Draft annual plan 2025/26
23 April 2025: Our draft annual plan outlines our proposed programme of work for 2025/26, which includes performance audits, special studies, regular reports and updates, and good practice guidance. It considers issues facing the public sector and how we can best use our role to influence positive change.
Reporting on what went well and what didn’t
17 April 2025: Current performance information often highlights successes, achievements, and what went well, but usually gives less attention to things that did not go as well or as planned.
How public organisations are fulfilling Treaty settlements
10 April 2025: We wanted to provide assurance about whether public organisations were well positioned to meet their legal and contractual commitments to fulfil Treaty settlements as intended. We also wanted to provide assurance about how well they understood any risks associated with meeting their commitments.
Controller update: July to December 2024
7 April 2025: The one instance of unappropriated expenditure in the first six months of 2024/25 relates to a $3.2 billion increase in the Crown liability for veterans’ support. Also, having seen some problems with statements setting the scope for government spending, we will carry out a comprehensive review during 2025.
Effectiveness of arrangements for reducing child poverty
3 April 2025: We wanted to know how effective government arrangements to reduce child poverty are. We looked at what the government is doing to reduce child poverty and mitigate the impacts of socio-economic disadvantage.
Mind the gap: Governing cyber security risks
1 April 2025: We recently looked at selected public organisations to see how well they were governing their cyber security risks. We found that although governors are taking cyber security seriously, they have more work to do to support their organisations to reduce the gap between the amount of cyber security risk they are comfortable with and the amount of risk they currently face.
Submission on the Local Government (Water Services) Bill
13 March 2025: We provided a submission to the Finance and Expenditure Committee on the Local Government (Water Services) Bill.
Regulating vehicle safety inspections
4 March 2025: We looked at NZTA’s processes for appointing and monitoring vehicle inspectors and inspecting organisations, how it responds to non-compliance, and how it measures and reports on the performance of these activities.
Observations from our audits of councils’ 2024-34 long-term plans
20 February 2025: This report describes the audit results and trends from the 58 long-term plans that councils adopted between June and October 2024.
Our insights into five health regulatory authorities
19 February 2025: There are 18 authorities in New Zealand that regulate a workforce of nearly 140,000 registered health practitioners. In this report we highlight the role of responsible authorities and their contribution to the wider health sector.
