CAA Funding Alternatives - Consultation
Correspondence
- Letter from the AIA - 13 Oct 2010
- CAA response to AIA letter - 19 Oct 2010
- Email from BARNZ and CAA response - 15 Oct 2010
Other Emails
From Dr Brian Spackman, 07 Nov 2010
You state in your reply to correspondence from AIA that the expected funding requirement for the CAA Medical Unit will be $ 2.2m per annum for the next few years.
I understand that there are 2 full-time doctors employed and, I think, 5 administrative staff in the Medical Unit.
Could you please confirm these numbers and advise a total salary cost for the Medical Unit staffing.
If we then take the salary costs away from the $ 2.2m expenditure, what would be the main items involved in other expenditure by the Unit and does this include legal expenditure for advice or court proceedings?
CAA Response, 12 Nov 2010
The medical unit has a staff complement of 3 doctors, 6 licensing advisers and 1 executive officer.
The costs of the Medical Unit reflected in the Funding Review consultation documents were estimated as the same proportion of estimated CAA costs as the Medical Unit costs were to total CAA costs in the 2008/9 year. This included the salary cost of the Medical Unit together with overheads.
Specifically, total personnel and training costs represent 51% of medical unit costs, other direct costs 4% and CAA allocated overhead costs 45%. The medical unit is not charged directly with legal costs, but it is, in common with all of the operational costs centres within CAA, allocated a proportion of the costs of the legal unit as overhead.