QUESTIONS ON NOTICE › Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (Question No. 2518)
Senator Chris Evans: The Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations has provided the following answer to the honourable senator's question: The efficiency dividend is applied to the total departmental budget and not allocated to specific functions. Each year the department undertakes robust business planning processes through which resources are matched to workload and priorities. It is not possible to assign specific savings to the efficiency dividend.