Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator's question:

Cost reductions under the Strategic Reform Program (SRP) are based on annual budgets. In 2010-11, the cost reductions target for the Department and the Defence Materiel Organisation is $1016 million.

SRP savings are tracked, reported and managed on a stream-by-stream basis; they are not broken up by sub-category of productivity, one-offs or other descriptors. Defence will publish the stream cost reductions achieved for the full financial year in the Defence Annual Report 2010-11which is expected to be released in late 2011.