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Appendix 4—Entity Resource Statement
Entity Resource Statement 2015–16
Ordinary Annual Services1
Actual available
appropriation for
2015-16 $’000 (a)
Payments made
2015-16 $’000 (b)
Balance 2015-16
$’000 (a) – (b)
Departmental appropriation 2 35,111 25,439 9,672
Adjustment—actual s74 3 335 335 –
Adjustment—s51 determination 4 (10) (10)
Adjustment Departmental
(77) (77)
Appropriation 5
Total resourcing and payments 35,359 25,775 9,585
PART 6—APPENDICES
1 Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2015–16 and Appropriation Act (No. 3) 2015–16. This also includes prior year departmental
appropriation and S74 relevant agency receipts.
2 Includes an available amount of $1.181m in 2015–16 for the Departmental Capital Budget. For accounting purposes this
amount has been designated as ‘contribution by owners’.
3 Actual s74 receipts in 2015–16 were $2.607m compared to the Budget estimate of $2.272m.
4 $0.010m was quarantined for Superannuation fees but not yet removed from the appropriation.
5 Adjustment to departmental appropriation for the inclusion of the PHIO restructure.
Resources Summary Table – Expenses for Outcome 1
Outcome 1: Fair and accountable administrative action by Australian Government entities and
prescribed private sector organisations, by investigating complaints, reviewing administrative action
and statutory compliance inspections and reporting.
Program 1.1: Office of the
Commonwealth Ombudsman
Budget 2015–16
$’000
Actual 2015–16
$’000
Variance 2015–16
$’000
Departmental expenses
Departmental appropriation 1 23,212 23,471 (259)
Expenses not requiring
appropriation in the Budget year
833 894 (61)
Total for Program 1.1 24,045 24,365 (320)
Total for Outcome 1 24,045 24,365 (320)
Average Staffing Level (number) 149 152 (3)
1 Departmental Appropriation combines ‘Ordinary annual services’ (Appropriation Act No. 1 and Appropriation Act No. 3)
and ‘Revenue from independent sources (S74)’.
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