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❓ Opposition asks the Minister for Education and Training to detail which projects had funding withdrawn to cover $69 million in election commitments. The Minister's answer provides a general explanation of budget repair and reprioritization without specific project details.

AnsweredQoN 2202Legislative Assembly

Asked

17 October 2017

Member

Mr S.K. L'Estrange

Portfolio

Education and Training

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Given that the total appropriation under the Internal Reallocation to Fund Election Commitments across 2017–2018 to 2020–2021 amounts to $69 million, can the Minister please outline what projects had money withdrawn to reallocate this $69 million to fund election commitments?

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Answered

21 November 2017

Responded by

Minister representing the Minister for Education and Training

Response time

9 days

The State Government needed to achieve two things with this budget. The first was to undertake significant budget repair as a consequence of the parlous state in which the previous government left the State’s finances. This Government had to identify savings to address that. There was a significant write-down in government revenue after the Pre-election Financial Projections Statement, and this Government had to address that as well. In addition, this Government did what it said it would do in the election campaign, which was to reprioritise some of the spending and pay for some of the election commitments out of Royalties for Regions, and spread some of the infrastructure commitments over five years.
The following funding adjustments contributed to the internal relocation:

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