To Part Advice to the Program Delegate and Funding Decisions

ANAO Report No.11 2014–15 The Award of Grants under the Clean Technology Program 124 Australian Government Grants: Briefing and Reporting released in May 2013. The mandatory data fields that must be populated by agencies when publishing grant details include grant recipient, value inclusive of GST, approval or commencement date, grant term, location and postcode.

6.4 ANAO

compared the information reported on the department’s website with information in submitted applications and executed funding agreements. This analysis confirmed that the grant information relating to ‘grant funding location’ and ‘postcode’ reported on the department’s website was accurate in most instances, except for:  five applications for which the head office address was reported; and  37 applications which involved projects at multiple locations.

6.5 In

this respect, Finance Circulars 200904 and 201302 both required the ‘grant funding location’ to describe the area where funding is to be used. For grants that are provided to multiple locations, details are required that best describe the area where funding is to be provided, such as Riverina, NSW or national.

6.6 As

was required by the CGGs, the department’s website reporting related to the signing of funding agreements rather than the award of individual grants. In this respect, the most common method of reporting used by the department was to report the date that the funding agreement was executed as the commencement date and the project end date in place of the grant term, as shown in Figure 6.1. Figure 6.1: Grant reporting Source: ANAO analysis of departmental records .

6.7 In

March 2013, the department was advised by Finance that, as long as the total duration for example, the start and end dates was provided in the website reporting of grants, the grant end date would suffice. However, in the department’s website reporting: