Question - Budget

1. Given that around $100 million of the Budget Review’s 55.7 percent increase in the ACT deficit stems from the ACT Government’s risky assumption that NSW and Victoria would not spend their full allocation of Commonwealth funding, how does the Government justify gambling with the ACT’s finances by relying on Commonwealth funding that was allocated to other jurisdictions.
2. What contingency plans, if any, did the Government put in place before the election to ensure financial stability if the funding allocated to other jurisdictions did not become available to the ACT.
3. Do the forward estimates in the Treasurer's Budget Update continue to assume the ACT will have access to funding notionally allocated to other jurisdictions.

Please see attached PDF for a copy of the answer to question on notice No 329.