior agreement of the Treasury
Department to financial information has not been received and reflected in a
proposed submission.
3.2.2 Matters to be considered by the Cabinet Budget Review Committee
Matters that would typically be considered by CBRC include:
- matters that would have a significant budgetary impact;
- cyclical whole of government budget deliberative processes including those involving operational budget
determination and mid year budget reviews;
- governmental or departmental negotiating positions and outcomes on significant industrial relations issues. Refer to Chapter 3.2.4 "Consideration of public sector enterprise bargaining matters";
- proposals that would require funding supplementation beyond that of the normal approved budget allocation to the originating portfolio;
- approval of all major, sensitive, controversial, major impact, and/or television or equivalent advertising campaigns, for Queensland Government agencies. This includes in-flight videos, inserts and publications into
state-wide or interstate publications. Refer to Chapter 3.2.3 "Consideration of major communication campaigns" for further information on this matter;
- key intergovernmental agreements with financial implications for Queensland; and
- all proposals for Public Private Partnerships with an expected capital value in excess of $30 M or a whole of life present value of $50 M. Refer to the Regions website (external site) for more information.
Should there be doubt as to whether a matter should be considered by CBRC,
advice should be sought from the relevant Policy Division contact officer or the
Cabinet Secretary.
3.2.3 Consideration of major communication campaigns
CBRC is responsible for ensuring communication campaigns undertaken by
departments are professionally conceived and executed, meet whole of government
standards, take into account community expectations, and represent value for
money.
Departments are required to submit proposals to the Advertising Review
Committee (ARC) for major communication campaigns before they are progressed as
a submission to Cabinet Budget Review Committee (CBRC) for consideration.
Under the ARC process, departments are required to lodge an ARC proposal
(signed by the department's CEO) with Contracts and Advertising Management,
Department of the Premier and Cabinet (the ARC Secretariat).
If ARC approves the proposal, the ARC Secretariat will ask the department to
seek Ministerial sign-off. Once approved by the Minister, the Secretariat will
lodge the proposal to CBRC on the department's behalf, via a CBRC submission
signed by the Premier and the responsible Minister.
CBRC considers a number of elements of a proposed communication campaign from
a whole of government perspective to ensure that each campaign:
- follows the Queensland Government's Advertising Guidelines;
- meets the requirements of the advertising Code of Conduct (Advertising Guidelines on page 15 (also available on the GovNet website at http://premiers.govnet.qld.gov.au/policies/index.html);
- reflects relevant policy initiatives;
- undertakes whole of government consultation (where applicable);
- is professionally conceived, executed and justified;
- represents value for money;
- reflects market research on community attitudes and behaviours; and
- has a separate submission and headings are addressed in order.
Government Owned Corporations are exempted from ARC consideration. However
CBRC may, at its discretion, require reports if it considers campaigns may be
developed that could impact on the State Government.
Further information on ARC and CBRC requirements for communication
campaigns is available on the Department of the Premier and Cabinet GovNet
website at http://premiers.govnet.qld.gov.au/policies/index.html or
can be obtained from Contracts and Advertising Management, Department of the
Premier and Cabinet (email arc@premiers.qld.gov.au).
3.2.4 Consideration of public sector enterprise bargaining matters
CBRC is responsible for considering public sector enterprise bargaining
negotiating positions and outcomes. The Department of Justice and
Attorney-General, Division of Public Sector Industrial and Employee Relations
centrally manages these negotiations through its Central Bargaining Unit.
Given the responsibility the Industrial Relations portfolio has for
overseeing and coordinating public sector enterprise bargaining processes
(including the implementation of the requirements of the good faith protocol)
the Minister for Industrial Relations shall be joint signatory on all CBRC
submissions directly relating to these matters.
Last reviewed: 17 July, 2009
Last updated: 22 July, 2009
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