Housing SA

171 Ms SANDERSON (Adelaide) (15 October 2015). In relation to full time equivalents in Budget Paper 4, Volume 1, page 115—

1. Can the minister please explain the drop in FTEs from 30.5 in 2013-14 to 12 in 2015-16?

2. Have all of these staff been transferred to Renewal SA?

The Hon. Z.L. BETTISON (Ramsay—Minister for Communities and Social Inclusion, Minister for Social Housing, Minister for Multicultural Affairs, Minister for Ageing, Minister for Youth, Minister for Volunteers): I have been advised:

1. For the 2013-14 and 2014-15 budgets, an estimated result of 30.5 FTEs was reported. Consistent with long-standing practice, this figure was derived by aggregating the estimated effort on policy-related activities by all staff providing operational services on behalf of the South Australian Housing Trust, and therefore did not correspond to specific FTE roles.

For 2015-16, this methodology was replaced, and the estimated 12 FTEs as at 30 June 2015 reported for the 2015-16 budget correspond to specific FTE roles within Housing SA.

2. The decrease is a result of the change of methodology and not a result of staff transferring to Renewal SA.