Ministry for Culture and Heritage Annual Report 2007

Expenditure administered by the Ministry

The table below shows the Vote structure in terms of appropriation types for 2006/07:

Departmental Output Expenses	15,321	5%
Non-departmental Output Expenses	267,090	85%
Non-departmental Other Expenses	12,075	4%
Non-departmental Benefits and Other Unrequited Expenses	4,250	1%
Capital Expenditure	16,350	5%
Total	315,086	100%

The table below shows the proportion of funding from each non-departmental output to the total non-departmental output expenses:

Management of Historic Places	10,409	4%
Museum Services	21,263	8%
Performing Arts Services	18,284	7%
Promotion and Support of Arts and Film	25,563	10%
Public Broadcasting Funding	136,364	50%
Children and Young People’s Lifestyles	3,788	1%
Drugs Testing of Sports Persons	1,623	1%
Sport and Recreation Programmes	49,796	19%
TOTAL	267,090	100%

Vote Arts, Culture and Heritage

In 2006/07 the Ministry incurred expenses of $15.321 million (GST exclusive) in the provision of services under the departmental outputs 1 Heritage Services, International Cultural Diplomacy, and Policy Advice and Grants Administration.

The Ministry also incurred the following expenditure against non-departmental appropriations administered on behalf of the Crown:

Five outputs totalling $211.883 million for services supplied, mainly by arts, heritage and broadcasting Crown entities, comprising: ballet, orchestral, museum, public broadcasting, film archive and Māori performing arts activities, protection for historic places, and the promotion and support of New Zealand films and the arts.
Seven other expenses appropriations totalling $12.031 million, being:
$2.330 million for New Zealand’s annual contribution to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
$516,000 on the development and maintenance of war graves, historic graves and monuments in New Zealand and overseas.
$48,000 on Gallipoli memorial projects.
$1.037 million contribution to costs of design, land purchase and construction of the Kerikeri Heritage Bypass to protect nationally significant buildings (Kemp House and the Stone Store).
$1.323 million towards the cost of constructing a New Zealand Memorial in London.
$6.489 million in grants to regional museums for capital construction projects.
$288,000 towards the cost of Treaty commemorations held at Waitangi and communities elsewhere in New Zealand.
$15.500 million capital contribution to Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa for ongoing capital expenditure for museum operations, exhibition research and development, and acquisition of collection items.
$850,000 to New Zealand Historic Places Trust for an upgrade of information technology systems and regional office vehicles, and urgent deferred maintenance of historic properties.

The Ministry was responsible for making payments for the services supplied under non-departmental appropriations, for ensuring that these appropriations were not exceeded, and for managing and monitoring on behalf of Ministers the Crown’s interests in these organisations.

1. Outputs are defined as goods or services supplied by departments and other entities to external parties. Outputs have a variety of types, including policy advice, the administration of grants, and the provision of specific services.

Vote Sport and Recreation

In 2006/07 the Ministry incurred expenses of $98,000 (GST exclusive) in the provision of services under the departmental output Purchase Advice and Monitoring of Sport and Recreation Crown Entities.

The Ministry also administered the following non-departmental appropriations:

three outputs totalling $55.207 million for services supplied by Drug Free Sport New Zealand and Sport and Recreation New Zealand (SPARC).
$4.250 million to Sport Education Scholarships to enable emerging and talented New Zealanders to pursue tertiary study and elite-level sport development concurrently.
23 miscellaneous grants totalling $44,222 to support sports-related initiatives, including participation in sport and recreation activities for groups, individuals and organisations that are unable to obtain support through organisations such as SPARC, local government and the New Zealand Lottery Grants Board.