Section 13 (1)(b) of the
Parliamentary Budget Officer Act 2010 [the Act] states that the Parliamentary Budget Officer may, at the request of a member of Parliament: "provide analysis, advice and briefing of a technical nature on financial, fiscal and economic matters (including in relation to the costing of proposals included in the State budget)."
The Act does not empower the Parliamentary Budget Officer to publicly release such briefings. However, the following briefings have been made public by the member of Parliament that requested them.
May 2011