Multicultural Affairs Expenses and Staffing

In reply to Ms HILDYARD (Reynell) (24 July, 2019). (Estimates Committee A)

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier): I have been advised of the following:

The 2019-20 Budgeted Employee Expenses for Multicultural Affairs includes $472,000 (3 FTEs) of corporate overhead expenditure.

Corporate overhead expenditure includes FTE effort relating to finance, procurement, records management, human resources, facilities, communications, project management and ICT services to support the operations of Multicultural Affairs.

As instructed by the Department of Treasury and Finance, corporate expenditure is allocated across agency programs. The allocation across programs for the department's agency statement is based on each program's FTE weighting.

Programs that transfer as a result of machinery of government have corporate expenditure allocated based on actuals transferred with the Program. Allocations in line with the Department of Treasury and Finance model occur in the year following the transfer.

Multicultural Affairs transferred to the Department of the Premier and Cabinet on 1 July 2018, so overhead related employee expenses for the 2018-19 Budget are based on actual overheads transferred to the Department of the Premier and Cabinet from the Department for Human Services for 2018-19.

For 2019-20 overheads are allocated in line with the Department of Treasury and Finance model.

The remaining increase in budgeted expenses allocated to employee expenses from 2018-19 Original budget to 2019-20 budget ($19,000) is due to indexation.