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Chief Minister, Treasury and Economic Development Directorate—employee assistance program

Mr Barr (in reply to a question and a supplementary question by Mr Wall on Thursday, 11 May 2017):

1. The response to QON No. 15, asked by Mr Coe on 27 February 2017 through the Standing Committee on Economic Development and Tourism, used information provided by the EAP provider. It has come to light that the information provided was based on hours accessed, not numbers of individual employees who accessed the scheme.

The corrected information is provided in the table below. I have written to the Committee Chair to correct the record.

FY 14/15

FY 15/16

Annual EAP usage (by hours accessed) as reported in March 2017 1

164

493

Annual EAP usage per Individual

104

225

It should be noted that Administrative Arrangements occurred in January 2015, increasing the size of the directorate by approximately 25%. The figures for 2014/15 do not illustrate a full year impact of these additional staff.

2. No – refer above table. One-fifth of the staff in my directorate did not access the employee assistance scheme.

It is noted that:

- for 2014/15, 37 % of new referrals were work related issues compared with 63% personal related issues;
- for 2015/16, 33% of new referrals were work related compared with 67% personal related issues;
- the industry benchmark for those periods was 60% work related and 40% personal related;
- staff are actively encouraged to access the service; and
- family members of directorate staff are entitled to access the scheme.

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1 Original hours reported (as provided by the EAP provider) in QON 15 arising from the Standing Committee on Economic Development and Tourism.

Government—procurement policies

Ms Fitzharris (in reply to a question by Mr Wall on Tuesday, 15 August 2017):

ACT Health supports local business and would only change sourcing options where value for money was evident.


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