With reference to the department and each agency in the portfolio, what were the city or town location, number of employees and annual salary values of all corporate services as at 30 June 1996 and 30 June 2000, for the following functional areas: (a) human resources; (b) property and office services; (c) financial and accounting services; (d) fleet management; (e) occupational health and safety; (f) workplace and industrial relations; (g) parliamentary communications; (h) payroll; (i) personnel services; (j) printing and photo copying; (k) auditing; (l) executive services; (m) legal and fraud; and any other corporate services (please specify).

Department of Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business

The Department of Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business was formed in October 1998 through the merging of the former Department of Workplace Relations and Small Business and the employment elements of the former Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs. I am advised by my department that the information on corporate services staffing numbers and annual salary values as at 30 June 1996 would be too resource intensive to obtain and would not be comparable due to the abovementioned machinery of government change.

With regard to the information sought on corporate services functions as at 30 June 2000, my department has advised that it is unable to provide information broken down into the specific functional areas identified; those functions are, however, included in the information shown in the attached table. The table does not include IT facilities and applications.

Table: Approximate staffing numbers and annual salary values for corporate services functions at 30 June 2000

Notes:

(1) Salary figures exclude accrual costs (long service leave, superannuation)

Office of the Employment Advocate

As at 30 June 1996, Nil.

As at 30 June 2000:

Location: Sydney,

Staff: 10

Salary: $436 909

(a) $26 214

(b) $26 214

(c) $78 630

(d) $5242

(e) $5242

(f) $13 105

(g) $2621

(h) $0

(i) $0

(j) $13 105

(k) $26 210

(l) $52 420

(m) $13 105

(n) other - IT $174 801

Australian Industrial Registry

- In providing the figures the following should also be noted:

- the registry has never had any dedicated `parliamentary communications' resource;

- printing and photocopying has been outsourced;

- the registry has never had an internal audit resource, simply an Audit Committee which meets 2-3 times a year or as necessary; and

- the registry does not have any dedicated legal and fraud resources; legal requirements are met through outsourced arrangements, primarily to the Australian Government Solicitor.

- Because of the limited numbers, the crossover of functionality, transfer of functions to other areas and reorganisation (including shift to team structures and changes in skills profiles) that have taken place between 1996 and 2000, it has also been necessary to combine several of the components to provide meaningful salary figures.

Human Resources Salaries

Notes:

(1) The Human Resources salary figures above are total salary figures (that is they include the personnel and some payroll services other than those payroll services that are outsourced) across the Australian Industrial Registry for employees with direct human resources responsibilities, which include:

- strategic/advisory/policy;

- occupational health and safety;

- workplace and industrial relations;

- personnel services;

- payroll;

- staff development and training (1 person in Melbourne and 1 person in Sydney);

- workplace diversity/equal employment opportunity;

- recruitment; and

- human resource management systems management/maintenance.

(2) The salary figures for personnel/payroll services are included in the Human Resources figures above but can also be identified separately - functions include:

- payroll;

- conditions of service;

- compensation;

- superannuation; and

- recruitment.

Executive Corporate Services Salaries

Note:

(1)Executive Corporate Services comprised an SES Band 1 heading up the Corporate Services Branch (comprising the Human Resources, Resources Management and Information Technology Sections) and an APS 2 assistant position. Both positions were abolished in July 1999.

Resources Management Salaries

Notes:

(1) As at 30 June 1996 responsibilities included:

- asset management;

- fleet management;

- purchasing;

- project management;

- building maintenance/OH & S issues;

- records management; and

- management of property leases.

(2) As at 30 June 1996 responsibilities included:

- external and internal financial reporting;

- budget preparation;

- advice on accounting, budgetary and financial matters;

- travel;

- system development and management; and

- accounts payable and receivable.

As at 30 June 2000 responsibilities were changed to reflect a reorganisation of the previous Property and Services and Finance Sections. Revised responsibilities included the following.

(3) Property and Services:

- asset management;

- fleet management;

- purchasing;

- project management;

- building maintenance/OH & S issues;

- records management;

- travel;

- system development and management; and

- accounts payable and receivable.

(4) Finance (now Accounting Services):

- external and internal financial reporting;

- budget preparation;

- advice on accounting and budgetary matters; and

- management of property leases.

Comcare

Given that Comcare is a small agency, and the integrated nature of the functions identified, Comcare is unable to disaggregate its information into all the categories given in a way which would give any meaningful comparison over time. Consequently, the information has been grouped into broader functional categories.

Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency

The agency is unable to disaggregate the number of employees and annual salary values of corporate services to the level of the individual functions specified in the question. Several of the functions are small components of cost centres and it is not considered cost beneficial to record employee time and cost to that level of detail.

(i) As at 30 June 1996 for functional areas (a)-(m) the following details are applicable.

Location - Sydney

Number of staff - 3

Annual salary values - $125 524

(ii) As at 30 June 2000 for functional areas (a)-(m) the following details are applicable.

Location - Sydney

Number of staff - 3

Annual salary values - $147 988

National Occupational Health and Safety Commission

The National Occupational Health and Safety Commission is unable to disaggregate the number of employees and annual salary values of corporate services to the level of the individual functions specified in the question. Several of the functions are small components of cost centres and it is not considered cost beneficial to record employee time and cost to that level of detail. The following table provides information disaggregated to the greatest practical extent.

Many of the cost centres included in the following table also undertook functions in addition to those identified in the question. It has not been possible to separate the costs associated with these. As the extent and number of these additional functions varied substantially between 1996 and 2000, the data in the following table are not comparable between years.