❓ Question seeks details on Tourism WA's staffing, consultancy spending, and funding of tourism-related roles in other departments. The answer provides a breakdown of employee numbers, locations, and refers to a public report for consultancy spending.
AnsweredQoN 3045Legislative Assembly
QuestionView source ↗
(1) As at present, what is the total number of people employed by Tourism Western Australia through the Department of Jobs, Tourism, Science and Innovation, and: (a) what number of each public sector classification level and each Senior Executive Service band were employed; (b) what number of these were employed in each of the service divisions: (i) Marketing; (ii) Events; (iii) Destination Development; (iv) Corporate and Business Services; (v) Finance; and (vi) Corporate Communications; and (c) Where are each of these located? (2) How much money in total was spent by the Department of Jobs, Tourism, Science and Innovation on tourism-related consultancy during the last twelve months before the date of the question and what was the breakdown of expenditure on consultancy? (3) Does the Department fund government employees in tourism-related roles in any other department, authority or organisation and if so, where are they located and what public service band/level are they?
AnswerView source ↗
Answered
12 June 2018
Responded by
Minister for Tourism
Response time
9 days
As at 8 May 2018:
(1) 97
(a)
Description
Employee Count
Level 3
15
Level 4
10
Level 5
21
Level 6
19
Level 7
14
Level 8
9
Level 9
1
Class 1
3
Overseas
5
Total
97
(b) (i) Marketing, 40
(ii) Events, 15
(iii) Destination Development, 18
(iv) Corporate and Business Services, 18
(v) Finance, 3
(vi) Corporate Communications, 3
(c) All positions are based in Perth except five Marketing employees based overseas: China (three); Japan (one); and Indonesia (one).
(2) Engagements of consultants are captured in the “Report on Consultants Engaged by Government” tabled regularly in each House of Parliament.
(3) Yes. One x Australian Public Service (APS) band 4 and one x APS band 3 employed by Tourism Australia, based in Singapore, on secondment to Tourism Western Australia
(1) 97
(a)
Description
Employee Count
Level 3
15
Level 4
10
Level 5
21
Level 6
19
Level 7
14
Level 8
9
Level 9
1
Class 1
3
Overseas
5
Total
97
(b) (i) Marketing, 40
(ii) Events, 15
(iii) Destination Development, 18
(iv) Corporate and Business Services, 18
(v) Finance, 3
(vi) Corporate Communications, 3
(c) All positions are based in Perth except five Marketing employees based overseas: China (three); Japan (one); and Indonesia (one).
(2) Engagements of consultants are captured in the “Report on Consultants Engaged by Government” tabled regularly in each House of Parliament.
(3) Yes. One x Australian Public Service (APS) band 4 and one x APS band 3 employed by Tourism Australia, based in Singapore, on secondment to Tourism Western Australia
Explore WA Government Data
Search the full archive in the free dashboard, or query programmatically via API.
Explore more
Government Gazette
Appointments, regulatory notices, planning changes.
Hansard
Debates, questions, speeches and sentiment.
Tabled Papers
Reports and documents tabled in Parliament.
Committees
Committee profiles and recent reports.
Regulations
Subsidiary legislation with filters and summaries.
Bills
Proposed laws and parliamentary progress.
Acts
Current WA legislation and summaries.
Explanatory Memoranda
Bills with EMs (text/PDF) available.
Members
MP profiles, party breakdown and rankings.
Pollie Rankings
Data-driven rankings across 19 categories.
Amendment Chains
Track how schemes and regulations evolve over time.