As a ministerial adviser, a lot of your time will be spent helping manage the flow of information to the minister. This guide provides five key steps in dealing with submissions to the minister. 

Submissions are drafted by public service officials and they provide formal evidence and recommendations for ministers. They are submitted as part of a package of documents, including decisions that need to be made. Submissions provide a formal record of a minister’s decisions that can be referred back to if necessary. 

Ministerial advisers can increase the quality of submissions by reviewing and adding their own comments to them before they are ready to go to the minister.