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

asked the Minister representing the Minister for Health, upon notice, on 31 October 2012:

Since 1 July 2010, have any electorate-by-electorate dissections for actual or potential Government programs, initiatives or decisions been prepared by departments, agencies or authorities within the Minister's portfolio; if so, for each dissection: (a) what has been its purpose; (b) what resources have been used; (c) who requested it; (d) to whom has it been circulated; and (e) can a copy be provided.

Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Minister for Health has provided the following answer to the honourable senator's question:

(a) The Department of Health and Ageing prepares:

(i) quarterly reports, by electoral division, on progress towards implementation of key initiatives and actual or committed expenditure measures; and

(ii) annual reports, by electoral division, which contain demographic information and information on selected health and aged care programs and services.

(b) The Department does not make a distinction between the resources required to produce these reports and other program implementation, expenditure or demographic reports. As such, it is not possible to quantify the specific resourcing required to compile the reports.

(c) and (d) The Department prepares the reports described above as part of regular departmental operations. The reports are provided to portfolio Ministers' offices and to the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet on request.

(e) Facts, figures and statistics on selected health and ageing programs represented on a geographical basis, including by electoral division, are publicly available on the Department's internet site at http://health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/Statistics-1.