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Title

QUESTIONS ON NOTICE

Foreign Affairs and Trade: Water

Database

Senate Hansard

Date

09-09-2009

Source

Senate

Parl No.

42

Electorate

Tasmania

Interjector

 

Page

6198

Party

LP

Presenter

 

Status

Final

Question No.

1964 and 1965

Questioner

Abetz, Sen Eric

Responder

Faulkner, Sen John

Speaker

 

Stage

Foreign Affairs and Trade: Water

Type

 

Context

Answers to Questions on Notice

System Id

chamber/hansards/2009-09-09/0211


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Wednesday, 9 September 2009
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Senator Abetz asked the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Minister for Trade, upon notice, on 21 July 2009:

For the department, each agency of the department and the offices of each Minister/Parliamentary Secretary, in the 2008-09 financial year, how much was spent on: (a) bottled water; (b) bulk water; (c) cooler rental; (d) cooler hire; and (e) water delivery.


Senator Faulkner (Minister for Defence) —The Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Minister for Trade have provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question:

DFAT, Austrade and AusAID do not report separately on the costs of these water supplies and services in their financial management information systems. To collect this information and provide details for DFAT, Austrade and AusAID specifically for the purpose of answering this question would therefore be a major task and we are not prepared to authorise the expenditure and effort that would be required. For ACIAR and EFIC, there was nil expenditure on these water supplies and services in 2008-09.

Questions referring to expenditure by ministerial and parliamentary secretary offices should be referred to the Department of Finance and Deregulation.