Major projects 2023

Tabled Report 7: 2023–24

Tabled date

2023-12-14

Report year

2023-24

Infrastructure Local government Transport Whole of government

Entities audited

Not identified in the published HTML audit scope.

Recommendations

1. QAO's text Addressed to: Queensland Treasury

   We recommend that Queensland Treasury:

   • updates the relevant guidelines to require more information to be included in project summaries of public–private partnership projects. These should include service payments, contributions from private sector companies, and details of the analysis of value for money
   • develops a project summary template for public–private partnerships to enable greater consistency and more conformity with relevant guidelines
   • updates the relevant guidelines to specify a time frame for publishing project summary reports.

2. QAO's text Addressed to: Queensland Treasury

   We recommend that Queensland Treasury:

   • updates relevant guidelines to require agencies to be consistent when naming and presenting projects that continue over different financial years, or explain name changes and whether they signify a change in the scope of a project
   • updates relevant guidelines to require agencies to include an estimated project completion date in the capital statement
   • annually publishes a report of projects completed during the preceding financial year, in conjunction with the capital statement. This should include the project completion date and the total actual expenditure at the completion of the project.

Authoritative report — Queensland Audit Office

Report PDF on QAO