Dr. Hames asks about staffing levels, recruitment methods (internal/external agencies), agency names, and costs for the Department of Health and related agencies from 2001-2006. The Department provides some headcount data but claims inability to provide details on recruitment methods and costs due to data storage limitations and file destruction policies.

AnsweredQoN 2466Legislative Assembly
Asked
20 June 2007
Portfolio
Health

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(a) for the following years -
(i) 2001-2002;
(ii) 2002-2003;
(iii) 2003-2004;
(iv) 2004-2005; and
(v) 2005-2006,
how many staff were recruited to each department or agency in each of the following categories -
(A) Senior Executive Service; and
(B) Levels 1-8;
(b) of the above staff -
(i) how many were recruited internally; and
(ii) how any were recruited through external agencies;
(c) what are the names of the external agencies used; and
(d) what was the cost of using external agencies for each of the above years?

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Answered
14 August 2007
Responded by
Minister for Health
Response time
55 days
a)
2001-2002
2002-2003
2003-2004
20004-2005
2005-2006
Senior Executive Service
4
8
7
Nil
3
PSA Levels 1-8
127
193
207
146
173
Notes:
1.
Data is the number of persons recruited (head count) for each financial year.
2.
Data includes persons recruited to the Department of Health, the Drug and Alcohol Office and the Office of Health Review.
3.
Only Public Sector Award (PSA) employees are included.
4.
Employees who were already employed at the SES level have not been counted if they obtained subsequent SES level contracts during the financial years specified.
(b) - (d) This information is not able to be sourced as it is not stored on centralised Department of Health information electronic systems, and selection files are destroyed after 12 months in keeping with selection file archiving requirements.
The Department of Health sources agency staff using the State Government's Common Use Agreement.
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