Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements

Purpose

The Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements (PAES) inform parliamentarians and the public of changes to the proposed allocation of resources since the Budget.

They provide information on new measures and their impact on the financial and/or non‑financial planned performance of programmes supporting those outcomes.

The PAES, annual Appropriation Bills (Nos. 3 and 4) and Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 2) require that the Portfolio Budget Statements be taken into account when interpreting the appropriated items in the Schedules.

Not all entities prepare a PAES. Only those entities for whom the government has agreed to change funding through the Appropriation Bills listed above.