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❓ Hon Adele Farina asks about funding allocation for student growth in the South West region, but the Minister clarifies that the funding is for indexation, not additional students, and allocations are not yet finalized.

AnsweredQoN 497Legislative Council

Asked

31 October 2013

Member

Hon Adele Farina

Portfolio

Education

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I refer to Budget Paper No. 2, Volume 1 at page 272 "Spending Changes", line item, "Growth in Student Numbers – 2016-17 Indexation", and ask: (a) how many of these additional students are expected to be enrolled in schools in the South West region (electoral region); (b) for each school in the South West region (electoral region) how many additional students are expected to be enrolled based on this calculation and what is the percentage increase on current enrolment; (c) of the $91,100,000 budgeted for 2016-17, which schools in the South West region (electoral region) will receive a portion of this money; and (d) for each of the schools identified in (b), how much funding will be available to the school?

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Answered

5 December 2013

Responded by

Minister for Education

Response time

35 days

The line item "Growth in Student Numbers - 2016-17 Indexation" provides additional indexation funding for schools in 2016-17 associated with items such as wages growth for teachers and other school staff and utilities cost growth. There are no additional students associated with this line item.
(a)-(b) Not applicable. There are no additional students associated with this funding line item.
(c)-(d) Not applicable. School allocations for 2016-17 are not yet finalised.

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