Finance Portfolio
      Tabled documents, 5 May 2016
      
        
          
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            | Department of Finance | Establishment Variances - Government, 1 February to 1 April 2016 Personal Classifications as 
              at 1 April 2016
 Personal Positions as at 1 April 2016
 | (PDF 5286KB) | 
          
            | Department of Finance | List of advertising campaigns by non-corporate Commonwealth 
              entities above a $250,000 threshold running in the media during the 
              week commencing 1 May 2016 | (PDF 1367KB) | 
          
            | Senator the Hon Mathias Cormann | Correspondence from the Minister for Finance to the Shadow 
              Attorney-General regarding the Victorian Division of the Liberal 
              Party and the Department of Finance, dated 3 May 2016 | (PDF 683KB) | 
          
            | Senator Jenny McAllister | Invitation to attend a post-budget luncheon with the Hon Malcolm 
              Turnbull MP | (PDF 592KB) | 
          
            | Senator Jenny McAllister | Article from The Australian entitled 'Abbott adviser in 
              funding row', 4 May 2016, p. 15 | (PDF 1254KB) | 
      
      Additional information
      
        
          
            | Minute of a meeting between the Australian Electoral Commission and Chevron Australia regarding voting services on Barrow Island for the 2016 Election, 
            provided by the Australian Electoral Commission on 5 May 2016 | (PDF 193KB) | 
          
            | Correspondence from Mr Nicholas Hunt, First Assistant Secretary, Budget and 
              Financial Reporting, Department of Finance, received 16 May 2016, 
              which corrects evidence provided to the committee at the hearing on 
              5 May 2016 in response to a question from Senator Wong about the 
              impact over the forward estimates of delays in the anticipated start 
              date of the 2014-15 Budget measure Maintain Eligibility 
              Thresholds for Australian Government Payments | (PDF 
              108KB) | 
      
      Questions on notice
	Due date for answers to questions on notice
	In the 44th Parliament, the committee set 17 
	June 2016 as the date by which answers to questions on notice from the 
	Budget Estimates 2016-17 hearing were to be returned. Following the 
	dissolution of both Houses of Parliament with effect from 9.00am on 9 May 
	2016 for the federal election, unanswered questions on notice lapsed.
	 
	Following the opening of the 45th 
	Parliament, on 31 August 2016, the Senate agreed that answers be provided by 
	14 September 2016 to all legislation committees relating to all questions 
	taken on notice by the committees’ predecessor committees with respect to 
	the 2015-16 additional estimates and the 2016-17 budget estimates, and which 
	remained unanswered at the beginning of the new Parliament.
      Index to questions on notice (PDF 
        231KB)
      
        
          
            | QoN No. | Agency | Outcome/ Program
 | Senator | Broad Topic | Hansard Proof 5 May 2016 Page or Written
 | View | Date received | 
        
        
          |  1 | Finance | 1/1.1 |   Wong |   Date of final Budget consolidation run |   p. 19 | (PDF 5KB) | 13/9/16 | 
        
          |  2 | Finance | 2/2.2 |   McAllister | Agencies exempt from 
              the efficiency dividend |   pp 32-33 | (PDF 16KB) | 13/9/16 | 
        
          | 3 | Finance | 2/2.2 | McAllister | Secretaries Committee 
              on Transformation | p. 35 | (PDF 8KB) | 13/9/16 | 
        
          |  4 | Finance | 1/1.1 |   Wong | Finance’s consultation 
              on revenue measures |   p. 36 | (PDF 15KB) | 13/9/16 | 
        
          |  5 | Finance | 1/1.1 |   Wong | Finance’s consultation 
              on revenue measures – Ten Year Enterprise 
              Plan |   pp 36-37 | (PDF 15KB) | 13/9/16 | 
        
          |  6 | Finance | 1/1.1 |   Wong | Efficiencies measures 
              for the Department of Foreign Affairs and 
              Trade |   pp 40-41 | (PDF 18KB) | 13/9/16 | 
        
          |  7 | Finance | 2/2.1 |   Wong | NBN – rate of return as 
              outlined in the Corporate Plan |   p. 42 | (PDF 15KB) | 13/9/16 | 
        
          |  8 | Finance | 2/2.1 |   Wong | NBN – set up of a 
              financing strategies body |   pp 42-43 | (PDF 18KB) | 13/9/16 | 
        
          |  9 | Finance | 1/1.1 |   Wong | Indigenous Land 
              Corporation –budget measure and concessional 
              loan |   pp 46-47 | (PDF 20KB) | 13/9/16 | 
        
          |  10 | Finance | 2/2.1 |   McAllister | Australian Hearing 
              Services – nature of engagement with 
              consortium |   p. 49 | (PDF 9KB) | 13/9/16 | 
        
          |  11 | Finance | 2/2.1 |   McAllister | Australian Hearing 
              Services – end of contracts |   p. 50 | (PDF 5KB) | 13/9/16 | 
        
          |  12 | Finance | 2/2.3 |   Bernardi | Update on the leases 
              for the Department of Immigration and Border 
              Protection |   p. 52 | (PDF 8KB) | 13/9/16 | 
        
          |  13 | Finance | 2/2.5 |   McAllister, Wong | Government advertising 
              – update on expenditure for year to date 
              including campaigns considered by the 
              Independent Communications Committee |   pp 56-57, 61 | (PDF 19KB) | 21/9/16 | 
        
          |  14 | Finance | 2/2.5 |   Wong | Government advertising 
              – provision of advice from Finance |   pp 59-60 | (PDF 7KB) | 21/9/16 | 
        
          |  15 | Finance | 2/2.5 |   McAllister | Government advertising 
              – list of campaigns costing less than 
              $250,000 |   pp 60-61 | (PDF 20KB) | 21/9/16 | 
        
          |  16 | Finance | 3/3.1 |   McAllister |   Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984 - 
              staffing numbers |   pp 63 & 66 | (PDF 5KB) | 21/9/16 | 
        
          |  17 | Finance | 3/3.1 |   Bernardi |   Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984 - 
              staffing for parliamentarians not affiliated 
              with a political party |   p. 66 | (PDF 8KB) | 21/9/16 | 
        
          |  18 | Finance | 3/3.1 |   McAllister |   Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984 - 
              staffing for former leaders |   pp 66-67 | (PDF 8KB) | 21/9/16 | 
        
          |  19 | Finance | 3/3.1 |   Wong | Mr Damien Mantach – 
              alleged misappropriation of funds – copies 
              of correspondence |   pp 70-71, 
              73-74 | (PDF 3057KB) | 7/10/16 | 
        
          |  20 | Finance | 3/3.1 |   Wong | Mr Damien Mantach – 
              alleged misappropriation of funds – 
              provision of details and advice |   pp 75-76 | (PDF 84KB) | 7/10/16 | 
        
          |  21 | ASC  | General |   Wong | ASC – numbers of job 
              losses since September 2013 |   p. 76 | (PDF 15KB) | 13/9/16 | 
        
          |  22 | ASC  | General |   Wong | ASC – change to the AWD 
              schedule |   p. 77 | (PDF 16KB) | 13/9/16 | 
        
          |  23 | ASC  | General |   Wong | ASC – reduction of 
              workforce numbers |   p. 78 | (PDF 18KB) | 13/9/16 | 
        
          |  24 | AEC | General |   Lines | Voting services on 
              Barrow Island  |   p. 86 | (PDF 16KB) | 21/9/16 | 
        
          |  25 | AEC | General |   Lines | Barrow Island – 
              correspondence between the AEC and Chevron |   pp 85-86 | (PDF 7KB) | 21/9/16 | 
        
          |  26 | AEC | General |   Lines | Barrow Island – AEC’s 
              meeting with Chevron |   pp 86-87 & 
              95 | (PDF 7KB) | 22/9/16 | 
        
          |  27 | AEC | General |   Xenophon | AEC’s use of 
              Australian-made paper |   p. 90 | (PDF 22KB) | 21/9/16 | 
        
          |  28 | AEC | General |   McAllister | Same-sex marriage 
              plebiscite |   pp 91-92 | (PDF 39KB) | 29/9/16 | 
        
          |  29 | AEC | General |   McAllister | Examination of the 
              LNP’s disclosures |   p. 94 | (PDF 7KB) | 21/9/16 | 
        
          | 30 | AEC | General | McAllister | Donation to the ‘Fadden 
              Forum’ | p. 96 | (PDF 18KB) | 21/9/16 | 
      
      For further information, contact:
      
        Estimates Officer
          Senate Standing Committees on Finance and Public Administration
          PO Box 6100
          Parliament House
          Canberra ACT 2600
          Australia