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Australian National Audit Office Report No. 18
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Page: 603
Mr SINCLAIR
—Mr Speaker, I have a question for you. I draw your attention to Audit report no. 18: competitive employment training and placement services within the Department of Health and Family Services. Page 20 of that report relates to question on notice No. 2495, asked in the House of Representatives on 29 June 1995. The reply of the Minister for Human Services and Health was tabled on 23 August 1995. I have given notice of my intention to ask this question of you about the honourable member for Fremantle.
The question requested details of each CETP project established since 1 January 1994. Material provided to the minister to record comments by her department included a schedule of 28 projects under the heading `CETP services established since 1 January 1994'. The minister included this schedule as an attachment to her reply. The report said that the ANAO found that the attachment cross-referenced in the minister's reply included incorrect information on the extent of CETP services established since 1 January 1994.
Mr Crean
—Mr Speaker, on a point of order—
Mr SPEAKER
—Sit down.
Mr SINCLAIR
—It found that three of the 17 projects were not new projects but `re-auspiced projects', as they termed it. It continued to say that the briefing provided did not include relevant background information.
It all relates to the fact that the ANAO has found that an answer given by the minister was inaccurate. In that sense, I believe the former minister, perhaps inadvertently, has misled this place. I would ask that you request that she apologise to the House for having misled the parliament, albeit it was on the advice of her department.
Mr SPEAKER
—The right honourable member for New England has raised a very complex question. We will need to examine the report in considerable detail. If any further action is required when we read the report, I will further address the House.