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❓ Question regarding administrative support changes to the State Records Office (SRO) after its move into a directorate of the State Library. The response indicates no formal review has been conducted to assess the benefits of the change.

AnsweredQoN 2789Legislative Assembly

Asked

14 March 2018

Member

Mr A. Krsticevic

Portfolio

Culture and the Arts

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I refer to the comments made by the Director General of the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries during Estimates on 19 September 2017, that the move of the State Records Office (SRO) into a directorate of the State Library will provide additional administrative support to the SRO and ask: (a) what additional administrative services or support are now provided to the SRO; (b) why was this administrative support not previously available; (c) what advantages to the State and/or SRO have been identified and documented since the administrative change; and (d) how will these benefits be documented, measured and reported going forward?

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Answered

9 May 2018

Responded by

Minister for Culture and the Arts

Response time

9 days

(a) Administrative services and support previously supplied by the former Department of Culture and the Arts are now provided by the State Library of Western Australia (SLWA), support includes: human resources, financial administration, internal audit, marketing and communications, staff training, administration of responses to Ministerials and Parliamentary Questions and staff have access to combined staff meetings and executive meetings.
(b) These services and support were previously provided by the former Department of Culture and the Arts.
(c) Nil, no formal review of administrative changes has been carried out.
(d) Not applicable

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