HEALTH DEPARTMENT BUDGET

97 Mr HAMILTON-SMITH (Waite) (17 July 2012). What has been the average annual increase in spending on Health in the past four financial years and what is the anticipated average annual increase in total Health outlays in the next four years in dollar and percentage terms?

The Hon. J.D. HILL (Kaurna—Minister for Health and Ageing, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Minister for the Arts): I am advised:

1. The average annual increase in expenditure across the health portfolio over the past four financial years, from 2008-09 to 2011-12 (Estimated Result), was approximately $284 million, or 7 per cent.

The budgeted annual average growth in expenditure, net of savings requirements, across the next four years from 2012-13 to 2015-16 is approximately $93 million, or 2 per cent.