Jamie Briggs (Mayo, Liberal Party, Chairman of the Scrutiny of Government Waste Committee) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

asked the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, in writing, on 25 August 2011:

How many staff were employed by the Minister's department in the Senior Executive Service (ie, SES) on 1 July (a) 2008, and (b) 2011.

Greg Combet (Charlton, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

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

In its Annual Report, the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency provides SES staffing data as at 30 June of the relevant year.

The 2008 Annual Report for the Department of Climate Change states that SES staffing as at 30 June 2008 was 14.

The 2011 Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency Annual Report states that SES staffing as at 30 June 2011 was 58. This figure included all SES of the Department, including operative and inoperative staff, and non-SES employees acting in SES positions as at that date.