Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

asked the Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs and Workplace Relations and Minister representing the Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth, upon notice, on 1 August 2011:

In regard to the department and all agencies within the Minister's portfolio, can a breakdown, by program, of spending be provided for the 2010/11 financial year in relation to the total portfolio expenditure on:

(a) advertising;

(b) travel;

(c) hospitality and entertainment;

(d) information and communications technology;

(e) consultancies;

(f) education or training for staff;

(g) external accounting;   

(h) external auditing;

(i) external legal; and

(j) memberships or grants paid to affiliate organisations.

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

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

A breakdown of expenditure, by individual program, is unable to be provided. Resourcing for these activities are not allocated, or recorded in the financial management systems, on an individual program basis.