For each financial year since 1 July 2000, what was the total cost of fuel purchases for all Commonwealth cars operated by the Minister’s department and agencies.

DFAT

Due to the way that fuel consumption data has been collected, details are provided in calendar years.

Data for the period 1 July 2000 to 31 December 2000 is not available. Details are provided for Canberra and interstate vehicles only. Collection of data on fuel costs for vehicles overseas would involve an unreasonable diversion of resources.

ACIAR

Australia-Japan Foundation (AJF)

Nil

AusAID

* Data for the period 1 January 2001 to 30 June 2001 only. Earlier data is not available.

Austrade

Austrade provides vehicles for operational purposes in its Australian and overseas offices.

As the cost of fuel cannot be separately identified in Austrade’s financial system (all vehicle running costs are recorded against one account), source documentation such as original invoices would need to be recovered from Austrade’s archives and fuel costs collated manually.

Manual collection and collation of the requested information on fuel costs would be resource intensive and costly, thus requiring an unreasonable diversion of resources.

Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (EFIC)

Fuel costs incurred by EFIC are recovered in full from employees.

The provision of accurate fuel costs incurred in 2000/01 for salary packaged vehicles will involve an unreasonable diversion of resources.