Documents relating to roles classified as core work under the Strategic Commissioning Framework in 2024-25 and 2025-26

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This FOI release concerns the ABS's reporting under the APS Strategic Commissioning Framework for 2024-25 and 2025-26. It includes a June 2024 executive brief from the Legislative Compliance and Parliamentary Branch to the Acting Australian Statistician, seeking approval of an agency target for the 2024-25 Corporate Plan. The brief states that ABS core work is defined by the Australian Bureau of Statistics Act 1975 and APS core work, and that contractors are generally used only for corporate functions such as ICT because the Census and Statistics Act 1905 requires statistical activities to be performed by ABS officers. As at 31 March 2024, one contractor worked on core work, providing methodology services for 18 days per annum. Also included are the completed reporting workbook (dated 2 July 2024), framework guidance, and staffing tables of employees by job family and role as at May 2024 for the Insights and Statistics Group and Procurement section. Most figures and reduction amounts are blank in the excerpt.