Senate Education and Employment Legislation Committee, , 36:38 to 39:04
Examination of why employee costs exceeded the original budget by a significant margin despite a decrease in overall departmental headcount.
Topics: Public service staffing, Government spending
Speakers: Ben Sladic, Senator Paul Scarr, Unknown Speaker
costs for the year What was the original budget
4674500?
Okay so that's a I mean that's a material overspend very material overspend maybe 30% what's 135 million dollars? What's the reason for the employee cost to exceed the budget?
It comes down to I think um and we updated this in in the budget documentation post that original budget the split between suppliers and employees was a quite a bit different to our actual expenses that we incurred and so um I think if you look at the um the the um the the split for um future financial years it's much closer to the actual that we realise I think we had more in suppliers than we're actually spending and less in employees so I think it's only slightly higher than what we actually spent the previous financial year. So that it was understated from a split level in the in the budget documentation compared to what we're actually spending so that was the main reason.
So my understanding is the and tell me if I'm wrong correct me please that it was an increase of $21 million on last year is that correct?
Yep I think that that sounds about correct.
certainly so it becks the question right the the budget's greater than it was last year or the actual is greater than it was last year but there are fewer staff so how do you explain that?