Scott Ryan (Victoria, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Small Business and Fair Competition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Minister for Trade and Competitiveness, upon notice, on 10 October 2012:

For each department and agency under the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997 and each Commonwealth authority under the Commonwealth Authorities and Companies Act 1997 within the Minister's portfolio: For each of the following items:

(a) licences;

(b) registrations;

(c) fee for services; and

(d) permits (and all other permission structures):

(1) How many are administered to the non-government sector.

(2) What are the associated fees with each item, and which sectors of the community are required to hold each.

(3) How often does each item require renewal.

(4) What fees have been paid for each item for the following financial years (or since the item was introduced since 2007-08):

(a) 2007-08;

(b) 2008-09;

(c) 2009-10;

(d) 2010-11;

(e) 2011-12; and

(f) 2012-13.

(5) How much total revenue is collected annually from each of the listed items.

Bob Carr (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

on behalf of the Minister for Trade and Competitiveness and myself, the answer to the honourable senator's question is as follows:

(1) (a) Not applicable to this department.

(b) Not applicable to this department.

(c) DFAT provides services (support for finance, human resource management and property) to the Reserve Bank of Australia and the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade under a Service Level Agreement (SLA). The SLA is designed to recover the costs to DFAT of delivering these services to non-DFAT staff at DFAT-managed posts. The fee is calculated on the basis of the percentage of time taken to deliver these services (salary and salary-related expenses) by DFAT locally-engaged staff (LES).

(d) Not applicable to this department.

(2) (a) Not applicable to this department.

(b) Not applicable to this department.

(c) DFAT provides services under an SLA to recover the costs to DFAT of delivering services to non-DFAT staff at DFAT-managed posts (see 1(c)).

(d) Not applicable to this department.

(3) (a) Not applicable to this department.

(b) Not applicable to this department.

(c) The current Service Level Agreement will expire on 30 June 2015.

(d) Not applicable to this department.

(4) (a) [Licences] Not applicable to this department.

(b) [Registrations] Not applicable to this department.

(c) [Fee for services]

(a) 2007-08: $15,329,732

(b) 2008-09: $14,354,332

(c) 2009-10: $14,192,882

(d) 2010-11: $18,230,208

(e) 2011-12: $25,137,384

(f) 2012-13: $2,519,132 as at 31 October 2012.

(d) [Permits] Not applicable to this department.

(5) (a) Not applicable to this department.

(b) Not applicable to this department.

(c) Total revenue is as noted at 4(c) above.

(d) Not applicable to this department.