NZDF

Output Specifications: Vote Veterans’ Affairs - Defence

Vote Veterans' Affairs - Defence has a total budget of $10.804 million:

  • $7.531 million in departmental appropriations to purchase services from Veterans’ Affairs New Zealand.
  • $3.273 million in non-departmental appropriations.

A summary of the way the appropriations are spent is detailed in the following table:

Summary of Appropriations Spent
Outputs Purchased
Departmental Output Expenses Cost ($ million)
Policy and Administration 4.901
Services to Veterans 2.630
Total Departmental Output Expenses 7.531
Non - Departmental Output Expenses
Development and Maintenance of Services Cemeteries 0.746
Support for Veterans and Their Families 1.027
Ex-Gratia Payment (see “Other Expenses” below) 1.500
Total Non-Departmental Output Expenses 3.273

Other Expenses to be Incurred by the Crown

As indicated in the table above, appropriations for Veterans’ Affairs - Defence include an Ex-Gratia Payment of $1.500 million being provision for payments to: veterans and/or members of their families with accepted conditions; veterans for one-off medical assessments; the Ex Vietnam Services Association (Neville Wallace Memorial) Youth Development Trust and the Vietnam Veterans’ and their Families Trust.

This page was last reviewed on 23 January 2008, and is current.