

- Title
QUESTIONS ON NOTICE
Family and Community Services: Senior Officers Costs and Air Charters
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Senate Hansard
- Date
10-08-2005
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Senate
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41
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Western Australia
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ALP
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Final
- Question No.
659 and 677
- Questioner
Evans, Sen Chris
- Responder
Patterson, Sen Kay
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Family and Community Services: Senior Officers Costs and Air Charters
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Answers to Questions on Notice
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chamber/hansards/2005-08-10/0201
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Family and Community Services: Senior Officers Costs and Air Charters
Page: 163
Senator Chris Evans
asked the Minister for Family and Community Services, upon notice, on 4 May 2005:
For each of the financial years 2000-01 to 2004-05 to date, can the following information be provided for the department and/or its agencies:
(4)
(a) How many senior officers have been supplied with motor vehicles; and (b) what has been the cost to date. (5) (a) How many senior officers have been supplied with mobile phones; and (b) what has been the cost to date.
(5)
(a) How many senior officers have been supplied with mobile phones; and (b) what has been the cost to date.
(11)
(a) What was the total cost of air charters used; and (b) on how many occasions was aircraft chartered, and in each case, what was the name of the charter company that provided the service and the respective costs.
Senator Patterson (Minister for Family and Community Services and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Women’s Issues)
—The answer to the honourable senator’s question is as follows:
(4) The figures for the number of senior officers who have been supplied with a motor vehicle and the cost to date are tabulated below.
|
2000-01 |
2001-02 |
2002-03 |
2003-04 |
2004-05 |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
No. of SES Vehicles |
44 |
44 |
45 |
46 |
47 |
|
Estimated Total Expenditure |
$501,947 |
$463,708 |
$434,857 |
$530,708 |
$524,480 |
(5)
(a) FaCS currently has issued 236 senior officers with mobile phones. To determine the number of senior officers who were provided with mobile phones in the previous financial years would represent a significant diversion of FaCS resources, as mobile phones services have been provided to FaCS by a number of service providers over this period
(b)
Total mobile phone expenditure across all FaCS mobile services for each of the financial years 2000-01 to date is described in the table below.
(11) Domestic charter travel:
|
2004-05 |
(b) Total = 1 |
|
Murin Airways |
$2,140 |
|
(a) Total |
$2,140 |
|
2003-04 |
(b) Total = 8 |
|
Cape Air Transport |
$520 |
|
Murin Airways |
$2,227 |
|
Murin Airways |
$2,145 |
|
Murin Airways |
$2,430 |
|
Murin Airways |
$8,050 |
|
Murin Airways |
$2,135 |
|
Murin Airways |
$2,330 |
|
Murin Airways |
$2,450 |
|
(a) Total |
$22,287 |
|
2002-03 |
(b) Total = 5 |
|
Corporate Air |
$1,880 |
|
Air Ngukurr |
$2,000 |
|
Murin Airways |
$500 |
|
Murin Airways |
$1,190 |
|
Murin Airways |
$3,800 |
|
(a) Total |
$9,370 |
|
2001-02 |
(b) Total = 1 |
|
Murin Airways |
$330 |
|
(a) Total |
$330 |
|
2000-01 |
(b) Total = 2 |
|
Inland Pacific Air |
$2,640 |
|
Northern Air Charter |
$1,540 |
|
(a) Total |
$4,180 |