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Police Overseas Service (Territories of Papua and New Guinea) Medal Bill 2011; First Reading
Kevin Rudd Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs
The answer to the honourable member’s question is as follows:
For the financial year 2010-11, the department spent $4.75 million in Australia and overseas on hospitality and entertainment.
The composition of entertainment and hospitality expenditure overseas and in Australia:
(a) Overseas $4.02 million
(b) Australia $0.73 million
TOTAL $4.75 million
(c) Hospitality and entertainment expenditure relating to the United Nations Security Council bid has been incurred both through a range of specific events and as part of broader hospitality events across the diplomatic network. To collate records to identify this expenditure would entail a significant diversion of resources and, in these circumstances, I do not consider the additional work can be justified.
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