Senate debates Questions on Notice

Defence: Strategic Reform Program (Question No. 508)


Chris Evans

Chris Evans WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Government in the Senate

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

Cost reductions under the Strategic Reform Program (SRP) are based on annual budgets. In 2010-11, the cost reductions target for the Department and the Defence Materiel Organisation is $1016 million.

SRP savings are tracked, reported and managed on a stream-by-stream basis; they are not broken up by sub-category of productivity, one-offs or other descriptors. Defence will publish the stream cost reductions achieved for the full financial year in the Defence Annual Report 2010-11which is expected to be released in late 2011.

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