Jan McLucas (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Ageing) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Scullion, we have some information for you on that. This is complex because the initial explanatory memorandum has been changed by the subsequent changes in the EM that was tabled today. The savings with the partner service pension age pension are $35.1 million in the initial explanatory memorandum. That will be much the same. I think there is a change of $1.2 million to $1.2 million projected savings there. There has been reference to a figure of $113 million. That figure refers to the DVA savings—that is, the PSP age and the separated measures—but they exclude the cross-portfolio offsets. We are simply looking at the savings in the Department of Veterans’ Affairs. The revised net saving overall is $28 million over four years. Is that enough information, Senator?