Question - Community sector

1. Can the Minister provide for any grant programs administered by the Community Service Directorate details of (a) name of the grant program and individual grants funded, (b) length of grants, (c) dollar amount of grants and (d) indexation applied to those grants (percentage per year, and formula applied); if no indexation applied, why not.
2. Can the Minister provide for any funding agreements (if different to grant programs) administered by the Community Services Directorate details of (a) name of the funding agreements (i.e. who to), (b) length of funding agreements, (c) dollar amount of funding agreements and (d) indexation applied to those funding agreements (percentage per year, and formula applied); if no indexation applied, why not.

(1) & (2) Information about grant programs and funding agreements between the Community Services Directorate and suppliers are available through the various years’ Annual Reports which can be found here (https://www.act.gov.au/open/community-services-directorate-annual-reports). 

Information is also available on the ACT Governments’ Contract Register here (https://www.procurement.act.gov.au/registers/contracts-register). 

Further information can be found on the Notifiable Invoices Register here (https://www.procurement.act.gov.au/registers/act-government-notifiable-invoices-register and https://www.data.act.gov.au/Government-and-Transparency/Notifiable-Invoices-Register/kzmf-7uhp/data). 

Indexation is a broad term which covers multiple indexation rates across different categories. The Community Services Directorate is advised of multiple indexation rates by Treasury each year and these are then applied to funding agreements as appropriate for budget purposes.