Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Murray Darling Basin) | Link to this | Hansard source

asked the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, upon notice, on 22 September 2011:

(1) Can details be provided on total expenditure for the 2010-11 financial year for the department on:

  (a) advertising;

  (b) travel(including a breakdown of business versus economy and domestic versus international);

  (c) hospitality and entertainment;

  (d) information and communications technology;

  (e) consultancy;

  (f) education/training to staff;

  (g) external accounting;

  (h) external auditing;

  (i) external legal; and

  (j) memberships or grants paid to affiliate organisations.

(2) Can a breakdown of the expenditure in(1) be provided for each departmental group within the department on :

  (a) advertising;

  (b) travel(including a breakdown of business versus economy and domestic versus international);

  (c) hospitality and entertainment;

  (d) information and communications technology;

  (e) consultancy;

  (f) education/training to staff;

  (g) external accounting;

  (h) external auditing;

  (i) external legal; and

  (j) memberships or grants paid to affiliate organisations.

(3) Within each divisional area, can a breakdown of expenditure be provided, for each Assistant Secretary on:

  (a) advertising;

  (b) travel(including a breakdown of business versus economy and domestic versus international);

  (c) hospitality and entertainment;

  (d) information and communications technology;

  (e) consultancy;

  (f) education/training to staff;

  (g) external accounting;

  (h) external auditing;

  (i) external legal; and

  (j) memberships or grants paid to affiliate organisations.

Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) | Link to this | Hansard source

The answer to the honourable senator's question is as follows:

(1) to (3) The response to this question has been answered by Senate Estimates Questions on Notice 443-445 (the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy).