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  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
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      <name>Consumer and Business Services, Workplace Culture</name>
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          <heading>Consumer and Business Services, Workplace Culture</heading>
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        <name>The Hon. B.R. HOOD</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Consumer and Business Services, Workplace Culture</name>
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            <timeStamp time="2025-10-15T00:00:00+10:30" />In reply to <by role="member" id="7056" referenceid="8dfae82e584e4ef8b03b5e315458492b" uid="a2567926369a4726a8cb6afe1fad99ce">the Hon. B.R. HOOD </by>().13 May 2025).  </inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" uid="7f61a74e5968443ea80fe8d0b083dbe8" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Deputy Premier</name>
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            <name>Minister for Aboriginal Affairs</name>
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            <name>Deputy Premier</name>
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            <name>Attorney-General</name>
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            <name>Consumer and Business Services, Workplace Culture</name>
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            <by role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" uid="7f61a74e5968443ea80fe8d0b083dbe8">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Deputy Premier, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector, Special Minister of State):</by>  I have been advised that following the People Matter Employee Survey (PMES) conducted by the Office of the Commissioner for Public Sector Employment in 2024, public sector agencies were provided with their results and were asked to progress the implementation of agency-specific action plans to respond to issues identified in the survey. </inserted>
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          <inserted>A sector-wide engagement plan to drive improvement in priority focus areas is also being prepared which will complement the agency-specific action plans.</inserted>
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          <inserted>The Consumer and Business Services (CBS) PMES results are included in the results for the Attorney-General's Department, who are responsible for determining any appropriate actions in response to the survey results across all its business units, including CBS. Generally, the CBS survey results reflected the broader agency results.'</inserted>
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