❓ WA Parliamentary Question on Notice regarding the Department of Health's expenditure on private consultants and public relations firms from 2008-2012. The response provides figures for expenditure, lists top companies and individuals paid, and details related to public relations spending.
AnsweredQoN 8731Legislative Assembly
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I refer to the Department of Health's use of private consultants and ask, for each financial year from 2008–2009 to 2011–2012 inclusive, can a breakdown be provided of the following:
(a) the total expenditure received by the Department on private consultants;
(b) the top ten highest paid companies in receipt of private consultant contracts with the Department;
(c) the top ten highest paid individual consultants in receipt of contracts with the Department;
(d) the number of Department employees who are or who have also been employed by companies that the Department has used;
(e) how many Department employees who are or who have also been employed as private consultants by the Department;
(f) details of probity checks undertaken on all employees who are or who have also been employed as private consultants by the Department, or who work for companies that the Department has employed; and
(i) if not available, why not; and
(ii) if so, will the government make public the findings of these probity checks;
(g) the amount the Department spent in total on private public relations and communications firms;
(h) the total recurrent cost of the Department's own public relations and communications staff;
(i) the average hourly rate currently paid to the Department's own public relations and communications staff; and
(j) the average hourly rate the Department is currently paying to external private public relations and communications companies for their services?
(a) the total expenditure received by the Department on private consultants;
(b) the top ten highest paid companies in receipt of private consultant contracts with the Department;
(c) the top ten highest paid individual consultants in receipt of contracts with the Department;
(d) the number of Department employees who are or who have also been employed by companies that the Department has used;
(e) how many Department employees who are or who have also been employed as private consultants by the Department;
(f) details of probity checks undertaken on all employees who are or who have also been employed as private consultants by the Department, or who work for companies that the Department has employed; and
(i) if not available, why not; and
(ii) if so, will the government make public the findings of these probity checks;
(g) the amount the Department spent in total on private public relations and communications firms;
(h) the total recurrent cost of the Department's own public relations and communications staff;
(i) the average hourly rate currently paid to the Department's own public relations and communications staff; and
(j) the average hourly rate the Department is currently paying to external private public relations and communications companies for their services?
AnswerView source ↗
Answered
6 November 2012
Responded by
Minister for Health
Response time
41 days
(a)
2008/2009 - $9,869,547
2009/2010 - $9,322,350
2010/2011 - $4,254,179
2011/2012 - $6,833,374
(b)
2008/2009
Cary Consulting Pty Ltd / Appian Group Pty Ltd
Aurora Projects Pty Ltd
PricewaterhouseCoopers Public Sector Services Pty Ltd
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Prognosis Consulting Pty Ltd
Project Directors Australia Pty Ltd
Leman Nominees
Kossack Investments Pty Ltd
LECG Ltd
Silver Thomas Hanley Architects Pty Ltd
2009/2010
Cary Consulting Pty Ltd / Appian Group Pty Ltd
Aurora Projects Pty Ltd
Prognosis Consulting Pty Ltd
KPMG
Project Directors Australia Pty Ltd
PricewaterhouseCoopers
SG2 International Ltd
Ove Arup Pty Ltd
Allen Consulting Pty Ltd
PricewaterhouseCoopers Public Sector Services Pty Ltd
2010/2011
Aurora Projects Pty Ltd
Prognosis Consulting Pty Ltd
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
Paxon Consulting Group Pty Ltd
Cary Consulting Pty Ltd/Appian Group Pty Ltd
PricewaterhouseCoopers
MBMPL Pty Ltd
HardyGroup International Pty Limited
University of Melbourne
Ferrier Hodgson
2011/2012
Donald Cant Watts Corke WA Pty Ltd
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Paxon Consulting Group Pty Ltd
Donald Cant Watts Corke (Strategic Planning) Pty Ltd
Aurora Projects Pty Ltd
Prognosis Consulting Pty Ltd
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
Price Consulting Group Pty Ltd
The King's Fund
Ernst & Young
(c)
2008/2009
Terry Simpson
Stoneham & Associates (Melissa Stoneham)
2009/2010
Gregory Louis Joyce
Terry Simpson
2010/2011
Bryant Allan Rigbye Stokes
Richard Graeme Larkins
2011/2012
Bryant Allan Rigbye Stokes
Sandav Consultants (Arthur Gordon Davies)
The information in this response has been compiled on the basis of:
· Consultancy Reports for Minister of Health for the period between 1 July 2008 and 30 June 2012.
· In accordance with the Premier's Circular 2005/08, a consultant is any person engaged on a fee-for-service basis to provide strategic (management) advice for Government to act on. It does not include consultants providing functional advice for agencies to act on such as reviews of management audits, tender assessments, engineering services, training programs, printing, computer development and support services, actuarial services, publicity and promotional programs, project management services, valuations, accounting services, customer surveys and bench marking.
· Sole traders are taxed as individuals and pay income tax at personal tax rates. Thus, any consultant operating as a sole trader is considered to be an "individual consultant".
(d) This information cannot be provided. There is no database which holds information in relation to companies employing, or who have previously employed, WA Health staff.
(e) This information cannot be provided. There is no database which holds information in relation to private consultants employing, or who have previously employed, WA Health staff.
(f) This information cannot be provided. There is no central record of probity checks undertaken during the employment process.
(i) Information on individual employment with consultants is not held so no record of probity checks is maintained.
(ii) Not applicable.
(g)
2008/2009 - $345,731
2009/2010 - $468,806
2010/2011 - $228,925
2011/2012 - $282,020
(h)
2008/2009* - $3,293,259
2009/2010* - $3,487,581
2010/2011 - $4,141,288
2011/2012 - $4,694,491
*Every effort has been made to include all public relations staff costs from relevant cost centres in the Department of Health, hospitals, and Area Health Services. However, due to cost centre structures and periodic re?alignments of function, comparisons between years have been impacted.
(i) $44.84.
(j) $137.50.
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2008/2009 - $9,869,547
2009/2010 - $9,322,350
2010/2011 - $4,254,179
2011/2012 - $6,833,374
(b)
2008/2009
Cary Consulting Pty Ltd / Appian Group Pty Ltd
Aurora Projects Pty Ltd
PricewaterhouseCoopers Public Sector Services Pty Ltd
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Prognosis Consulting Pty Ltd
Project Directors Australia Pty Ltd
Leman Nominees
Kossack Investments Pty Ltd
LECG Ltd
Silver Thomas Hanley Architects Pty Ltd
2009/2010
Cary Consulting Pty Ltd / Appian Group Pty Ltd
Aurora Projects Pty Ltd
Prognosis Consulting Pty Ltd
KPMG
Project Directors Australia Pty Ltd
PricewaterhouseCoopers
SG2 International Ltd
Ove Arup Pty Ltd
Allen Consulting Pty Ltd
PricewaterhouseCoopers Public Sector Services Pty Ltd
2010/2011
Aurora Projects Pty Ltd
Prognosis Consulting Pty Ltd
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
Paxon Consulting Group Pty Ltd
Cary Consulting Pty Ltd/Appian Group Pty Ltd
PricewaterhouseCoopers
MBMPL Pty Ltd
HardyGroup International Pty Limited
University of Melbourne
Ferrier Hodgson
2011/2012
Donald Cant Watts Corke WA Pty Ltd
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Paxon Consulting Group Pty Ltd
Donald Cant Watts Corke (Strategic Planning) Pty Ltd
Aurora Projects Pty Ltd
Prognosis Consulting Pty Ltd
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
Price Consulting Group Pty Ltd
The King's Fund
Ernst & Young
(c)
2008/2009
Terry Simpson
Stoneham & Associates (Melissa Stoneham)
2009/2010
Gregory Louis Joyce
Terry Simpson
2010/2011
Bryant Allan Rigbye Stokes
Richard Graeme Larkins
2011/2012
Bryant Allan Rigbye Stokes
Sandav Consultants (Arthur Gordon Davies)
The information in this response has been compiled on the basis of:
· Consultancy Reports for Minister of Health for the period between 1 July 2008 and 30 June 2012.
· In accordance with the Premier's Circular 2005/08, a consultant is any person engaged on a fee-for-service basis to provide strategic (management) advice for Government to act on. It does not include consultants providing functional advice for agencies to act on such as reviews of management audits, tender assessments, engineering services, training programs, printing, computer development and support services, actuarial services, publicity and promotional programs, project management services, valuations, accounting services, customer surveys and bench marking.
· Sole traders are taxed as individuals and pay income tax at personal tax rates. Thus, any consultant operating as a sole trader is considered to be an "individual consultant".
(d) This information cannot be provided. There is no database which holds information in relation to companies employing, or who have previously employed, WA Health staff.
(e) This information cannot be provided. There is no database which holds information in relation to private consultants employing, or who have previously employed, WA Health staff.
(f) This information cannot be provided. There is no central record of probity checks undertaken during the employment process.
(i) Information on individual employment with consultants is not held so no record of probity checks is maintained.
(ii) Not applicable.
(g)
2008/2009 - $345,731
2009/2010 - $468,806
2010/2011 - $228,925
2011/2012 - $282,020
(h)
2008/2009* - $3,293,259
2009/2010* - $3,487,581
2010/2011 - $4,141,288
2011/2012 - $4,694,491
*Every effort has been made to include all public relations staff costs from relevant cost centres in the Department of Health, hospitals, and Area Health Services. However, due to cost centre structures and periodic re?alignments of function, comparisons between years have been impacted.
(i) $44.84.
(j) $137.50.
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