Senator Bob Carr: The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honorable senator's question: (1) The Defence funded component of the Force Protection Review, $912 million has been funded as follows: reprogramming of the Defence Capability Program (DCP), reprioritisation of lower priority initiatives and reprogramming of facilities program (primarily Single Leap 2) to better align its cash provision to the revised construction timetable ($436.1m); existing capability projects ($402.3m); and an amount of $73.5m reallocated within Defence by rebalancing a very small number of DCP projects. (2) Defence has either delayed or revised the expenditure spread for a total of 11 Defence Capability Plan Projects to fund the Force Protection Review. (3) Defence has not ceased disclosing information. As a consequence of the 2009 Defence White Paper, a new funding model was applied to the Defence budget and therefore there was no appropriation reprogramming in the 2009-10 budget. Appropriation reprogramming was again undertaken in the 2010-11 budget as shown in the Portfolio Budget Statements 2010-11 (Pg 22, Table 10: Budget Measures and Other Budget Adjustments). Capital Investment reprogramming was undertaken in the 2011-12 budget as shown in the Portfolio Budget Statements 2011-12 (Pg 28, Table 11: Defence 2011-12 Budget Measures and Other Budget Adjustments). Efficiencies and reprogramming was undertaken in the 2012-13 budget as shown in the Portfolio Budget Statements 2012-13 (Pg 29, Table 15: Defence 2011-12 Budget Measures and Other Budget Adjustments). (4) (a) and (b) See Annex A (available from the Senate Table Office). (5) The total Approved Major Capital Investment Program is $3,138.3m in 2012-13 and $7,394.1 million over the 13-14 to 15-16 forward estimates period (refer Table 18 of the Portfolio Budget Statements 2012-13). The amounts in each year of the Approved Major Capital Investment Program is not managed on a percentage increase basis but rather reflects the cash flow required to support the delivery of particular projects. This may or may not be a linear relationship. (6) DCP projects in development for consideration by Government were provided on page 133, tables 84 and 85 of the Portfolio Budget Statements 2012-13. The DCP and its associated regular updates are available through the Defence website (refer http://www.defence.gov.au/dmo/id/dcp/dcp.cfm ). (7) (a) and (b) As shown on page 29, table 15 of the Portfolio Budget Statements 2012-13, the following Budget Measures have been absorbed within Defence's existing budgets in 2012-13: Coastal surveillance – continuation of Operation Resolute; Intermodal terminal at Moorebank in Western Sydney – Defence relocation; and Bushmaster vehicles – acquisition of long-lead supplies. As shown on page 31, Table 17 of the Portfolio Budget Statements 2012-13, Defence will absorb some costs associated with Defence Operations and Enhanced Force Protection Capabilities. (8) The Strategic Reform Program is a comprehensive program that features many aspects of reform that are not directly focused on efficiency. The reallocation of funds in the "Other Cost Reductions" component reflects an increase in the efficiency with which Defence allocated resources. It also reflects improved Defence planning and understanding of the Defence Budget. These are all key outcomes of the Strategic Reform Program. (9) (a) and (b)The workforce reductions from efficiency savings and the 0.7% productivity have been combined to give Defence Budget Audit workforce reduction totals of 3,125 civilians and 1,713 military compared to SRP reductions of 1708 civilians and 859 military. The difference is attributed to adjustments to Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO) and Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) workforce savings, removal of operational and capability related workforce from the baseline and savings, inclusion of efficiency and effectiveness savings for DMO and DSTO, and inclusion of Logistics workforce savings. Within SRP, there is growth within civilian positions under the Workforce and Shared Services Reform (WSSR) and Non Equipment Procurement streams. The total APS workforce growth is 1,416 (civilianisation 535 and contractor conversions 881) across the decade realising approximately $1b in savings due to the reduced cost of employing civilians into these support roles. Total APS efficiency improvements comprise APS WSSR efficiency savings of 1,374 Full Time Equivalent (FTE), 5 FTE associated with ADF Gap Year reductions and 0.7% productivity savings of 729 FTE. The net civilian workforce impact by 2018-19 after taking into account FTE workforce growth associated with civilianisation is a saving of 1,573 FTE. Further savings of up to 124 FTE associated with Logistics stream reform are yet to be finalised so have not yet been included in workforce guidance trails.