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  • Annex B
  • Annex C
  • Annex D
  • Annex E
  • Annex F
  • Annex G
  • Annex H
  • Annex I
  • Annex J
  • Annex K
  • Annex L
  • Annex M

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Hunn Review: Annexes (30 September 2002)

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Annex B

Review Terms of Reference

Background

The Government's Defence Policy Framework released in June 2000 foreshadowed a "review of accountabilities and structural arrangements between the Ministry of Defence and the New Zealand Defence Force"

Focus of the Review

The Minister of Defence has established an independent, external review of the current accountabilities and structural arrangements of Defence. This review should include, but will not be limited to:

• Consideration of the role and responsibilities of the Minister of Defence and how the accountabilities and structural arrangements between the Ministry of Defence and the New Zealand Defence Force support and inform those responsibilities;
• The relationships, responsibilities and accountabilities of and between the Secretary of Defence and the Chief of Defence Force and the appropriateness of those arrangements to the statutory and other responsibilities of the New Zealand Government, Parliament and the Governor-General;
• The relationships, responsibilities and accountabilities of and between the Ministry of Defence, the New Zealand Defence Force and the single Services (Royal New Zealand Navy, New Zealand Army, and Royal New Zealand Air Force), including the Chiefs of Staff of the Services and the Joint Force Commander New Zealand;
• The effectiveness of the structural arrangements and accountabilities put in place as a result of the Strategos Report, and implemented in the Defence Act 1990;
• The new organisational arrangements at the Headquarters, Joint Forces, and the Headquarters, New Zealand Defence Force;
• Options for better structural arrangements and accountabilities to improve co-ordination of policy and operational inputs into defence and security policy and operations;
• Options for enabling policy advice from a variety of sources to ensure high quality, professional, timely, fully-tested and informed defence and security policy advice to the Government;
• Options for structural arrangements and accountabilities that enable appropriate Parliamentary Select Committee participation in defence planning and capital acquisition advice and decision-making; and
• Options for structural arrangements and accountabilities that enable co- operation rather than competition between components of the New Zealand Defence Force.

The Review will take into account:

• The Government's Defence Policy Framework
• The findings of the Controller and Auditor General's report into the
  Acquisition of Light Armoured Vehicles and Light Operational Vehicles;
• The report of the Parliamentary Select Committee's Inquiry "Defence Beyond 2000"
• relevant experience and lessons learned from the structural arrangements and accountabilities of higher defence organisations in New Zealand's key strategic partners;
• the results of the inquiry by the Judge Advocate General into an alleged inappropriate letter and e-mail and the review by the State Services Commissioner into NZDF standards of behaviour.

Outcomes

The Minister of Defence expects the review to make recommendations on improvements to the accountabilities and structural arrangements between the Ministry of Defence and the New Zealand Defence Force that will help him achieve the following outcomes:

• Defence policy and operational advice that meets New Zealand's national security requirements, interests and obligations;
• Defence policy advice that is well-informed, meets State Sector standards and combines the expertise of military personnel with that of civilian advisers to serve the collective interest of the Government;
• Effective and efficient performance direction, planning and management of Defence assets, resources, outputs and outcomes;
• Transparent and robust defence planning and capital acquisition processes, including the setting of capital acquisition priorities, tendering and decision-making and advice to Ministers; and
• A New Zealand Defence Force and Ministry of Defence that is committed to Jointness at inter-agency and all levels of the Defence organisation.

Signature

Hon Mark Burton
Minister of Defence

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