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(8) The Minister is kept informed by a weekly health executive meeting and ministerial briefs as required.
(9) In preparation for the AMHU ligature minimisation works, consultation occurred with the office of the Human Rights Commission, the ACT Mental Health Consumer Network and Carers ACT. Additional information was prepared for admitted people and their families.
Budget—arts funding
(Question No 2796)
Mrs Dunne asked the Minister for the Arts, Creative Industries and Cultural Events, upon notice, on 25 October 2019 (redirected to the Acting Minister for the Arts, Creative Industries and Cultural Events):
(1) Why has the Government’s budget accountability indicator figure remained static at 350 000 for 2019-20 and the three years prior, for key arts and program-funded organisations that are reporting a significantly increasing trend of the number of attendees to their arts events, rising to a figure of 492 767 in 2018-19.
(2) What is the point of key arts and program-funded organisations reporting attendance figures if the Government makes no use of them.
(3) If the Government does make use of the reported attendance figures, to what purposes are they put.
(4) To what extent do attendance figures inform Government budget considerations; if none, why.
Ms Stephen-Smith: The answer to the member’s question is as follows:
(1) The figure is an average of attendance figures observed over a period of time prior to 2019-20. Given the unpredictability of attendance figures from year to year, which is influenced by a variety of factors including number and type of events and programs scheduled by organisations from year to year, it has remained unchanged.
(2) These figures are used by Government as a quantitative measure of the reach and impact of arts funding in the community. The figures are part of the acquittals provided by funded arts organisations as a requirement of funding.
(3) The figures are used as one measure of the impact of arts funding through participation and access by community members in programs and activities funded by the ACT Government.
(4) Attendance figures are used to inform Government budget considerations on the reach of funded arts organisations and regarding access to facilities.
Health—infrastructure risks
(Question No 2797)
Mrs Dunne asked the Minister for Health, upon notice, on 25 October 2019:
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