Page 3720 - Week 10 - Thursday, 19 September 2019
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Ms Stephen-Smith: The answer to the member’s question is as follows:
(1) The Health Central Provision is an allocation of funding set aside in the Territory’s forward estimates to fund future growth in Health services.
(2) No. Funding is released from the Health Central Provision by the Government through the budget process.
(3) The Health Central Provision was established by a decision of the Government during the 2015-16 Budget to commence from 2017-18.
(4) No. This decision is Cabinet in Confidence.
(5) The Health Central Provision is recorded as a Budgeted Expense in the Territory’s forward estimates.
(6) The Provision is financed by the Territory’s consolidated revenue.
(7) The Provision is not financed by withholding funds from any other portfolio/entity. Please see answer to question (6) above.
(8) Funding for the Provision is centrally held and included in the Territory’s Budget consolidated financial statements.
(9) The Health Central Provision is a sub-component of the ‘Health Funding Envelope’. The Health Funding Envelope and the Health Central Provision is explained in the 2016-17 Budget Paper 3, page 105. Similar explanations are provided in 2017-18, Budget Paper 3, page 102, 2018-19, Budget Paper 3, page 114 and 2019-20, Budget Paper 3, page 107.
(10) In 2019-20, the Health Central Provision will fund the initiatives listed on the Appropriation tables (Controlled Recurrent Payments) contained in Budget Statements C under the sections ‘2019-20 Budget Policy Decisions’, with the exception of ‘Implementing the Independent Review into the Workplace Culture within ACT Public Health Services’ which is mostly funded from outside the Health Central Provision. The allocation of the 2020-21 and 2021-22 Health Central Provision will be a decision for future Budget processes.
(11) The question is unclear. Additional information, including the source of the percentages referenced in the question, is required to provide an informed response.
(12) Setting of the 2023-24 Health Central Provision will be a decision for the Government during the 2020-21 Budget process.
(13) Once the Health Central Provision is allocated to the Health Portfolio during each financial year’s Budget process, it is the responsibility of the ACT Health Directorate and Canberra Health Services to administer the funds.
(14) The governance and auditing arrangements are the same of all other funds allocated to the Health Portfolio.
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