METHOD & SOURCE REGISTER

Evidence before decisions

What is covered

Five Ministry of Finance federal expenditure books, original estimates for 2023–2027. 2023 uses the operative February 2023 edition. 2027 is tabled expenditure, not actual spending. Business View and the spending mindmap use 2027 only; historical selections appear only in Comparison.

What was checked

The supplied workbook was imported without changing it. All five downloaded official PDFs match its recorded SHA-256 hashes. Federal operating, development and total controls were checked against their cited PDF pages. Vote totals, programme/activity parents, development direct plus loans and cached reconciliation checks were validated. This does not constitute individual human review of every workbook row.

Interpretation and scope

Industry matching routes a business to relevant ministry groups, with optional activity terms and explicit location filtering. This is an unreviewed routing interpretation, not an eligibility assessment. Operating expenditure includes salaries and administration; development allocations do not establish live tenders. Labels remain in their original language. Programme children must not be added to their parent. Multi-year project cost must not be added to the annual allocation.

Comparison uses original-year estimates, excluding reserve by default. Actuals and adjacent revised estimates are separate and are not mixed into this chart. Ministry responsibilities have changed; editorial groupings are as reported, not restated for equivalent scope. Missing observations remain missing and percentages with a zero base are unavailable.

Publication status

The user explicitly requested publication of the supplied expenditure workbook. This source-linked fact corpus is labelled as imported and reconciled; no human 27A analyst sign-off is asserted. The earlier analyst-pending 2025 announcement remains private and is excluded in public mode. Fixtures cannot be served in public mode. No paid provider, AI chat or visitor account is connected.