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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2014-10-14" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Third Parliament, First Session (53-1)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>53</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>1</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
  <house>Legislative Council</house>
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  <dateModified time="2022-08-06T14:30:00+00:00" />
  <proceeding>
    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <text id="201410142dbaf35ab1cf44fd80000767">
      <heading>Answers to Questions</heading>
    </text>
    <subject>
      <name>Consumer and Business Services</name>
      <text id="201410142dbaf35ab1cf44fd80000768">
        <heading>Consumer and Business Services</heading>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="3164" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <questions>
          <question date="2014-10-14">
            <name>Consumer and Business Services</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <text id="201410142dbaf35ab1cf44fd80000769">In reply to <by role="member" id="3164">the Hon. S.G. WADE </by>(20 May 2014).  </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="1821" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. G.E. GAGO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <electorate id="">Minister for Employment, Higher Education and Skills, Minister for Science and Information Economy, Minister for the Status of Women, Minister for Business Services and Consumers</electorate>
        <questions>
          <question date="2014-10-14">
            <name>Consumer and Business Services</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <text id="201410142dbaf35ab1cf44fd80000770">
          <by role="member" id="1821">The Hon. G.E. GAGO (Minister for Employment, Higher Education and Skills, Minister for Science and Information Economy, Minister for the Status of Women, Minister for Business Services and Consumers):</by>  I am advised:</text>
        <text id="201410142dbaf35ab1cf44fd80000771">The demand for face-to-face services at the Berri office had been low for an extended period of time. Consumer and Business Services' stopped collecting data on customer usage specific to Berri and the surrounding region in 2012. CBS had been monitoring work demands for several years through monthly activity reporting. The monthly reports that recorded telephone and counter enquiries evidenced a declining demand for services. The average number of counter enquiries that were not referred to other agencies or specialist areas in the Adelaide office were around two per day in 2009, 1.5 per day in 2010, and one every two days in 2011.</text>
      </talker>
    </subject>
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