Operating Budgets

309 The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN (Lee) (25 July 2018). Have any departments or agencies estimated to have underspent against their approved 2017-18 operating budgets?

(a) Which agencies are estimated to have underspent?

(b) By how much has each agency estimated to have underspent?

(c) What are the reasons for each agency's underspending?

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier): The Treasurer has advised:

During 2017-18 agency budgets were revised to reflect decisions made in the Mid-Year Budget Review as well as any subsequent decisions of the government. Agencies are monitored against that revised budget.

In the May monitoring report the following agencies were estimating to underspend against their approved 2017-18 operating budget:

Premier and Cabinet ($25.4 million) as a result of delays in providing grants from the Energy Production Program and lower staff costs

Police ($3.8 million) as a result of unsworn vacancies and lower workers compensation expense

Treasury and Finance ($3.7 million) as a result of the reclassification of expenditure (operating to investing) and higher cost recovery revenue associated with the Super SA ICT Solution project

Human Services ($3.2 million) as a result of changes associated with the state's NDIS payments and consolidation of disability services

Education ($2.8 million) as a result of a grant received from BHP Billiton Olympic Dam Corporation to jointly fund the development of an early learning centre in Roxby Downs and the reclassification of expenditure (operating to investing).

The state budget, which will be released on 4 September 2018, will provide updated estimates of agencies' expected 2017-18 expenditure, including those agencies that have reported underspends against budget.