Mitch Fifield (Victoria, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

As I have indicated, the Commonwealth is currently working through the review of the national partnership, with the states, and will be seeking to reduce the regulatory burden on the sector. It is true that the implementation of the national quality framework has led to an increase in costs for parents and the Australian taxpayer. This was an expected impact of the changes introduced by Labor and the state and territory governments at the time and was confirmed by modelling undertaken by Access Economics in 2009.

Insofar as the current review has any findings on the impact of the national quality framework on fees, that will be addressed when the review I referred to in my previous answer is finalised and the results released after Commonwealth and state ministers have considered the review later this year.