House of Assembly Fifty-Third Parliament, First Session (53-1) 53 1 Parliament of South Australia House of Assembly published Estimates Replies Grant Revenue Grant Revenue In reply to Mr MARSHALL House of Assembly Dunstan Leader of the Opposition Grant Revenue In reply to Mr MARSHALL (Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition) (17 July 2014). (Estimates Committee B) The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS House of Assembly West Torrens Minister for Finance Minister for State Development Minister for Mineral Resources and Energy Minister for Small Business Grant Revenue The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS (West Torrens—Treasurer, Minister for Finance, Minister for State Development, Minister for Mineral Resources and Energy, Minister for Small Business): The change in grant revenue (including GST, specific purpose payments, national partnership payments and other contributions and grants) between the 2013-14 Mid-Year Budget Review and the 2014-15 budget over the period 2013-14 to 2016-17 is a reduction of $423 million. Table 1.3 shows the decisions made by the commonwealth government which have reduced the level of grants to be paid to South Australia compared to that previously agreed ($498 million). Table 1.14 shows parameter changes in grant revenue since the 2013-14 Mid-Year Budget Review. Total grant revenue includes funding from the commonwealth (GST, national partnership payments, and specific purposes payments) and other sources. The other reconciling item is the movement in grants received for specific expenditure items. These are disclosed as policy items and presented as revenue offsets in the Budget Measures Statement. The table below provides a reconciliation of the movement in grants between the Mid-Year Budget Review and budget, and where they are presented in the budget papers. The decline in commonwealth grant revenue of $202 million between 2013-14 and 2016-17 referred to by the Leader of the Opposition in the estimates committee hearing is the parameter change in commonwealth national partnership and specific purpose payments since the 2013-14 Mid-Year Budget Review. It does not include any policy changes to grant revenue, or changes (policy or parameter) to other grant revenue lines. Total grant revenue—2014-15 Budget compared to 2013-14 MYBR estimate ($million) 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 Total grant revenue—2013-14 MYBR 7,925 8,274 9,191 9,841 Total grant revenue—2014-15 Budget (table 1.11) 7,855 8,270 9,064 9,620 Change in total grant revenue—2013-14 MYBR to 2014-15 Budget -70 -4 -128 -221 Breakdown of change in total grant revenue Commonwealth budget cuts—table 1.3 -13 -101 -160 -224 Parameter adjustments (GST, commonwealth grants and other grants)—table 1.14 -48 30 -79 -128 less Parameter adjustments included in table 1.31 8 -1 -3 -4 Grants received as contributions to expenditure items—table 1.12 2 -1 66 109 127 Change in total grant revenue—2013-14 MYBR to 2014-15 budget -70 -4 -128 -221 1. The adjustments in the other Commonwealth Budget impacts line in table 1.3 are treated as parameter adjustments and are also included in table 1.14. All other items in table 1.3 are classified as policy adjustments and included in table 1.12 in the line revenue measures—other. All policy items are also separately identified in the Budget Measures Statement. 2. These items are separately disclosed as revenue offsets in the Budget Measures Statement and included under the revenue offsets line in table 1.12. Includes funding received for the North-South Corridor Darlington upgrade, South Eastern Freeway—Mount Barker Interchange, Project Agreement on Improving Trachoma Control for indigenous Australians and the National Partnership Agreement on Homelessness. Also includes a reduction in grants associated with the transfer of Centre for Cancer Biology Research Fellows and their teams to the University of South Australia.