Mark Arbib (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Social Housing and Homelessness) Share this | Hansard source

The Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable senator's question:

(1) (a) (b) and (c) The Department publishes details of all its contract arrangements including variations on the Austender website. The Department does not keep a central register on the number of variations or additional works undertaken on existing departmental reports and obtaining this information would consume a high level of resources. The Department is able to provide information that relates to any specific contract such as the response to question 2 below.

(2) The title of the report was Closing the Gap: Prime Minister’s Report 2010.

(a) Printing by Canprint, under contract number CN263388, totalled $10,186.00 inclusive of GST.

(b) Increase page numbers from original 36pp and cover to 72pp and cover.

(c) One variation.

(d) Increase page numbers from original 36 pp and cover to 72pp and cover.