Richard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

asked the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, upon notice, on 6 September 2011:

(1) For each program administered by the department and each agency in the Ministers portfolio:

  (a) what are the staffing numbers, by location;

  (b) how many regulations are associated with each program and can a list of those regulations by title be provided; and

  (c) what is the cost: (i) administered and (ii) departmental.

(2) What are the staffing numbers for each of the Ministers cross-portfolio programs, according to department and agency.

(3) In respect of premises owned and/or occupied by the department and each agency in the Ministers portfolio:

  (a) what is the location of each;

  (b) how many are: (i) leased, (ii) owned, and (iii) rented;

  (c) what is the size of each;

  (d) what is the annual cost per square metre of each that is: (i) rented, and (ii) leased; and

  (e) what is the: (i) value, and (ii) 2010-11 depreciation, of each building owned and/or occupied.

(4) For each board within the Ministers portfolio:

  (a) what is its title;

  (b) what are the: (i) terms, and (ii) tenure, of its appointment; and

  (c) who are the members.

(5) What was the 2010-11 expenditure for the Ministers portfolio, in total, and according to each program, for:

  (a) advertising;

  (b) travel, including: (i) business, (ii) economy, (iii) first class, (iv) international, and (v) domestic;

  (c) hospitality and entertainment;   

  (d) information and communications technology;

  (e) consultants;

  (f) education and training of staff;

  (g) external: (i) accounting, (ii) auditing, and (iii) legal services; and

  (h) memberships or grants paid to affiliate organisations.