Outcome:	1. Environment			Question No: 17
Division/Agency:	Environment Quality Division	
Topic:	Budget Appropriations
Hansard Page ECITA:	13

Senator Wong asked:
I think we want all programs for which you are responsible. We would like the appropriation for the current financial year and the outer years and actual expenditure in the preceding three financial years.

Answer/s:
Environment Quality Division (EQD) Programmes are:-
Measures for a Better Environment - Urban Environment Initiatives (MBE Urban);
Measures for a Better Environment - Environment Protective Policy (MBE EPP);
A New Tax Scheme – Oil & Diesel (ANTS);
Fuel Quality Management;
Monitoring, Compliance and Enforcement (MCE) – Biofuels;
Biofuels Taskforce;
National Environment Protection Council (NEPC) Service Corporation; and
Improving Launceston Air Quality (Tamar Valley).

Appropriation figures for EQD:-
Departmental Appropriation	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11	
	$ million	$ million	$ million	$ million	$ million	
Base & S31 Appropriation	13.58	15.21	14.34	15.15	14.15	
Programme Appropriation	 	 	 	 	 	
MBE-Urban	1.14	1.49	0.00	0.00	0.00	
MBE-EPP	7.04	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	
ANTS (Oil & Diesel)	9.59	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	
MCE – Biofuels	2.47	2.94	2.43	3.03	0.00	
Total Departmental Appropriation	33.81	19.64	16.77	18.18	14.15	

Administered Appropriation	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11	
	$ million	$ million	$ million	$ million	$ million	
MCE Biofuels 	0.09	0.09	0.09	0.09	0.09	
Biofuels Taskforce	3.75	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	
NEPC Service Corporation	0.43	0.43	0.43	0.43	0.43	
Improving Launceston Air Quality (Tamar Valley)	0.42	0.20	 	 	 	
Total Administered Appropriation	4.68	0.73	0.53	0.53	0.53	

Outcome for previous year:

Departmental Outcome	2005-06	
	$ million	
Base & S31 Appropriation	13.29	
Programme Appropriation	 	
MBE-Urban	1.42	
MBE-EPP	3.07	
ANTS (Oil & Diesel)	9.84	
MCE – Biofuels	1.59	
Total EQD Departmental Outcome	29.20	

Administered Outcome	2005-06	
	$ million	
Biofuels Taskforce	0.36	
NEPC Service Corporation	0.43	
Improving Launceston Air Quality (Tamar Valley)	0.20	
Total EQD Administered Outcome	0.98	

Environment Quality Division did not exist prior to 2005-06.