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824 - Public Service and Employee Relations, Aboriginal Affairs, and the Arts - MINISTERIAL EXPENDITURE

Jackson, Rose to the Special Minister of State, Minister for the Public Service and Employee Relations, Aboriginal Affairs, and the Arts, Vice-President of the Executive Council

For the 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20 financial years:

(1) How many nights travel were claimed by the Minister?

(2) How many nights travel were claimed by the Minister's spouse?

(3) What was the total amount of travel allowances claimed by the Minister?

(4) What was the total amount of travel allowances claimed by the Minister's spouse?

(5) What is the total amount of meal allowances claimed by the Minister?

(6) What is the total amount of meal allowances claimed by the Minister's spouse?

(7) What non-standard features are fitted to your ministerial vehicle, and what is their cost?

(8) What was the total cost of the Minister's taxi hire?

(9) What devices have been supplied to the Minister?

(10) What was the total cost of each device, by device?

(11) What was the total cost of the Minister's mobile phone bill?

(12) What was the total cost of the Minister's home phone bill?

(13) What was the total cost of the Minister's internet bill?

(14) How many staff were in your Ministerial Office and for each financial year what was the total cost of those Ministerial staff?

(15) How many staff in the Ministerial office are seconded from a department, agency or other body?

(a) For each, where are they seconded from?

(b) For each, what is their salary?

(c) For each, what is their normal title?

(16) How many smart phones are assigned to your staff?

(17) What was the cost of supplying each phone?

(18) What was the cost total cost of each phone bill?

(19) How many phones have been lost or replaced

(a) What was the cost of replacing these devices?

(20) How many staff were assigned tablet devices?

(a) What was the cost of each device?

(21) How many of those tablets have been lost or replaced?

(a) What was the cost of replacing these devices?

(22) How many staff were assigned laptop devices, and what was the cost of each device?

(a) How many of those laptops have been lost or replaced?

(i) What was the cost of replacing these devices?

(23) What was the cost of any software purchased by the office?

(a) What was the software?

(24) What was the cost or value of any artwork purchased or leased for display in the Minister's office or office suite, and for each artwork what company or organisation donated the artwork?

(25) Does the Minister's office use an indoor plant/gardener, or floral service?

(a) What was the cost of the service, the service provided, and the provider?

(26) What was the cost of subscriptions to news services, newspapers, magazines, journals and periodicals (including online services)?

(27) What was the cost all gifts purchased for use by you and your office, what were the gifts and who were they gifted to?

(28) What was the cost of water coolers or bottled water provided to the office?

(29) What did the Ministerial office spend on hospitality, including catering and beverages, please include cost of alcohol separately?

(30) What was the total cost of taxi hire used by the Minister and the office?

(31) What was the total cost of limousine hire used by the Minister and the office?

(32) What was the total cost of private car hire used by the Minister and the office for the following financial years?

(33) What was the total cost of ridesharing car services used by the Minister and the office?

(34) What was the total cost of planes or helicopters chartered by the Minister and the office?

(a) What are the details for each trip (mode, destination, departure site)?

(35) What was the total cost of ridesharing car services used by the Minister?

(36) What was the total cost of media or speech training, provided to the Minister?

(37) What was the cost of stationary for the following financial years?

(38) What brand of paper is purchased by the Minister's office?

(a) Is this paper Australian made?

(39) What was the total cost of professional photography for the Ministerial office?

What are the top 20 (by number of times accessed) unique domain names accessed by the Ministerial office this year?

 

Answer -

I refer you to my previous answers to Budget Estimates Supplementary Questions.

 


Question asked on 14 November 2019 (session 57-1) and published in Questions & Answers Paper No. 136
Answer received on 5 December 2019 and published in Questions & Answers Paper No. 151