Thank you, Madam Chair. The $300,000 reduction is to the Workplace Literacy Program. It does not affect the funding that would flow to the Literacy Council or community literacy programs. As Members know, we were tasked to find reductions throughout government and one of the areas we looked for was where the funding wasn't being used on a consistent basis, and what we found was in that program $300,000 was being lapsed consistently because businesses weren't coming to us with applications to use it. So we don't think that this will lead to a large impact, because it's money that wasn't being accessed by business. It was a program we had made available for business to access through application, but we weren't seeing the applications to use it all up. So this does not represent a decrease in funding to the Literacy Council.
Charles Dent on Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 24th, 2005. See this statement in context.
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 23rd, 2005
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