Budget Expenditure

In reply to Mr KNOLL (Schubert) (27 July 2017). (Estimates Committee B)

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

1. SA Health issues budgets at a unit level annually to reflect funding commitments to be incurred in the given year. The Office for the Ageing unit budget across the forward estimates could therefore be assumed to represent the 2017-18 budget adjusted for indexation and any other determined initiatives as required in that year. No material changes are foreshadowed, presently.