Senate debates
Monday, 7 November 2011
Bills
Clean Energy Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Income Tax Rates Amendments) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Household Assistance Amendments) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Tax Laws Amendments) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Fuel Tax Legislation Amendment) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Customs Tariff Amendment) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Excise Tariff Legislation Amendment) Bill 2011, Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Import Levy) Amendment Bill 2011, Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Manufacture Levy) Amendment Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Unit Shortfall Charge — General) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Unit Issue Charge — Auctions) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Unit Issue Charge — Fixed Charge) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (International Unit Surrender Charge) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Charges — Customs) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Charges — Excise) Bill 2011, Clean Energy Regulator Bill 2011, Climate Change Authority Bill 2011; In Committee
8:30 pm
Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source
In relation to health, I will put this on the record and, if I am wrong, I am sure the very capable advisers will tell me. I am not sure that there is any further disaggregation than the CPI subgroup to which I referred. The health services CPI subgroup includes hospital and medical services, optical services and dental services, and the price impact was the 0.3 per cent average price impact per week of 10c. Obviously that is a consumer impact, so that is not an institutional impact. I have information in the CPI subgroup of pharmaceuticals. I will seek advice as to whether there is any disaggregation that is available as between those domestically and internationally produced and manufactured. The CPI subgroup for pharmaceuticals is also 0.3 per cent and the average price impact is here as less than 10c a week.
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