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(3) If actual or estimated ACT-based Commonwealth public servant numbers are not part of the analysis conducted in preparing the ACT Budget, what other information has been used to inform budget analysis of the effect of actual or forecast changes in ACT-based Commonwealth public service numbers.

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

(1) The table below shows the total number of ACT Government employees paid through ACT Shared Services.

Table 1: ACT Government employees, Headcount by Month & Year (a)

Headcount	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
January	15,284	15,430	16,432	17,354	17,674	18,838	19,142	20,061	20,725	21,139
February	15,931	16,508	17,477	18,185	18,561	19,992	20,270	20,912	21,514	21,589
March	16,744	17,291	18,275	19,145	19,383	20,305	20,806	21,379	21,795	22,563
April	16,864	17,173	18,212	18,911	19,523	20,244	20,830	21,721	21,879	22,376
May	16,982	17,470	18,586	19,029	19,593	20,792	20,924	21,503	21,815	22,158
June	16,957	17,565	18,679	19,139	19,709	20,397	21,053	21,565	21,870	22,194
July	16,438	17,288	18,350	18,598	19,455	20,196	20,377	20,748	21,081	21,657
August	16,770	17,625	18,718	19,029	19,730	20,381	21,193	21,523	21,863	22,115
September	16,911	17,859	19,033	19,186	19,880	20,469	21,214	21,694	21,920	22,289
October	16,783	18,332	18,799	18,910	19,228	19,889	20,602	21,042	21,619	21,921
November	17,140	18,021	19,169	19,282	20,063	20,535	21,281	22,152	21,972	22,564
December	17,018	18,070	18,955	19,660	19,962	20,555	21,208	21,440	21,564	22,737

(a) Excludes any entity that is not paid through ACT Shared Services, such as the Cultural Facilities Corporation; Calvary Public Hospital; Legal Aid Office, ACT; Legislative Assembly Member’s staff. Also excludes the ACT Executive (Ministers and their advisors) and Board Members.

(2) The number of ACT-based Commonwealth public servants is one of a suite of indicators used to quality assure forecasts of economic activity (as measured by State Final Demand) and economic growth (as measured by Gross State Product) included in ACT budgets. Future policy settings of the Commonwealth Government, including those around the Australian Public Service (APS), have been noted as a risk to the ACT’s economic outlook in the past few ACT budgets.

The table below shows the total number of APS jobs from 30 June 2007 to 30 June 2016. The 2016-17 ACT Budget provided an estimate of the total number of APS job losses in the Territory from June 2012 to 2019-20.

Table 2: Australian Public Service jobs – ACT and Australia, June 2007 to June 2016

	ACT			Total - Australia
	Ongoing	Non-ongoing	Total	Ongoing	Non-ongoing	Total
30 Jun 2007	50,959	5,110	56,069	143,534	11,553	155,087
31 Dec 2007	52,369	5,034	57,403	146,809	11,989	158,798
30 Jun 2008	53,496	4,628	58,124	147,364	11,929	159,293
31 Dec 2008	53,844	4,317	58,161	147,467	10,904	158,371
30 Jun 2009	55,447	4,345	59,792	149,818	11,452	161,270
31 Dec 2009	55,729	4,258	59,987	149,650	11,432	161,082
30 Jun 2010	57,115	4,835	61,950	150,428	13,356	163,784
31 Dec 2010	57,413	4,398	61,811	150,817	12,006	162,823
30 Jun 2011	58,971	4,815	63,786	152,720	12,749	165,469
31 Dec 2011	60,135	4,675	64,810	153,194	13,388	166,582
30 Jun 2012	61,968	4,417	66,385	153,466	13,864	167,330
31 Dec 2012	61,432	3,703	65,135	151,334	13,120	164,454

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