Outcome:	1. Environment			Question No:  31
Division/Agency:	Australian Greenhouse Office
Topic:	AGO Spending
Hansard Page ECITA:	36-37

Senator Webber asked:
On the 36 per cent underspend: I accept what you say about the money being rolled over to new programs or reallocated. Is it possible to detail how much of that went where?

Answer/s:
The underspends that resulted in savings occurred in 2001/02 and 2002/03. A small component of these underspends were in Departmental appropriations. As such there were no approvals to carry these forward in to future years. The majority of the underspends related to Administered Appropriations. These funds were re-profiled into later years, to the 2004/05 climate change strategy involving funding of new measures (Low Emissions Technology and Abatement, Solar Cities, Advanced Electricity Storage Technologies) and top up of existing measures including the Photovoltaic Rebate Programme, Renewable Energy Commercialisation Programme, Alternative Fuels Conversion Programme.