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,

What is the 2010-11 expenditure for her portfolio, in total, and according to each program, for (a) advertising, (b) travel (including the breakdown of domestic and international business and economy classes), (c) information and communications technology, (d) consultancies, (e) education and training of staff, (f) external (i) accounting, (ii) auditing, and (iii) legal, services, and (g) memberships or grants paid to affiliate organisations.

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:

(a) to (g) The departmental expenditure by the portfolio program divisions for the year to 30 June 2011 is provided in Tables 1 - 12 below. The associated programs, consistent with those programs reported in the Portfolio Budget Statements, are indicated in the table. As the department's Financial System is not configured to record expenditure by individual programs the diversion of resources necessary to extract the details from the individual program areas cannot be justified.

Table 1. Advertising expenditure

Table 2. Domestic airfares expenditure

The expenditure below includes all domestic airfares, both business and economy classes. As the Department's Financial System is not configured to record travel expenditure by class the diversion of resources necessary to extract these details.The Department's travel provider has advised that approximately 28% of travel is business class. The business class percentage varies in the portfolio agencies.

Table 3. Domestic travel (excluding airfares) expenditure

Table 4. Overseas airfares expenditure

Table 5. Overseas travel (other than airfares) expenditure

Table 6. Information and Communications Technology expenditure

Table 7. Consultancies expenditure

Table 8. Education and training of staff expenditure

Table 9. External accounting expenditure

Table 10. External auditing expenditure

Table 11. External legal services expenditure

Table 12. Memberships paid to affiliate organisations expenditure