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Provision Reference: sch 1 (pt 7/9)
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report of progress against the National Strategy and an Innovation Strategy. The Innovation Strategy will include the State/Territory's assessment of industry requirements, within the overall context of national skill requirements, and will show, for example, identified shifts in training effort to support emerging industries, uptake of Training Packages in Information Technology and other new technologies and development of new VET‑industry links in cutting‑edge industry areas. Each Annual VET Plan will also include an activity table which shows the distribution of total VET activity to be achieved annually, by industry and level of training, and the number of New Apprenticeships commencements and New Apprentices in‑training. The Annual VET Plan will include an agreed use of Australian Vocational Education and Training Management Information and Statistical Standards (AVETMISS).

26. State/Territory Annual VET Plans will be considered and agreed by MINCO, acting with the advice of the ANTA Board, in accordance with the requirements in paragraph 33.

Annual National Report
27. The Annual National Report will provide the basis for reporting against the National Strategy and national priorities, including against the agreed key performance measures. It will also include a report for each State/Territory on:

    (a) relative efficiency (using the approach adopted for the Annual National Report for 2000 based on adjusted unit costs);
    (b) the effectiveness of the operation of the Australian Recognition Framework (using an approach agreed by MINCO but including at a minimum the nature and extent of auditing arrangements and audit outcomes at the whole‑State level); and
    (c) the implementation of Training Packages and the extent to which Registered Training Organisations are using Training Packages to respond to clients' needs at the local level.

28. The report will be the mechanism for reporting to the Commonwealth Parliament on the operation of the national VET system. To ensure its effectiveness as a national accountability mechanism, ANTA will have the capacity to arrange for independent verification of any information or data provided by States/Territories for inclusion in the report.

FUNDING
29. The Commonwealth and the States/Territories will continue to provide funding stability for the national VET system. To this end the Commonwealth will maintain current levels of funding in real terms for the duration of this Agreement. The States/Territories agree to maintain outputs or outcomes, to be measured on a basis agreed by the Ministerial Council, over the life of the Agreement and to strive for ongoing efficiency improvements. Each State/Territory will have the flexibility to use up to its share of $30 million of the total allocation for capital purposes (ie, the Infrastructure Programme) for recurrent purposes to achieve additional VET activity. The additional VET activity funded from this flexibility, commensurate with the funds reallocated to recurrent purposes, will be over