Question Without Notice No. 894 asked in the Legislative Council on 29 November 2017 by Hon Dr Steve Thomas
Parliament: 40 Session: 1
STATE FINANCES — CAPITAL WORKS EXPENDITURE
894. Hon Dr STEVE THOMAS to the minister representing the Treasurer:
What has been the annual general government expenditure on capital works as a percentage of general government expenditure in Western Australia in each financial year from 2001-02, or from the nearest available financial year to the end of the 2016-17 financial year as measured by, firstly, appropriations bills; and, secondly, general government purchases of non-financial assets?
Hon STEPHEN DAWSON replied:
I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. The answer provided is in tabular form and I seek leave to have the information incorporated into Hansard.
Leave granted.
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The following material was incorporated —
(1) The following table shows the ratio of Appropriation (Capital) Act 2 to the total of Appropriation (Recurrent) Act 1 and Appropriation (Capital) Act 2 for each year 2001-02 to 2016-17. It should be noted that appropriations represent a funding source for agency spending and that other funding sources (such as Commonwealth grants, fees and charges, and/or cash balances) collected or held by the agency may also contribute to expenditure. Some appropriations fund recurrent and other spending and financing activities by public corporations (i.e. not all appropriation funding supports spending by general government agencies).
(2) For the purpose of this response, total expenditure is assumed to mean the total of general government expenses and purchases of non-financial assets (also known in the State’s Budget Papers as the Asset Investment Program). The following table shows the ratio of general government Asset Investment Program spending to total expenditure (as defined above) for each year 2001-02 to 2016-17.