Craig Liz; Tolley AnneDr LIZ CRAIG (Labour): Thank you Madam Chair. I'd like to talk a little bit more about new section 134A in clause 29 which talks about the health workforce data because what is a requirement in the bill is that the responsible authority provides the Director-General of Health with information about their health practitioners. So there was the provision which is often collected already by many of these responsible authorities—I'm thinking about date of birth and where a person works and also their hours of work. As a select committee we also recommended that other aspects including ethnicity and gender also be routinely collected. Many of the responsible authorities actually already collect a lot of this data. Many of us who are familiar with filling out our annual practising certificates are familiar with providing information on how many hours we worked in what specialty who our employer was our age etc. But what this will do is it will ensure greater consistency across the responsible authorities so that we have very similar information for our doctors for our nurses and for our allied health professionals and so we can look from a planning perspective across that wider spectrum of professions and have a real sense of where our workforce is. But also within each of those responsible authorities or each of those professions we can look through and see where our workforce is spread. So for example if we're thinking about general practitioners we can look across and see what the average age of our GPs is and also where they're practising because are we thinking about workforce development in our rural areas and also being able to predict if we've got an aging workforce how we might need to be able to think about our training programmes and bringing that next generation of workforce through. The other thing within each of those professions is that we were asking that we would look at gender and ethnicity because I think if we're thinking about how we deliver culturally appropriate services we need to know what health practitioners we've got in terms of being able deliver those services for workforce planning and also for gender and thinking about gender equity in terms of many of our professions. The other aspect is also thinking about—so for example within medical practitioners—the levels of specialisation. I know in my own time working with child health professionals there were a lot of concerns that we only had one or two paediatric pathologists who could look at that very particular skill mix—in thinking about succession planning. So I think it's very very important that the responsible authorities are available to provide this information—CHAIRPERSON (Hon Anne Tolley): I'm sorry to interrupt the member but the time has come for us to report progress. House resumed. The Chairperson reported the Local Government Regulatory Systems Amendment Bill without amendment the Local Electoral Matters Bill without amendment the Commerce (Criminalisation of Cartels) Amendment Bill with amendment the Financial Services Legislation Amendment Bill with amendment the Accident Compensation Amendment Bill with amendment and progress on the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Amendment Bill. Report adopted. The House adjourned at 9.57 p.m.