Thank you, Madam Chair. Through the annual business planning process, primarily through the forced growth, departments make submissions for forced growth to their base funding if they can demonstrate through factual information that they’re actually incurring these costs and they have no other options to mitigate those costs. In some cases the costs of the item which they are looking for is volatile – sometimes it goes up; sometimes it goes down – and in many cases departments have abilities to mitigate the impact of cost increases. It’s only when they can’t mitigate and they can substantiate the request through that one time of the year, which is the business planning process, that they’re allotted forced growth. If they can’t, and otherwise they get caught by surprise throughout the year for unexpected circumstances which they could not have anticipated or they could not mitigate, then they come through the supplementary process. Thank you.
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Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
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