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Tuesday, 5 February 2013

Questions on Notice

Budget: Efficiency Dividend (Question No. 2203)

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

(1) (a) The impact of the 1.5% efficiency dividend for the 2012-13 Financial Year is $4.5 million.

(b) The impact of the 2.5% efficiency dividend for the 2012-13 Financial Year is $7.3 million.

(c) There were no other decisions of Government that resulted in other savings measures for the Department in 2012-13.

(2) The Department has implemented the efficiency dividend targets without impact on any services to the veteran community. Areas of where savings were made include:

          (3) For the 2011-12 Financial Year, out of a total expenditure of approximately $360 million, DVA spent approximately $192 million on staffing costs, equating to 54%.

          (4) As a result of the efficiency dividend for 2012-13 a net reduction is expected of:

          (a) approximately $6.07 million savings from 67 staff reduction (which equates to approximately 62 FTE); and

          (b) approximately $3.6 million savings due to reduced expenditure on contracts and consultants.

          (5) As a result of the efficiency dividend:

              (6) The current distribution of full-time equivalent staff across classification bands is provided below:

              Current Distribution of FTE across classifications

              Figures as at 30 September 2012.

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