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Publications ~ Annual Report 2003

STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTABILITY

 

The Chief Executive of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet is accountable to the Prime Minister for the financial and human resources management of the Crown's investment in the department and for the production of the classes of outputs detailed in its Statement of Service Performance, with the following exceptions:

• The Secretary of the Cabinet is responsible directly to the Prime Minister for the impartial recording of Cabinet decisions and, as Clerk of the Executive Council, is responsible directly to the Governor-General and the Prime Minister respectively for servicing the Executive Council and providing advice as required from time to time on constitutional matters.
  
  
• The Director of the External Assessments Bureau is accountable to the Prime Minister for the class of outputs "Intelligence Assessments on Developments Overseas".
  
  

• The Hon. Pete Hodgson, Convenor of the Ministerial Group on Climate Change, is responsible for the Climate Change Project which was part of the department (until 31 January 2003).