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About DPMC

Publications ~ Annual Report 2008

Outcomes

Good Government with Effective Public Service Support

The department seeks to achieve this high-level outcome in collaboration with many other parts of the government system, including ministers, the public service, and the wider state sector. Along with Treasury and the State Services Commission (SSC), DPMC is responsible for providing the leadership that enables the public service to carry out the business of government efficiently, effectively and collectively.

DPMC's particular responsibility is to bring together the people, agencies and information needed for the operation of Cabinet's collective decision making. DPMC works at the point where separate ministers, agencies and advice streams come together at the Cabinet table.

The government's key strategic priority for the next decade is for New Zealand to become truly sustainable through its work programme of:

  • economic transformation
  • families – young and old
  • national identity.

DPMC will support the Prime Minister in carrying forward this strategic agenda by working with Treasury, SSC and other key departments so that the government's priorities are delivered.

DPMC also has an overall outcome that it works to achieve: good government, with effective public service support.

DPMC works towards its overall outcome through five contributing outcomes:

  1. Decision making by the Prime Minister and Cabinet is well informed and supported.
  2. Executive government is well conducted and continues in accordance with accepted conventions and practices.
  3. The Governor-General is well supported.
  4. The management of domestic and external security is well planned, informed and coordinated.
  5. A high-performing, trusted and accessible state sector, delivering the right things, in the right way, at the right prices.

How we go about achieving our outcomes

DPMC works closely with Treasury, SSC, ministers' offices, and other public service agencies as necessary.

The five contributing outcomes overlap, with some DPMC business units contributing to several different outcomes. The overall outcome remains the same: that the Prime Minister and the Governor-General are well supported and that the decision-making machinery of government functions effectively to support ministers across the whole range of government business.

Output 1

Policy advice and secretariat and coordination services (includes Contributing Outcomes 1, 2, 4 and 5)

Output 2

Support services to the Governor-General and maintenance of the two Government Houses (includes Contributing Outcome 3)

Output 3

Intelligence assessments on developments overseas (includes Contributing Outcomes 1 and 4)

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