Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Health and Ageing) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

asked the Minister for Health and Ageing, in writing, on 25 August 2011:

For each program administered by her department, (a) what are the staffing numbers, by location, and (b) how many regulations are associated with each program.

Nicola Roxon (Gellibrand, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Health and Ageing) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The answer to the honourable member's question is as follows:

The staffing numbers by location and each program of the Department of Health and Ageing (The Department) for the period 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2011 are provided in Table 1 below. The associated programs are consistent with those programs reported in the Portfolio Budget Statements. As the Department's Financial and Human Resources Management Information System is not configured to separately identify staffing numbers by individual programs the diversion of resources necessary to extract the details from the individual program areas cannot be justified.

Table 1. Staffing numbers (FTE) (i) in each division

Full Time Equivalent (FTE)

Portfolio Strategies Division is also engaged in activities which are considered to be across the portfolio and not directly attributable to a particular program.

Regulatory Policy and Governance is also engaged in activities which are considered to be across the portfolio and not directly attributable to a particular program.

The Department administers 63 Acts and approximately 500 legislative instruments. Identifying what legislation and instruments are associated with each of the Department's programs is not practicable.