Bob Carr (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

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 2011-12 the cost reduction target under the SRP is $1284 million. This will be achieved through initiatives under seven SRP streams distributed as follows:

(a) Information and Communication Technologies - $147 million;

(b) Smart Sustainment (including Inventory) - $370 million;

(c) Logistics - $8 million;

(d) Non-equipment Procurement - $207 million;

(e) Reserves - $28 million;

(f) Workforce and Shared Services - $238 million; and

(g) Other cost reductions - $286 million.

*Summation variances are due to rounding

These figures have been updated since their publication in "Strategic Reform Program: Delivering Force 2030".

Defence will publish the stream cost reductions achieved for the full financial year in the Defence Annual Report 2011-12 which will be released in late 2012.