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Treasury Report: Investment Ministers Meeting, 8 December: Data and
Analytics Contingency
Date:
6 December 2016
Report No:
T2016/2408
File Number:
ST-4-7-4-1-1
Action Sought
Action Sought
Deadline
Minister of Finance
Read before Investment Ministers
8.30 am, 8 December
on Thursday, 8 December
(Hon Bill English)
Contact for Telephone Discussion (if required)
Name
Position
Telephone
1st Contact
Robert Barton
Senior Analyst, Fiscal and
s9(2)(k)
s9(2)(a)
State Sector Management
Fiona Whiteridge
Manager, Fiscal and State
Sector Management
Actions for the Minister’s Office Staff (if required)
Return the signed report to Treasury.
Note any
feedback on
the quality of
the report
Enclosure:
Yes
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Treasury Report: Investment Ministers Meeting, 8 December: Data
and Analytics Contingency
Executive Summary
A Data and Analytics funding package is to be considered by Investment Ministers at your
meeting on Thursday 8 December, at 8.30am. There are four agencies seeking funding
against the remaining $44.4 mil ion ($35.5 million operating and $8.9 mil ion capital) in the
tagged contingency from Budget 2016. The paper discusses several packages that could be
approved to fit the remaining funding.
Recommended Action
We recommend that you:
a.
support the recommendations to fund the Data and Analytics package outlined in the
table on page 3 of this report.
Agree/disagree.
b.
agree that the
remaining unallocated funding in the Data and Analytics Contingency
expires and future funding needs be sought in future budgets.
Agree/disagree.
Fiona Whiteridge
Manager
Hon Bill English
Minister of Finance
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Treasury Report: Investment Ministers Meeting, 8 December: Data
and Analytics Contingency
Treasury supports a package comprised of the fol owing funding bids to form the package as
set out below. This is followed with our comments on the individual bids, and advice that our
support for some of these proposals is conditional on satisfactory interim reports and other
requirements.
Tranche Two proposals against the
2016/17
2017/8
2018/19 2019/20
Total
Data and Analytics Contingency ($m)
Capital
IDI component of DatArcade
7
Operating
1.8
2.4
1.4
1.4
7
iED Tranche 0 + first year of
Capital
1.504
1.504
12.266
iED Tranche 1 projects
Operating
2.606
8.156
10.762
Centre of Excellence
Capital
3.7
component of DatArade
Operating
0.8
1.2
0.9
0.8
3.7
Capital
Open Data Programme
7.2
Operating
2
1.9
1.7
1.6
7.2
Delivering Information to the
Capital
0.595
0.975
0.38
1.95
-
6.109
Front Line
Operating
0.326
0.951
1.477
1.405
4.159
Capital
0.595
2.479
0.38
0
3.454
Total package
36.275
Operating
7.532
14.607
5.477
5.205
32.821
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Open Data Programme
Treasury sees value in further release of open data and recognises the commitment of the
Government to making more data available. s9(2)(g)(i)
s9(2)(g)(i)
The bid
correctly identifies the inherent weakness of the current approach which is a reliance on
administrative mechanisms such as Government statements of intent and monitoring
requirements. However, it is not clear how the proposed work program envisaged by the bid
would address these systemic problems. Statistics New Zealand’s bid for the establishment
of a centre of excellence for data may bring greater focus the open data agenda including
priorities and leadership in the data ecosystem.
s9(2)(g)(i)
s9(2)(g)(i)
. The central co-ordination role is important (as outlined in the ‘Intensive
support’ aspect of the bid) since agencies are only really incentivised on an individual level
and as such, central benefits may not be fully realised without this co-ordination. Treasury
notes that no further funding has been allocated for the continuation of the open data
program beyond the current financial year.
Treasury supports funding the initiative provided that during its first year of operation data
agencies explore opportunities to improve the operation of the program and report back to
Investment Ministers with recommendations on the continued operation of the program.
Continued operation of the program from 1 February 2018 will be contingent on approval
from Investment Ministers.
We
recommend that you support the recommendations relating to the Open Data
Programme.
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