QUESTIONS ON NOTICE › Office of the Productivity Commission (Question No. 993)
Senator Wong: The Treasurer has provided the following answer to the honourable senator's question: (1) — (a) advertising; $160,550 excluding GST (b) air travel within Australia in business class; $395,587 excluding GST (c) air travel within Australia in economy class; $267,805 excluding GST (d) air travel within Australia by charter flight; Nil (e) air travel outside Australia in first class; Nil (f) air travel outside Australia in business class; $91,641 excluding GST (g) air travel outside Australia in economy class; Nil (h) air travel outside Australia by charter flight; Nil (i) hospitality and entertainment; $13,746 excluding GST (j) information and communications technology (ICT) costs generally; $666,456 excluding GST (k) ICT costs to external providers; $4,155 excluding GST (l) external consultants generally; $33,190 excluding GST (m) external accounting services; Nil (n) external auditing services; $19,350 excluding GST and ANAO resources free of charge (o) external legal services; and $56,359 excluding GST (p) memberships or grants paid to affiliate organisations. Nil (2) In relation to each of the items referred to in question 1, what is the budgeted total expenditure for the 2011-12 financial year. The Productivity Commission's budget is affected by the timing and nature of work commissioned by Government. Although the Commission is budgeting for a 'break-even' result in 2011-12, it has not allocated budget at the level of these line items.