❓ A Member of Parliament questions the impact of a public sector recruitment freeze on grant-funded agricultural research projects, specifically regarding the ability of recipients to hire staff. The government responds that existing staff were reassigned and exemptions granted to fill externally funded positions.
AnsweredQoN 5457Legislative Assembly
QuestionView source ↗
I refer to the current public sector recruitment freeze and
its impact upon grant funding recipients’ ability to use said funding to hire
staff for the Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia (DAFWA) -managed research projects, and I ask: (a) how many individual grant-funded projects are
unable to hire staff to fill designated roles because of the recruitment freeze; (b) what is the dollar value of unspent funding on
each individual project; (c) how many total full time equivalent positions
are left unfilled as a result of the recruitment freeze; and (d) why has the State Government not made an
exception to the hiring freeze to allow for unspent grant funding to be spent
and research projects to proceed?
its impact upon grant funding recipients’ ability to use said funding to hire
staff for the Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia (DAFWA) -managed research projects, and I ask: (a) how many individual grant-funded projects are
unable to hire staff to fill designated roles because of the recruitment freeze; (b) what is the dollar value of unspent funding on
each individual project; (c) how many total full time equivalent positions
are left unfilled as a result of the recruitment freeze; and (d) why has the State Government not made an
exception to the hiring freeze to allow for unspent grant funding to be spent
and research projects to proceed?
AnswerView source ↗
Answered
16 June 2016
Responded by
Minister for Agriculture and Food
Response time
36 days
(a) – (d) To ensure that externally funded projects were not impacted by the freeze DAFWA re-assigned existing staff to meet contractual obligations. DAFWA was also granted an exemption to fill 34 positions funded from external sources.
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