Kevin Andrews (Menzies, Liberal Party, Minister for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

The Minister for Human Services has provided the following answer to the honourable member's question:

The department has 3,538 substantive Executive Level employees. Data would need to be manually extracted to provide this level of detail. This would be an unreasonable diversion of departmental resources.

The department provides a range of internal training programmes for Senior Executive Service Level department officials in areas such as Privacy and Secrecy provisions, Financial Management, Code of Conduct and Occupational Health and Safety provisions. The costs associated with the delivery of these internal programmes are not actively recorded. The total centrally recorded cost of Senior Executive Service Level external training during this period was $148,790.

The breakdown in cost for such externally provided training is as follows:

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