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    <name>Estimates Replies</name>
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      <name>Consultants and Contractors</name>
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          <heading>Consultants and Contractors</heading>
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        <name>In reply to Mr BASHAM</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Finniss</electorate>
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          <question date="2024-09-24T01:30:00+09:30">
            <name>Consultants and Contractors</name>
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          <inserted>In reply to <by role="member" id="5380" referenceid="d64b603fb34d46f9bfab2658bb9429d2">Mr BASHAM (Finniss)</by> (26 June 2024).  (Estimates Committee A)</inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="5389" referenceid="258e99f5e8a5469db1af773d39ba5018" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. B.I. BOYER</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Wright</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Education, Training and Skills</name>
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          <question date="2024-09-24T01:30:00+09:30">
            <name>Consultants and Contractors</name>
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            <by role="member" id="5389" referenceid="258e99f5e8a5469db1af773d39ba5018">The Hon. B.I. BOYER (Wright—Minister for Education, Training and Skills):</by>  I have been advised that for the Office for Early Childhood Development has a consultancy budget of $300,000 included within the office's 2024-25 original budget. Decisions about consultants are however made on a case by case basis. Costs associated with any consultancy engagements will be managed from within the overall goods and services budget. </inserted>
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          <inserted>For contractors, decisions are taken by the office to engage the services of contractors in order for it to deliver on its objectives. </inserted>
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          <inserted>The Office for Early Childhood Development will outline all names of contracting firms and the work undertaken above $10,000 that were engaged in 2024-25, as part of the department's 2024-25 annual report once it is finalised and audited.</inserted>
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