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TPG24-29 NSW Government Business Case Guidelines

These guidelines bring together best practice, expert advice, insights from other jurisdictions and a practical approach to guide business case development. They establish when a business case is mandatory and what it should contain, scaled according to proposal cost and risk.

TPG24-26 First Nations Impact Assessment Policy

TPG24-35 Budget Control Framework

This Treasury Policy and Guidelines (“TPG”) outlines the NSW Government budget control framework, including detail on how the controls apply to agency budgets, delegations for approving adjustments, and reporting arrangements.

This TPG supersedes the following Treasury Circulars:

• NSW TC12/08 – Budget Controls – Net Cost of Services
• NSW TC13/03 – Budget Controls – Labour Expense Cap
• NSW TC12/20 – Budget Controls – Capital Expenditure Authorisation Limits.

TPG24-33 Reporting framework for first year climate-related financial disclosures

This reporting framework sets out the minimum content requirements for the first year of mandatory climate-related financial disclosures for an entity. It also provides suggestions on how entities should approach their disclosures.

TPG24-28 First Nations Investment Framework

The First Nations Investment Framework is a guide to good practice in working with First Nations people and communities on the design, appraisal and evaluation of initiatives.

Evaluation of the NSW COVID-19 Voucher Programs

This report evaluates the NSW Government’s COVID-19 Stimulus Vouchers (the ‘voucher programs’).

The COVID-19 pandemic was an unprecedented public health crisis which affected all aspects of society and the economy. The federal and state/territory governments reacted quickly with a raft of interventions. The NSW Government’s voucher programs were a novel solution, implemented at scale and pace alongside other response programs. 

The purpose of the evaluation is to:

• assess whether the voucher programs were warranted
• examine the process of implementing the programs
• assess the extent to which the programs achieved their intended outcomes
• understand any unintended consequences
• capture any insights and lessons learned.

Operational expenditure review: Insurance and Care NSW (icare)

In November 2023, the Minister for Work Health and Safety (the minister) instructed NSW Treasury to conduct an operational expenditure review of icare.

NSW Treasury has conducted a high-level review of the efficiency, effectiveness and appropriateness of icare’s operational expenditure. The review focuses on icare’s net cost of services (NCOS) – those controllable business costs incurred by icare to deliver its different insurance and care schemes on behalf of the community and government. icare’s underlying commercial model and overall net expenses (including claims handling expenses incurred by its insurance and care schemes) were beyond the scope of this review.

TRP 24-25 Examining the macroeconomic costs of occupational entry regulations

This paper quantifies the stringency of occupational entry regulations (OER) across a sample of occupations in New South Wales, Queensland, and Victoria. It then assesses the impact of OER stringency on measures of economic dynamism to help understand their economic costs.

TPG24-27 Performance Reporting and Monitoring Policy for Government Businesses

This Policy identifies government businesses as a type of entity that require a separate and distinct reporting and accountability approach from that which applies to other NSW Government entities.

TPG24-24 Recurrent Expenditure Assurance Framework

The Recurrent Expenditure Assurance Framework (REAF) outlines the procedures for the application of the NSW Gateway Policy to major recurrent expenditure investments. This Framework sets out the requirements that must be followed by the Delivery Agency, the Major Recurrent Advisory Group (MRAG), the Expert Review Team, and NSW Treasury (as the Gateway Coordination Agency for this Framework).