Dear S Curtis,

Thank you for your email. It has been forwarded to the Assistant Auditor-General, Legal for her consideration and reply.

Yours faithfully

Yashodha Jayawardhana
Reports & Communications Group

Office of the Auditor-General Te Mana Arotake and Audit New Zealand Mana Arotake Aotearoa
Level 2, 100 Molesworth St, Thorndon, Wellington 6011
PO Box 3928, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
www.oag.govt.nz and www.auditnz.govt.nz

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From: dukeofurl [mailto:[FOI #6033 email]]
Sent: Wednesday, 21 June 2017 4:49 p.m.
To: enquiry <[Office of the Controller and Auditor-General request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Audits of Parliamentary political parties leaders funds

Dear Office of the Controller and Auditor-General,

Each NZ political party represented in Parliament receives various amounts per year loosely called "Leaders Fund" which is made up from allocations for a number of items, including that which is paid per MP but normally under spending control of the party leader.

For each of the last 3 years since the election in 2014 has the funds under the control of party leaders been audited fully or partly by the Auditor General ?
If so, for each party what was the outcome of each audit and will it be made public ?

Yours faithfully,
S Curtis

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Dear S Curtis

 

Thank you for your emails on 21 June and 28 July 2017, seeking information
about the audits of funds under the control of the leaders of political
parties. Please accept my apologies for our delay in responding.

 

The funds available to the leaders of political parties are administered
by Parliamentary Service and we audit the general purpose financial
statements and performance information contained in the annual report of
the Parliamentary Service every year. The outcome of our work is publicly
available in the Independent Auditor’s Report which is published in the
Parliamentary Service’s annual report in each of the relevant years. I
have attached a copy of Parliamentary Service’s annual report for the year
ended 30 June 2016 as an example:
 [1]https://www.parliament.nz/media/1485/ann...
. It includes on pages 46-48 a copy of the Auditor’s Report. The Auditor’s
Report specifies the scope of our audit work and clearly identifies the
information that has been audited by page number. Information on the
funding provided for leaders and members is included in the schedules and
statements of non-departmental activities, which are managed by the
Service on behalf of the Crown, is on pages 86 to 103 in the attached
annual report).

 

For future reference, I thought it may be useful to note that the
Auditor-General, and the Office of the Auditor-General, are not subject to
the Official Information Act 1982.  We make public the findings of our
audit work, in the case of annual audits through the publication of the
Independent Audit Report in an organisation’s annual report.

 

Yours faithfully

 

Maria

 

 

Maria Rawiri

Sector Manager | Parliamentary Group

Office of the Auditor-General | Te Mana Arotake
100 Molesworth Street | Thorndon | Wellington 6011
PO Box 3928 | Wellington 6140
Phone: +64 4 917 1500

[2]www.oag.govt.nz

 

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