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  <name>House of Assembly</name>
  <date date="2020-07-23" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
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      <name>Ministerial Staff</name>
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          <heading>Ministerial Staff</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4842" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Lee</electorate>
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          <question date="2020-05-13" qonNum="69">
            <name>Ministerial Staff</name>
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          <inserted>69 <by role="member" id="4842">The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN (Lee)</by> (13 May 2020).  What is the number of ministerial advisers funded for each minister in the government as at 12 May 2020?</inserted>
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      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4338" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Dunstan</electorate>
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            <name>Premier</name>
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        <questions>
          <question date="2020-05-13" qonNum="69">
            <name>Ministerial Staff</name>
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            <by role="member" id="4338">The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier):</by>  I have been advised:</inserted>
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          <inserted>The number of ministerial advisers<sup>1</sup> funded for each minister in the government, as at 12 May 2020, was:</inserted>
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                <cell>Minister</cell>
                <cell>Ministerial Advisers (FTE)</cell>
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                <cell>The Hon. S Marshall</cell>
                <cell>23</cell>
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              <row>
                <cell>The Hon. VA Chapman</cell>
                <cell>4</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>The Hon. RI Lucas</cell>
                <cell>5</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>The Hon. JAW Gardner</cell>
                <cell>5</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>The Hon. DW Ridgway</cell>
                <cell>4</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>The Hon. JMA Lensink</cell>
                <cell>4</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>The Hon. DG Pisoni</cell>
                <cell>4</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>The Hon. SG Wade</cell>
                <cell>8</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>The Hon. DC Van Holst Pellekaan</cell>
                <cell>3</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>The Hon. R Sanderson</cell>
                <cell>4</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>The Hon. TJ Whetstone</cell>
                <cell>4</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>The Hon. CL Wingard</cell>
                <cell>4</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>The Hon. DJ Speirs</cell>
                <cell>4</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>The Hon. SK Knoll</cell>
                <cell>6</cell>
              </row>
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                <cell>Total Ministerial Advisers</cell>
                <cell>82</cell>
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          <inserted>¹Ministerial advisers includes any ministerial appointments such as chief of staff, media advisers etc.</inserted>
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