Ms CARNEY - 2005-05-05
Funding for health research has been cut in this budget by $300 000. In your speech about last year’s budget, you said that the Menzies School of Health Research, the CRC for Aboriginal Health and the Health Gains Unit had made:
Have they stopped making valuable contributions? If not, why has their funding been cut?
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, by way of general advice to the member, these types of matters can be better dealt with in Estimates in detail. However, I can give you the information regarding this budget item. The 2004-05 estimate for health research is $4.7m. The 2005-06 estimate is $4.4m. The variation apparent in the budget papers is 0.3% or $300 000. There is no reduction in health research, as those figures might be telling you.
The difference is largely a grant to the Menzies School of Health, the output for which was formerly calculated with depreciation costs. However, as no assets are attributable to health research, no depreciation charge is made in the health research output so it is simply an administrative treatment of the figures; it is not a reduction.
- … a valuable contribution to the evidence base of our health policies and services.
Have they stopped making valuable contributions? If not, why has their funding been cut?
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, by way of general advice to the member, these types of matters can be better dealt with in Estimates in detail. However, I can give you the information regarding this budget item. The 2004-05 estimate for health research is $4.7m. The 2005-06 estimate is $4.4m. The variation apparent in the budget papers is 0.3% or $300 000. There is no reduction in health research, as those figures might be telling you.
The difference is largely a grant to the Menzies School of Health, the output for which was formerly calculated with depreciation costs. However, as no assets are attributable to health research, no depreciation charge is made in the health research output so it is simply an administrative treatment of the figures; it is not a reduction.
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