SHARED SERVICES

In reply to various members (25-27 June 2008).

The Hon. K.O. FOLEY (Port Adelaide—Deputy Premier, Treasurer, Minister for Industry and Trade, Minister for Federal/State Relations): I am advised that an across government collection of baseline data relating to agency corporate and business support services was undertaken in March 2007, using 2005-06 data.

Agencies provided a broad range of information relating to their corporate governance arrangements, including activity levels, volumes, costs and resources involved in the delivery of corporate and business support services during 2005-06.

The data has assisted in determining a shared services model suitable for implementation in the South Australian public sector.

Since the data was collected, agencies have continued to make changes to their corporate support functions, services and systems and hence, significant effort is expended by Shared Services SA during pre-transition and general discovery processes to gather more targeted and detailed information relating to in-scope services. As a result, some of the initial services where baseline data was collected have not been included, whilst the in-scope service designs have been refined and finalised.

To release 2005-06 agency baseline data now would misrepresent the current status of data collection could be misleading. Therefore, there is no plan to release it.