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  <date date="2023-08-30T10:30:00+09:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Estimates Replies</name>
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      <name>Expenditure Targets</name>
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          <heading>Expenditure Targets</heading>
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        <name>In reply to Mr McBRIDE</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">MacKillop</electorate>
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          <question date="2023-08-30T01:00:00+09:30">
            <name>Expenditure Targets</name>
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          <inserted>In reply to <by role="member" id="5383" referenceid="8d20958c10414e3591302354e69fab31">Mr McBRIDE (MacKillop)</by> (29 June 2023).  (Estimates Committee B)</inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="4842" referenceid="78a22826e43d4639bdfa63b5f3ef73f9" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Lee</electorate>
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            <name>Treasurer</name>
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            <name>Minister for Defence and Space Industries</name>
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          <question date="2023-08-30T01:00:00+09:30">
            <name>Expenditure Targets</name>
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            <by role="member" id="4842" referenceid="78a22826e43d4639bdfa63b5f3ef73f9">The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN (Lee—Treasurer):</by>  The following information is provided on behalf of all ministers:</inserted>
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          <inserted>The government is often required to make decisions between budgets as circumstances dictate. In making these decisions, consideration is given whether to provide any additional resources to agency budgets. In circumstances where it is agreed to provide additional resources, agencies' expenditure is increased to the approved level.</inserted>
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          <inserted>In the absence of a decision to increase an agency's budget, it is the government's expectation that chief executives will manage their resources and meet the budget targets that were approved by cabinet in the 2023-24 budget.</inserted>
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          <inserted>Agency budgets will continue to be monitored over the course of 2023-24 to track agency progress against approved budgets.</inserted>
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