Page 3237 - Week 11 - Thursday, 13 September 1990
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MR STEVENSON: I have a supplementary question. If whoever is appointed to conduct the whatever it is is required to inquire into social implications, will it indeed be an inquiry?
MR HUMPHRIES: I think the terminology is really not terribly relevant or helpful in this regard. You can call it an inquiry if you wish; you can call it an assessment. The term I actually used in the press release yesterday, I believe, was an independent assessment or analysis of the school closure program. The terminology is not particularly important; the terms of reference are what defines the work that the person who is commissioned to do this work does. I suggest that the way in which that is done is really a question within those terms of reference for that person.
ACT Government Service
MR MOORE: Mr Speaker, my question is directed to the Chief Minister and it follows a series of questions by Mr Stevenson about the number of staff that are in the public service. Mr Kaine, if one goes through budget paper No. 5 concerning program information, at the end of each program average staffing levels are given. If you add them up you find that last year the staffing numbers were 15,506.29 and this year they are 16,268. The difference of approximately 760 is mostly accounted for in terms of the extra police officers that we have gained in that time; but the numbers are still between 15,500 and 16,200, which is nowhere near the 17,000 figure or the 21,000 figure that Mr Stevenson has been bandying around. Is there a series of staff that are not included in this, which probably includes ACTEW which I notice is not in there? How many people are there in ACTEW and where are the records of the other staff so that the members of the Assembly can have access to them?
MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, I will answer both Mr Stevenson's and Mr Moore's questions. I will table the answer as soon as I have done so; I have about a minute left. In answer to Mr Stevenson's question, I have the figures that have been extracted. There are 15,668 full-time permanent and temporary staff and there are 1,731 part-time permanent and temporary staff, giving a total of 17,399. In addition to that there are 2,619 casual staff, 784 of them full-time and 1,835 part-time. There are also 853 people on the rolls who are non-operative. That means that their names are on the books but they are not being paid and their status is being determined. If you add all these together, the total figure on the payroll is 20,871, which includes the electricity and water authority. But there is additional information that amplifies that. I will table the response, Mr Speaker, and it can be made available to the members. I present the following paper:
Public Service - staffing levels.
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