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CHIEF MINISTER FOR THE AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION

QUESTION 461

Government Service - Consultancy Expenditure

MR KAINE - Asked the Chief Minister upon notice on 6 August 1991:

Has the ALP Government set a limit upon the amount money available to hire consultants and, if so what is this amount?

MS FOLLETT - The answer to the members question is as follows:

Consultancy expenditure undertaken across the ACT Government Service is provided within the recurrent funding base appropriated to individual programs. Separate consultancy allocations, as such, are not made within the the ACT Budget.

As part of developing the 1991/92 Budget, the Government announced a range of measures to reduce consultancy expenditure that will result in a saving of $1.7 million in 1991/92

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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