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Other Admin

1,662

8%

HR (Payroll, Non-Payroll & Records Services)

1,383

7%

Injury Management

182

1%

Finance

788

4%

Professional Standards

155

1%

Total On-Costs

20,922

100%

NB: Numbers may not add due to rounding

(2) Administrative on-costs are indexed by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in budget outyears and the proportionate split therefore remains constant.

(3) The only differences in the total costs of employees undertaking equivalent roles in different directorates would arise from the application of relevant workers’ compensation rates.

Chief Minister, Treasury and Economic Development Directorate—financial statements
(Question No 629)

Mrs Jones asked the Treasurer, upon notice, on 11 February 2022:

(1) How many times, since 1 January 2015, has the Chief Minister, Treasury and Economic Development Directorate requested the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) provide advice on how the ACT Government’s financial statements should, or could be, presented, given the requirements in the ABS’s Australian System of Government Finance Statistics: Concepts, Sources and Methods, 2015 and related standards.

(2) For each request for advice referred to in part (1), (a) what date was the initial request made, (b) what issue did the request relate to, (c) on what date was a final response provided by the ABS and (d) on what dates was any correspondence about the request sent to the ABS or received from the ABS (as the case may be).

Mr Barr: The answer to the member’s question is as follows:

(1) Advice has been sought from the ABS on how the financial statements should be presented in accordance with GFS on one occasion since 1 January 2015.

(2) The initial request was made on 19 July 2017 and related to presentation of the ABS GFS Cash Surplus / Deficit Including Finance Leases and Similar Arrangements. The final response was provided on 20 July 2017 with additional correspondence also received and sent on this date.

Advice has also been sought from the ABS during this time on the treatment and classification of various transactions and sector classification of reporting entities. A summary of this advice is provided below.

Initial Date of Request

Issue

Final Response Date

Additional Correspondence Received

Additional Correspondence Sent

11 March 2015

ACTTAB Sale GFS Treatment

28 August 2015

N/A

N/A

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