Thank you.
It is the case that reporting is very much part of the set of initiatives we have to deal with oversight in organizations. We agree with the Auditor General here that there is a balance, as I've said. There is a balance between good oversight and risk. Over time, I think, it is quite fair to conclude that for these small organizations, the burden that we've collectively put on these organizations for reporting has gone too far.
I think we are now collectively looking at what we can do to rebalance that risk versus oversight and prudence. I've outlined some of the areas. In regard to our policies, of the roughly 100 reports, about 45 of these reports are a result of the Treasury Board policies, so it's about 50%. We are now looking at every one of those policies and making a determination on the reporting requirements as we amend. In fact, we plan to reduce those policies from about 180 to about 45. That alone will reduce reporting requirements for all organizations, because it's going to streamline and modernize our overall policy suite. We're over halfway through that now.
But we're also, in each case, specifically looking at the small agencies. So for those policies that we do keep, we're making a determination as to what extent--if there is a report requirement--the small agency requires a report to be issued. For example, about three weeks ago Treasury Board passed a new evaluation policy. There, we're saying that in fact the small agencies do not need to comply with this policy fully or to the same extent as others do.
I talked about HR reporting. Of all our reporting, it's probably one of the more significant reporting requirements. We've had reports coming in for many different reasons. They have been streamlined, as I said. We've reduced that by roughly 85%. We are beginning to make progress in this area through our own policies and through the requirements we set through our policies, directives, and standards. About 24 of those 100 reports are because of legislation, and that's more difficult to get at.