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  <name>House of Assembly</name>
  <date date="2017-11-14" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>STEM Education</name>
      <text id="20171114daf08e591859487790001283">
        <inserted>
          <heading>STEM Education</heading>
        </inserted>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="4343" kind="question">
        <name>Mr GARDNER</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Morialta</electorate>
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          <question date="2017-08-16" qonNum="373">
            <name>STEM Education</name>
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        <text id="20171114daf08e591859487790001284">
          <inserted>373 <by role="member" id="4343">Mr GARDNER (Morialta)</by> (16 August 2017).  In relation to the total list of STEM Works projects across all sites—</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20171114daf08e591859487790001285">
          <inserted>(a)&amp;#x9;How much was spent on consultancy fees, project management fees, and other non-building related expenses;</inserted>
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        <text id="20171114daf08e591859487790001286">
          <inserted>(b)&amp;#x9;How much was retained within DECD;</inserted>
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        <text id="20171114daf08e591859487790001287">
          <inserted>(c)&amp;#x9;How much was retained within DPTI; and</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20171114daf08e591859487790001288">
          <inserted>(d)&amp;#x9;What is the full breakdown of any other expenses related to this project?</inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4622" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.E. CLOSE</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Port Adelaide</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Education and Child Development</name>
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            <name>Minister for Higher Education and Skills</name>
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        <questions>
          <question date="2017-08-16" qonNum="373">
            <name>STEM Education</name>
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        <text id="20171114daf08e591859487790001289">
          <inserted>
            <by role="member" id="4622">The Hon. S.E. CLOSE (Port Adelaide—Minister for Education and Child Development, Minister for Higher Education and Skills):</by>  I have been advised of the following:</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20171114daf08e591859487790001290">
          <inserted>As work is still underway on the STEM Works project, a breakdown on the final amounts allocated and spent cannot be provided at this point in time. </inserted>
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          <inserted>All funding allocated for the STEM Works project will be spent on schools and the Department for Education and Child Development will not be retaining any of the funding.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20171114daf08e591859487790001292">
          <inserted>At the conclusion of the project it will be possible to provide a breakdown on what was spent, including general expenses and those incurred by both the Department for Planning, Transport and Infrastructure and the Department for Education and Child Development.</inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
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