House of Assembly Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2) 54 2 Parliament of South Australia House of Assembly published Estimates Replies COVID-19 Departmental Employees COVID-19 Departmental Employees The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN House of Assembly Lee COVID-19 Departmental Employees In reply to the Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN (Lee) (18 November 2020). (Estimates Committee B) The Hon. R.I. LUCAS House of Assembly Treasurer The Hon. R.I. LUCAS (Treasurer): I have been advised the following: The department's 2019-20 actual FTEs of 1 542.7 is 56.7 higher than the 2018-19 actual number of 1 486.0 FTEs. This reflects: Higher staff numbers in Super SA associated with an increase in operational activity—21.9 FTEs Increase in resources in SafeWork SA for compliance, enforcement and workplace education—20.9 FTEs Higher RevenueSA staff numbers to manage system changes associated with the land tax and payroll tax reforms—18.5 FTEs Establishment of the Board of Treasurers secretariat—4.0 FTEs Transfer of Lotteries Commission staff to the department on 1 April 2020—3.0 FTEs Additional resource required to manage the bushfire concessional loans—1.0 FTE partially offset by: Higher vacancies in 2019-20 (51.8 FTEs) compared with 2018-19 (39.0 FTEs)—12.8 FTEs The department's 2020-21 budget FTEs of 1 606.0 is 63.3 higher than the 2019-20 actual number of 1 542.7 FTEs. This reflects: Vacant positions across the department in 2019-20 assumed to be filled in 2020-21—51.8 FTEs Higher staff numbers to manage and support COVID-19 response programs—6.0 FTEs Higher RevenueSA staff numbers to manage system changes associated with land tax reforms—3.5 FTEs Higher Government Services staff to accelerate the adoption of electronic invoicing—2.0 FTEs. Parliamentary Network Support Group (PNSG) transferred to DTF on 1 October 2020 from the Department for Infrastructure and Transport. Actual FTE's were for comparative purposes included the 2018-19 data. The Small Business Grant team was established by mobilising staff within DTF which were not back-filled resulting in no significant movement in FTEs. Actual FTEs for the Health Accounting Taxation Services (HATS) and Oracle Debt Management and Receipting (ODMR) business units were transferred to DTF on 1 July 2019 and 1 December 2019 respectively and for comparative purposes FTEs were included in the 2018-19 data.