Outcome:	1. Environment			Question No: 31  
Division/Agency:	Office of the Renewable Energy Regulator
Topic:	Commonwealth Financial Contribution to ORER
Hansard Page ECITA:	Written Question on Notice

Senator Carr asked:
For the Office of the Renewable Energy Regulator please provide the projected Commonwealth financial contribution for 2007-08, 2008-09 and 2009-10 and the amounts spent for 2003-04 and 2004-05.

Answer/s:
The Office of the Renewable Energy Regulator is funded entirely from Commonwealth appropriation. For 2007-08 the appropriation is $2.631 million, for 2008-09 $2.664 million and for 2009-10 $2.693 million. These figures are available from the annual Portfolio Budget Statements. For the 2006-07 year these figures can be found on page 152.

Expenditure for the 2003-04 year and the 2004-05 year can be obtained from the audited annual reports which can be found on the Office’s website, http://orer.gov.au/publications/index.html. From the 2004-05 annual financial report the expenditure for that year was $2.32 million and for the 2003-04 year $1.72 million.