Senate debates
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Questions on Notice
2011-12 Budget (Question Nos 2180, 2181, 2199, 2211 and 2212)
Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source
The Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and the Minister for Disability Reform; Minister for Housing and Homelessness; and Minister for Community Services and Minister for the Status of Women provides the following answer to the honourable senator's question:
( 1 ) For the 2012-13 financial year, the net effect on the department ' s budget of:
(a) The original 1.5 per cent efficiency dividend is $8.9 million.
(b) The additional 2.5 per cent efficiency dividend is $11.5 million.
(c) Other savings measures as introduced in the 2012-13 Budget papers is ' Nil ' .
(2) The Department's primary strategy for managing within budget has been to set balanced budgets early and carefully monitor and regularly review these budgets.
In addition, there is a continuing focus on business improvements and reducing operational costs wherever possible. Examples include:
( 3 ) The Department ' s 2012-13 budgeted employee benefits expense is 57% of total expenses.
(4) Quantity of expected net reduction:
(a) A net reduction in staff is not expected for the 2012-13 financial year.
(b) It is too early to predict the quantity of any reduction in consultants and/ or contractors for this financial year.
( 5 ) Redundancies in 2012-13:
(a) We do not currently have any specific plans or targets for voluntary redundancies.
(b) We do not currently have any specific plans or targets for involuntary redundancies.
( 6 ) The Department ' s staffing profile is available in the 2010-11 Annual Report at Appendix B, Table B-2.
URL: https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?gid=2013-02-05.151.1
Referer: None
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)
Number: 2
Message: include(/srv/www/production/releases/20260517060354/twfy/www/includes/easyparliament/../easyparliament/templates/$format/$template.php): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory
File: /srv/www/production/releases/20260517060354/twfy/www/includes/easyparliament/commentlist.php
Line: 107
Source:
105 */
106 public function render($data, $format = 'html', $template = 'comments') {
107 include __DIR__ . '/../easyparliament/templates/$format/$template.php';
108 }
109
Sorry, an error has occurred
We've been notified by email and will try to fix the problem soon!
URL: https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?gid=2013-02-05.151.1
Referer: None
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)
Number: 2
Message: include(): Failed opening '/srv/www/production/releases/20260517060354/twfy/www/includes/easyparliament/../easyparliament/templates/$format/$template.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/php')
File: /srv/www/production/releases/20260517060354/twfy/www/includes/easyparliament/commentlist.php
Line: 107
Source:
105 */
106 public function render($data, $format = 'html', $template = 'comments') {
107 include __DIR__ . '/../easyparliament/templates/$format/$template.php';
108 }
109
Sorry, an error has occurred
We've been notified by email and will try to fix the problem soon!