Title QUESTIONS ON NOTICE
Department of Environment, Sport and Territories: Hire Car Costs for Ministerial Travel
Database House Hansard
Date 06-02-1997
Source House of Reps
Parl No. 38
Electorate Reid
Page 436
Party ALP
Status Final
Question No. 1016
Questioner Mr Laurie Ferguson
Responder Mr Warwick Smith
System Id chamber/hansardr/1997-02-06/0152

QUESTIONS ON NOTICE - Department of Environment, Sport and Territories: Hire Car Costs for Ministerial Travel

(Question No. 1016)


Mr Laurie Ferguson asked the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, upon notice, on 4 December 1996:

What were the hire car costs to the Minister's Department for ministerial travel between 1 March and 1 September (a) 1995 and (b) 1996.


Mr Warwick Smith —The Minister for the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member's question:

A search of the records indicates that there were no private hire car costs met by the Department for ministerial travel between 1 March 1995 and 1 September 1995. Between 1 March 1996 and 1 September 1996, a private hire car was used for combined ministerial and departmental officer travel at a cost to the Department of $400.

Costs of ministerial use of Commonwealth cars (COMCAR) for each financial year will continue to be published regularly by the Minister for Administrative Services.