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:

(1)   Can a breakdown be provided of the number of staff and their location that administer each program.

(2)   How many regulations are associated with each program and for each program can the names of each regulation be provided.

(3)   Can a list be provided of all cross-portfolio programs within the portfolio and the departments and agencies involved.

(4)   Can a list be provided of all boards within the portfolio including for each board:

  (a)   the length of the term of appointment;

  (b)   the tenure of the appointment; and

  (c)   the names of the members on the board.

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:

(1) Resourcing for the management of programs, including ASL, administered on behalf of the Australian Government is not allocated, or recorded within financial management and human resource systems, on an administered program basis.

(2) A full listing of all regulations that have been made under each Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (EEWR) portfolio Act, and as published in the current Administrative Arrangement Orders (of 14 October 2010) is provided at Attachment A(available from the Senate Table Office). Each Act, and related regulations have been recorded against the most appropriate EEWR outcome as published in the 2011-12 Portfolio Budget Statements.

(3) There are currently no cross-portfolio programs managed by the Education, Employment and Workplace Relations portfolio.

There are programs that are appropriated either jointly with, or directly to, the Treasury portfolio. This is a result of the Federal Financial Relations appropriation framework that requires centralised Commonwealth arrangements for financial support paid to States and Territories. The relevant Specific Purpose Payments and National Partnership are detailed in the 2011-12 Budget Paper No. 3 – Part 2: Payments for Specific Purposes at:

http://www.budget.gov.au/2011-12/content/bp3/html/bp3_03_part_2a.htm

Payments related to Education are detailed at page 49, and those related to Skills and Workforce Development are at page 59, of that publication.

(4) Please see Attachment B ( available from the Senate Table Office).