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CHIEF MINISTER FOR THE AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION

QUESTION 587

Government Service - Furniture Purchases and Storage

MR KAINE - Asked the Chief Minister upon notice on 15 October 1991:

(5) Further to your response to Question No.518 (5) that the

amalgamation of all ACT Government furniture purchase and

storage was being considered in the Budget context has it been

decided to amalgamate these functions into one single authority;

if not, why not?

MS FOLLETT - The answer to the members question is as follows:

No decision has been taken yet, but one is likely this financial year. In tabling the 1991-92 Budget, the Government announced measures to ensure the costs of providing corporate services in the ACTGS were progressively reduced. A key element of the Governments strategy is the establishment of a Corporate Services Management Board, comprising Agency Heads, to strategically develop proposals for the Government on, and to otherwise manage, the further rationalisation of the full range of common services such as personnel, information technology, fleet and plant, property and accommodation, purchasing, storage and supply, printing and publishing, and many other like services.

An ACTGS Corporate Services Bureau has also been established from units formerly in the Departments of Education and the Arts, Urban Services and Chief Ministers, giving immediate savings of $1.5M this financial year. The rationalisation of printing, public relations and occupational health and safety functions will provide another $0.35M in savings this year.

Larger questions of maximising economies of scale and revising ACTGS purchasing policies will be addressed by the Bureau, and

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