A WA parliamentary question regarding the abolition of the Department of Culture and the Arts’ Short Film Marketing and Self-funded Low Budget Feature Marketing Panel, inquiring about funding, decision-making, and cost savings.

AnsweredQoN 3083Legislative Assembly
Asked
25 May 2010
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Culture and the Arts

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In relation to the Premier’s announcement that he has abolished the Department of Culture and the Arts’ Short Film Marketing and Self-funded Low Budget Feature Marketing Panel, I ask:
(a) what is the budgeted amount of funding this committee was supposed to disperse or advise on in 2009–2010;
(b) how much funding was dispersed;
(c) who will now be making the decisions previously made by this committee;
(d) what is the budgeted amount of funding for equivalent grants previously dispersed or advised on in the 2010–2011 budget; and
(e) what are the cost savings from abolishing this committee and where have those savings been allocated?

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Answered
22 June 2010
Responded by
Minister for Culture and the Arts
Response time
28 days
(a) $25 000.
(b) $21 088 has been committed.
(c) Only ScreenWest Officers sit on the Short Film and Self-funded Low Budget Feature Marketing Assessment Panels.
(d) The Screenwest internal operational 2010-11 budget is still being finalised.
(e) Approximately $840. Savings have been allocated across the entire ScreenWest budget.
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