House of Assembly - Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)
2016-09-28 Daily Xml

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STEM Funding

Mr GRIFFITHS (Goyder) (14:45): My question is to the Minister for Education and Child Development. Can the minister confirm that all STEM funding announcements for individual schools coming from the 2016-17 budget remain committed to those schools, and is the Moonta Area School to still receive $3.5 million?

The Hon. S.E. CLOSE (Port Adelaide—Minister for Education and Child Development, Minister for Higher Education and Skills) (14:45): I know that we are not supposed to ask questions, but I would love to know whether there is a problem with the Moonta Area School that I am unaware of—but, yes, the STEM project has an allocation for each of the schools, and that's publicly available on the website. Clearly, as part of that project, there are a number of expenses that relate to the delivery of that project, but they will get a finalised project that has taken that amount of money to be spent on it.