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CHIEF MINISTER FOR THE AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION

Question No 460

Government Service - Travel Expenditure

Mr Kaine - Asked the Chief Minister upon notice on 6 August 1991.

What control mechanisms are proposed to limit the use of the travel budget by the ALP Government.

Ms Follett - The answer to the Members question is as follows:

Expenditure on travel undertaken across the ACT Government is provided within the recurrent funding base appropriated to individual programs. Separate travel allocations, as such, are not made within the ACT Budget.

In the Budget brought down on 17 September 1991, the Government announced a 20$ reduction in travel funding within all Budget funded programs.

Within the global allocation of funds and consistent with program budgeting principles, it is left to individual program managers, however, to efficiently manage, and be accountable for, funds provided to them through the annual budgetary process.

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