❓ The Leader of the Opposition questions the Premier about consultancy spending, alleging a failure to meet promised cuts. The Premier defends the government's actions, highlighting previous government commitments to consultants.
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I refer the Premier to my question without notice last week highlighting that the Government had failed to table a report on consultants over the past two years. I thank the Premier for at last tabling today two reports on consultants engaged by the Government for the 12 months ending 31 December 2001. (1) Is the Premier aware that the amount spent on consultants by the Government in 2001 totalled $18.2 million, a fall of less than half of one per cent on the amount spent by the former coalition Government in the calendar year 2000? (2) In view of the above, will the Premier now admit that he has failed to achieve his promised 30 per cent cut in expenditure on consultants? Dr G.I. GALLOP
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(1)-(2) The Leader of the Opposition may be interested to know that, of the 432 consultants included in the two reports tabled in Parliament today, 265 were engaged by the previous Government. The dollar value attached to those 265 consultants is $12.72 million, which equates to 70 per cent of the total value of consultancy expenditure reported during the calendar year. When the Labor Party came to government, it said it would ensure that taxpayers’ dollars were spent well. The Government has cut back on the size of the Cabinet; on the resources available in ministerial offices, including cars; and on unnecessary expenditure throughout government in the first budget produced by the Treasurer. Right across the system of government, the Government has made sure that money is spent properly. That is one reason the Labor Party is on this side of the House while the Liberal Party is on the other. The Leader of the Opposition did not do his homework. The Government is concerned about the amount of money that is being spent on consultants. Consultants are required from time to time, but the basis of the question asked by the Leader of the Opposition is not backed up by reality. Seventy per cent of the total consultancy expenditure report during that calendar year 2001 was associated with commitments entered into by the previous Liberal Government.
(1) Is the Premier aware that the amount spent on consultants by the Government in 2001 totalled $18.2 million, a fall of less than half of one per cent on the amount spent by the former coalition Government in the calendar year 2000? (2) In view of the above, will the Premier now admit that he has failed to achieve his promised 30 per cent cut in expenditure on consultants? Dr G.I. GALLOP replied: (1)-(2) The Leader of the Opposition may be interested to know that, of the 432 consultants included in the two reports tabled in Parliament today, 265 were engaged by the previous Government. The dollar value attached to those 265 consultants is $12.72 million, which equates to 70 per cent of the total value of consultancy expenditure reported during the calendar year. When the Labor Party came to government, it said it would ensure that taxpayers’ dollars were spent well. The Government has cut back on the size of the Cabinet; on the resources available in ministerial offices, including cars; and on unnecessary expenditure throughout government in the first budget produced by the Treasurer. Right across the system of government, the Government has made sure that money is spent properly. That is one reason the Labor Party is on this side of the House while the Liberal Party is on the other. The Leader of the Opposition did not do his homework. The Government is concerned about the amount of money that is being spent on consultants. Consultants are required from time to time, but the basis of the question asked by the Leader of the Opposition is not backed up by reality. Seventy per cent of the total consultancy expenditure report during that calendar year 2001 was associated with commitments entered into by the previous Liberal Government.
(2) In view of the above, will the Premier now admit that he has failed to achieve his promised 30 per cent cut in expenditure on consultants? Dr G.I. GALLOP replied: (1)-(2) The Leader of the Opposition may be interested to know that, of the 432 consultants included in the two reports tabled in Parliament today, 265 were engaged by the previous Government. The dollar value attached to those 265 consultants is $12.72 million, which equates to 70 per cent of the total value of consultancy expenditure reported during the calendar year. When the Labor Party came to government, it said it would ensure that taxpayers’ dollars were spent well. The Government has cut back on the size of the Cabinet; on the resources available in ministerial offices, including cars; and on unnecessary expenditure throughout government in the first budget produced by the Treasurer. Right across the system of government, the Government has made sure that money is spent properly. That is one reason the Labor Party is on this side of the House while the Liberal Party is on the other. The Leader of the Opposition did not do his homework. The Government is concerned about the amount of money that is being spent on consultants. Consultants are required from time to time, but the basis of the question asked by the Leader of the Opposition is not backed up by reality. Seventy per cent of the total consultancy expenditure report during that calendar year 2001 was associated with commitments entered into by the previous Liberal Government.
Dr G.I. GALLOP replied: (1)-(2) The Leader of the Opposition may be interested to know that, of the 432 consultants included in the two reports tabled in Parliament today, 265 were engaged by the previous Government. The dollar value attached to those 265 consultants is $12.72 million, which equates to 70 per cent of the total value of consultancy expenditure reported during the calendar year. When the Labor Party came to government, it said it would ensure that taxpayers’ dollars were spent well. The Government has cut back on the size of the Cabinet; on the resources available in ministerial offices, including cars; and on unnecessary expenditure throughout government in the first budget produced by the Treasurer. Right across the system of government, the Government has made sure that money is spent properly. That is one reason the Labor Party is on this side of the House while the Liberal Party is on the other. The Leader of the Opposition did not do his homework. The Government is concerned about the amount of money that is being spent on consultants. Consultants are required from time to time, but the basis of the question asked by the Leader of the Opposition is not backed up by reality. Seventy per cent of the total consultancy expenditure report during that calendar year 2001 was associated with commitments entered into by the previous Liberal Government.
(1)-(2) The Leader of the Opposition may be interested to know that, of the 432 consultants included in the two reports tabled in Parliament today, 265 were engaged by the previous Government. The dollar value attached to those 265 consultants is $12.72 million, which equates to 70 per cent of the total value of consultancy expenditure reported during the calendar year. When the Labor Party came to government, it said it would ensure that taxpayers’ dollars were spent well. The Government has cut back on the size of the Cabinet; on the resources available in ministerial offices, including cars; and on unnecessary expenditure throughout government in the first budget produced by the Treasurer. Right across the system of government, the Government has made sure that money is spent properly. That is one reason the Labor Party is on this side of the House while the Liberal Party is on the other. The Leader of the Opposition did not do his homework. The Government is concerned about the amount of money that is being spent on consultants. Consultants are required from time to time, but the basis of the question asked by the Leader of the Opposition is not backed up by reality. Seventy per cent of the total consultancy expenditure report during that calendar year 2001 was associated with commitments entered into by the previous Liberal Government.
(1) Is the Premier aware that the amount spent on consultants by the Government in 2001 totalled $18.2 million, a fall of less than half of one per cent on the amount spent by the former coalition Government in the calendar year 2000? (2) In view of the above, will the Premier now admit that he has failed to achieve his promised 30 per cent cut in expenditure on consultants? Dr G.I. GALLOP replied: (1)-(2) The Leader of the Opposition may be interested to know that, of the 432 consultants included in the two reports tabled in Parliament today, 265 were engaged by the previous Government. The dollar value attached to those 265 consultants is $12.72 million, which equates to 70 per cent of the total value of consultancy expenditure reported during the calendar year. When the Labor Party came to government, it said it would ensure that taxpayers’ dollars were spent well. The Government has cut back on the size of the Cabinet; on the resources available in ministerial offices, including cars; and on unnecessary expenditure throughout government in the first budget produced by the Treasurer. Right across the system of government, the Government has made sure that money is spent properly. That is one reason the Labor Party is on this side of the House while the Liberal Party is on the other. The Leader of the Opposition did not do his homework. The Government is concerned about the amount of money that is being spent on consultants. Consultants are required from time to time, but the basis of the question asked by the Leader of the Opposition is not backed up by reality. Seventy per cent of the total consultancy expenditure report during that calendar year 2001 was associated with commitments entered into by the previous Liberal Government.
(2) In view of the above, will the Premier now admit that he has failed to achieve his promised 30 per cent cut in expenditure on consultants? Dr G.I. GALLOP replied: (1)-(2) The Leader of the Opposition may be interested to know that, of the 432 consultants included in the two reports tabled in Parliament today, 265 were engaged by the previous Government. The dollar value attached to those 265 consultants is $12.72 million, which equates to 70 per cent of the total value of consultancy expenditure reported during the calendar year. When the Labor Party came to government, it said it would ensure that taxpayers’ dollars were spent well. The Government has cut back on the size of the Cabinet; on the resources available in ministerial offices, including cars; and on unnecessary expenditure throughout government in the first budget produced by the Treasurer. Right across the system of government, the Government has made sure that money is spent properly. That is one reason the Labor Party is on this side of the House while the Liberal Party is on the other. The Leader of the Opposition did not do his homework. The Government is concerned about the amount of money that is being spent on consultants. Consultants are required from time to time, but the basis of the question asked by the Leader of the Opposition is not backed up by reality. Seventy per cent of the total consultancy expenditure report during that calendar year 2001 was associated with commitments entered into by the previous Liberal Government.
Dr G.I. GALLOP replied: (1)-(2) The Leader of the Opposition may be interested to know that, of the 432 consultants included in the two reports tabled in Parliament today, 265 were engaged by the previous Government. The dollar value attached to those 265 consultants is $12.72 million, which equates to 70 per cent of the total value of consultancy expenditure reported during the calendar year. When the Labor Party came to government, it said it would ensure that taxpayers’ dollars were spent well. The Government has cut back on the size of the Cabinet; on the resources available in ministerial offices, including cars; and on unnecessary expenditure throughout government in the first budget produced by the Treasurer. Right across the system of government, the Government has made sure that money is spent properly. That is one reason the Labor Party is on this side of the House while the Liberal Party is on the other. The Leader of the Opposition did not do his homework. The Government is concerned about the amount of money that is being spent on consultants. Consultants are required from time to time, but the basis of the question asked by the Leader of the Opposition is not backed up by reality. Seventy per cent of the total consultancy expenditure report during that calendar year 2001 was associated with commitments entered into by the previous Liberal Government.
(1)-(2) The Leader of the Opposition may be interested to know that, of the 432 consultants included in the two reports tabled in Parliament today, 265 were engaged by the previous Government. The dollar value attached to those 265 consultants is $12.72 million, which equates to 70 per cent of the total value of consultancy expenditure reported during the calendar year. When the Labor Party came to government, it said it would ensure that taxpayers’ dollars were spent well. The Government has cut back on the size of the Cabinet; on the resources available in ministerial offices, including cars; and on unnecessary expenditure throughout government in the first budget produced by the Treasurer. Right across the system of government, the Government has made sure that money is spent properly. That is one reason the Labor Party is on this side of the House while the Liberal Party is on the other. The Leader of the Opposition did not do his homework. The Government is concerned about the amount of money that is being spent on consultants. Consultants are required from time to time, but the basis of the question asked by the Leader of the Opposition is not backed up by reality. Seventy per cent of the total consultancy expenditure report during that calendar year 2001 was associated with commitments entered into by the previous Liberal Government.
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