Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

asked the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and the Minister representing the Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth, upon notice, on 21 September 2011:

For the department and each agency in the Minister's portfolio, can details be provided of the location of all offices, and for each office:

(a) the address;

(b) whether the building is:

(i) leased, or

(ii) owned;

(c) the size;

(d) how many staff are based in the building;

(e) if leased, what is the cost of the lease;

(f) if owned, what is the value of the building; and

(g) if owned, what is the depreciation of the building.

Kim Carr (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Human Services) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth has provided the following answer to the honourable senator's question:

A Property Data Summary for DEEWR and its agencies is at Attachment A.

This information is effective as at 17 November 2011, and therefore does not reflect the Machinery of Government changes announced by the Prime Minister on 12 December 2011.

DEEWR and its agencies lease all office space. That is, no buildings are owned.