❓ A WA parliamentary question seeks detailed information on Drug and Alcohol Services FTE allocations, budget assumptions, and the impact of FTE caps and potential reductions on service delivery and equity targets. The Minister's response indicates data limitations prevent a specific answer for the Drug and Alcohol Office.
AnsweredQoN 989Legislative Assembly
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I refer to page 178 of the 2009–2010 Budget Papers and the
Drug and Alcohol Employees (FTE)
section:
(1) Can the Minister provide an employee category breakdown of the 2009–2010 budget target of 231?
(2) Will the Minister outline the budget assumption behind the full cost impact of adding an FTE in this section?
(3) Will the Minister outline the budget assumption behind the full or savings impact of removing an FTE in this section?
(4) Can the Minister provide the following information:
(a) the actual headcount derived from the approved FTE complement in the section in 2008–2009;
(b) the actual headcount derived from the approved FTE complement resulting from the 2009–2010 budgets in this section;
(c) the projected headcount derived from the approved FTE complement in this section across the forward estimates?
(5) Has the public service FTE cap announced by the Treasurer affected FTE numbers in this section?
(6) Can the Minister outline policy changes or changes in service delivery that are being adopted, and how they take account of the public service FTE cap?
(7) Which outcomes, services and performance indicators are affected by FTE constraints, and in what way?
(8) Can the Minister outline the projected impact of FTE reductions on public service equity targets within this section?
(9) What measures will be put in place to ensure that equity targets are not compromised?
(10) In offering voluntary redundancies for this section, has the Minister’s agency taken account of, or been required to take account of, the financial impact to the public sector as a whole of redundancies, resignations or retirements of public servants covered by earlier defined benefit superannuation compared to those receiving market-linked superannuation?
Drug and Alcohol Employees (FTE)
section:
(1) Can the Minister provide an employee category breakdown of the 2009–2010 budget target of 231?
(2) Will the Minister outline the budget assumption behind the full cost impact of adding an FTE in this section?
(3) Will the Minister outline the budget assumption behind the full or savings impact of removing an FTE in this section?
(4) Can the Minister provide the following information:
(a) the actual headcount derived from the approved FTE complement in the section in 2008–2009;
(b) the actual headcount derived from the approved FTE complement resulting from the 2009–2010 budgets in this section;
(c) the projected headcount derived from the approved FTE complement in this section across the forward estimates?
(5) Has the public service FTE cap announced by the Treasurer affected FTE numbers in this section?
(6) Can the Minister outline policy changes or changes in service delivery that are being adopted, and how they take account of the public service FTE cap?
(7) Which outcomes, services and performance indicators are affected by FTE constraints, and in what way?
(8) Can the Minister outline the projected impact of FTE reductions on public service equity targets within this section?
(9) What measures will be put in place to ensure that equity targets are not compromised?
(10) In offering voluntary redundancies for this section, has the Minister’s agency taken account of, or been required to take account of, the financial impact to the public sector as a whole of redundancies, resignations or retirements of public servants covered by earlier defined benefit superannuation compared to those receiving market-linked superannuation?
AnswerView source ↗
Answered
11 August 2009
Responded by
Minister for Mental Health
Response time
63 days
(1) - (10)
WA Health payroll and workforce systems do not categorise individual employees at the Service level. A high-level modeling exercise is undertaken on an annual basis to apportion whole-of-Health FTE across Services. Work is underway to map all positions to Services in order to automate this process and improve transparency. It should be noted that many positions do not align directly to a Service. For example, clinical staff may treat inpatients (Service 1) and undertake outpatient clinics (Service 6). Similarly, a significant portion of non-clinical staff are treated as overheads and allocated across numerous Services.
As a consequence of the above factors, WA Health is not able to answer the question specifically in relation to Drug and Alcohol Office employees but provided the Member a whole of Health answer at Estimates in the Legislative Assembly on 28 May 2009. See copy attached. [See tabled paper no]
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WA Health payroll and workforce systems do not categorise individual employees at the Service level. A high-level modeling exercise is undertaken on an annual basis to apportion whole-of-Health FTE across Services. Work is underway to map all positions to Services in order to automate this process and improve transparency. It should be noted that many positions do not align directly to a Service. For example, clinical staff may treat inpatients (Service 1) and undertake outpatient clinics (Service 6). Similarly, a significant portion of non-clinical staff are treated as overheads and allocated across numerous Services.
As a consequence of the above factors, WA Health is not able to answer the question specifically in relation to Drug and Alcohol Office employees but provided the Member a whole of Health answer at Estimates in the Legislative Assembly on 28 May 2009. See copy attached. [See tabled paper no]
Notice: This document is created or edited using unregistered or evaluation copy of rtLib valid for testing or development purposes only. To use it for productive or any other purposes please register it. You may purchase the license on
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