SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Information That Is Publicly Available Is Not Included in the Supplementary Information
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Information that is publicly available is not included in the Supplementary Information. The information presented below appears essentially as provided to the committees. DIVISION 3: PREMIER AND CABINET - SERVICES 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 11 [Supplementary Information No A42.] Question: Mr M.J. Birney: I am interested to know the number of positions that will be lost from regional areas as a result of the government’s shared corporate services program, the towns they will be lost from, and the agencies within those towns. (First dot point, page 70) Answer: Non-Health and Education Sector Agencies The Whole of Government Business case for savings for this group of agencies did not include any reductions in regionally based Corporate Services staff. The majority of ‘back office’ corporate services processing (eg. Accounts payable, Accounts receivable and Payroll) is already undertaken in Perth. Agency intentions with regard to possible realignment of their regional corporate service positions is not known to this Department and will need to be obtained from the agencies concerned. Education and Training Sector It is estimated that approximately 30 Full Time Equivalent (FTE) TAFE positions will be surplus in the regional areas as a result of the government’s shared corporate services program. The impact on each regional location will not be known until detailed analysis is finalised with each TAFE College by the end of 2005. Further, the number of positions lost will be dependent upon the way in which the six (6) regional colleges restructure their finance and human resource areas. Health Sector It is anticipated that approximately 91 rural FTEs will be transferred to the Health Corporate Network (HCN) Shared Service Centre. It is important to note that these numbers are still fluid and are subject to the final business model to be implemented by HCN. Therefore, these are the maximum number of possible transfers. It is noted that where there is proportion or part of an FTE in a regional location, there will most likely be a reshaping of the position, thus lessening the impact. The estimated reductions by regions are: Kimberley 8.4 Pilbara/Gascoyne 11.4 Midwest 9.8 Great Southern 10.8 Wheatbelt 15.9 Goldfields 13.4 South West 21.8 TOTAL 91.5 Savings from this initiative will be redirected to the front line services of Health, Education and Training, and Law and Order. [Supplementary Information No A43.] Question: Mr R.F. Johnson: I am referring to service 3, management of policy. Has the monthly electronic newsletter, “The Social Agenda”, been published since the first edition in January? (Service 3 – Management of Policy) Answer: No. On 23 January 2005, the State election was called and the Government went into caretaker mode until early March 2005. In the aftermath of the election, the Policy Division (including the Social Policy Unit) was restructured leading to a delay in the production of the second edition of the newsletter. The second edition of The Social Agenda will be emailed in the next fortnight. It is envisaged that the Social Policy Unit’s e-newsletter will continue to be produced on a monthly basis. E512 [ASSEMBLY - Estimates Committees - Supplementary Information] [Supplementary Information No A44.] Question: Mr R.F. Johnson: How many people are employed in the Department of the Premier and Cabinet and under which categories are they employed - for instance, media advisers, policy advisers and other categories - compared with the 11 February 2001? (Third dot point on page 69) Answer: Estimated full time equivalents (FTEs) are provided for 2000/01 and 2004/05. These figures identify corporate and executive support FTEs separately rather than allocated to allocated to services as in the printed budget statements and annual reports. Services (2004/05) 2000/01 2004/05 FTE FTE Support to the Premier as Head of Government Government Media Office 21.32 24.0 Graffiti Task Force (transferred to Policy Jul 2001) 5.28 Overseas Representation 10.49 17.4 Premiers Office 18.72 20.6 Management of Matters of State Ministerial Offices (inc Leaders of Opposition) 184.66 188.28 Electorate Offices 135.88 135.21 State Administration 57.05 57.27 Federal Affairs/Indian Ocean Territories 6.85 (transferred from Policy Jan 2003) Security Planning and Coordination 1.87 Commissions and Inquiries 10.53 8.07 Physical Activity Task Force 2.36 Functional Review Implementation 5.99 Ex-ACC redeployees 24.73 Policy Management 11.1 45.00 Federal Affairs/Indian Ocean Territories 12.85 (transferred to Management of Matters of State Jan 2003) Native Title 8.47 (estab as separate service from Jul 2002) Review and Coordination Branch 8.43 (transferred to Public Sector Management Jul 2001) Safer WA (transferred to Crime Prevention July 2003) 0.31 Services (2004/05) 2000/01 2004/05 FTE FTE Support for the Premier as Minister for Public Sector Management 36.77 46.11 (Review and Coordination branch transferred from Policy Management Jul 2001) Parliamentary, statutory and legislative publishing 25.21 21.38 Management of Constitutional Centre programs 4.92 6.79 Promotion and support of citizenship and multiculturalism in 19.74 Western Australia (Transferred from Contract and Management Services Jul 2001) Native Title policy development, implementation and negotiation 22.14 (Transferred from Policy Division Jul 2002 Science and innovation promotion and support 17.02 (Transferred from Dept of Industry and Technology Jul 2002) Support for implementation of the State’s road safety initiatives 16.92 (Transferred from Department of Transport Jul 2002) e-Government policy and coordination 21.63 (Transferred from Dept of Industry and Technology Feb 2003) Implementation of the State Crime Prevention Strategy 22.49 (Functions transferred from Policy Management July 2004) Corporate and Executive Support 107.76 119.51 TOTAL FTES 659.75 851.36 [7 - 10 June 2005] E513 [Supplementary Information No A45.] Question: Mr P.D. Omodei: What are the financial boundaries set by the government for the Oracle contract for shared services delivery and has there been a cost blow out? If there has, by how much has it blown out? (Major Achievements Page 85) Answer: The Government has signed a $66.8M, ten-year contract with Oracle for the delivery of Software Systems to support the implementation of Shared Corporate Services across the sector. There has been no cost blow out as the contract was signed on Thursday 9 June 2005, with work commencing Friday 10 June 2005. [Supplementary Information No A46.] Question: Mr J.H.D. Day: Where in the budget papers is the $250,000 that the Premier announced would be available for revitalising and upgrading the Roleystone Town Centre, and when will the funds be made available? (Service 1, page 76) Answer: An appropriation of $250,000 for the Roleystone Improvement fund will be administered by the Department of Planning and Infrastructure (DPI) and is shown in the Grants and Subsidies table in Division 39 of the Budget Statements at page 644. The additional funding has currently been allocated to DPI in 2007/08, but I am advised that DPI is expecting that initial work on the project can commence in 2005-06 though internal prioritisation of Departmental works. [Supplementary Information No A47.] Question: Mr M.J. Birney: How many public servants were there when the Premier took power on 11 February 2001, and how many are there as at the latest updated figure? Answer: Information is available at the dates shown below for public sector employees of public sector agencies that are obliged to report human resource minimum obligatory requirements (HR MOIR) information. No separate information is available for “public servants”, that is, those employed under Part 3 of the Public Sector Management Act 1994. Full Time Equivalent (FTE) count as at 30 December 2000 was 86,555. FTE count as at 31 March 2001 was 88,016. FTE count as at 30 December 2004 was 96,154. FTE count as at 31 March 2005 was 97,607 The increase from March 2001 (88,016 FTEs) to March 2005 (97,617 FTEs) is 9,601 FTEs. Based on figures published in the Profile of the Western Australian State Government Workforce and available on the Department of the Premier and Cabinet website, staffing levels for the Department of Education and Training increased by 3,590 FTEs and the Department of Health increased by 3,261 FTEs, and these two agencies account for 71% of the increase in FTEs between the two periods. The remainder of the increase took place in many smaller agencies. [Supplementary Information No A48.] Question: Mr P.D. Omodei: Can the Premier provide the number of people employed in the Government Media Office, and their names and salary levels? (Major Policy Decisions, page 70) Answer: The following officers were employed in the Government Media Office as at 9 June 2005. A number of Government Media officers work part time, and the salaries reported hereunder are calculated at the part-time rate. Name Title FTE Salary Armstrong, Maureen Margaret Officer 0.67 $24,994.12 Arthur, John Stuart Director 1.00 $121,509.00 Athenour, Jillian Linda Admin Assistant 1.00 $40,699.00 Bibby, Barbara Media Monitoring Officer 0.70 $30,069.90 Brennan, Shaneen Jan Media Monitoring Officer 1.00 $41,803.00 Chalker, Jennifer Mary Coordinator Word Processing 1.00 $42,957.00 Chambers, Suzanne Sarah Media Monitoring Officer 0.90 $37,622.70 Clarke, Kristi Renae Community Liaison Officer 1.00 $51,562.00 D'Alonzo, Lisa-marie Media Monitoring Officer 0.60 $29,901.00 Gard, Sheree Elizabeth Media Monitoring