Attachment B: Specific purpose payments

This attachment provides accrual outcomes of Australian Government specific purpose payments to and through the States and direct to local government. This includes payments for current and capital purposes, and Australian Government advances (loans) to the States, including new advances, interest on advances and repayments by the States.

Tables 37 and 38 provide information on Australian Government specific purpose payments to and through the States, and direct to local government, respectively.

Table 37 presents specific purpose payments on a functional basis, and includes specific purpose payments for current and capital purposes. Payments are aggregated according to like purposes and are further divided into those paid to the States and those paid through the States to be passed on to local government and other bodies. Payments through the States are indicated in the table with an asterisk.

Australian Government advances (loans) to the States, including new advances, interest on advances and repayments by the States, are also detailed in Table 37. The majority of these advances were funded from borrowing made on behalf of the States under previous Australian Loan Council arrangements.

Table 38 presents information on Australian Government specific purpose payments paid direct to local government authorities for both current and capital purposes.

Table 37: Specific purpose payments to and through the States, repayments of advances, advances and interest payments, 2006-07 ($'000)

Table 37: Specific purpose payments to and through the States, repayments of advances, advances and interest payments, 2006-07 ($'000) (continued)

Table 37: Specific purpose payments to and through the States, repayments of advances, advances and interest payments, 2006-07 ($'000) (continued)

Table 37: Specific purpose payments to and through the States, repayments of advances, advances and interest payments, 2006-07 ($'000) (continued)

Table 37: Specific purpose payments to and through the States, repayments of advances, advances and interest payments, 2006-07 ($'000) (continued)

Table 37: Specific purpose payments to and through the States, repayments of advances, advances and interest payments, 2006-07 ($'000) (continued)

Table 37: Specific purpose payments to and through the States, repayments of advances, advances and interest payments, 2006-07 ($'000) (continued)

Table 37: Specific purpose payments to and through the States, repayments of advances, advances and interest payments, 2006-07 ($'000) (continued)

* Items so marked are classified as payments through the States.

1. The proposed payment of $600,000 to the Victorian Office of Public Prosecutions (OPP) to assist with the Cole Inquiry Task Force was not required by the OPP.
2. The proposed payment of $256,000 to Western Australia for the Illegal Foreign Fishing — Indigenous Rangers Trial has been paid, but has been reported elsewhere.
3. The Australian Health Care Agreements expire on 30 June 2008. Health care grants include payments to the States and Territories of $37.5 million in 2006-07 to improve care for older patients in public hospitals under the Council of Australian Governments Health Services package.
4. Includes payments of $163.6 million to the States and Territories under the Public Health Outcome Funding Agreements.
5. There was no expenditure for the Organ and Tissue donation programme in 2006-07. The 2006-07 funding allocation of $1.35 million for this programme will now be spent in 2008-09.
6. The Australian Government's funding to the States and Territories for the fifth Supported Accommodation Assistance Program Agreement over the period 2005-06 to 2009-10 includes funding for an Innovation and Investment Fund (IIF). The States and Territories also contribute to this Fund, a component of which is being administered as Commonwealth own-purpose expenditure until 2007-08 ($0.5 million in 2006-07 and $0.5 million in 2007-08). IIF payments to the States and Territories were $6.7 million in 2006-07. This table excludes IIF payments as follows: $615,000 to New South Wales, $1,948,000 to Victoria, $1,507,000 to Queensland, $838,000 to Western Australia, $216,000 to Tasmania and $250,000 to the Northern Territory (total $5,374,000).

Table 38: Specific purpose payments direct to local government authorities, 2006-07 ($'000)