❓ Mr. Wyatt requests details on charter aircraft flights used by the Premier and Parliamentary Secretary since September 2008. The Premier provides the information in an attached schedule and highlights the previous Labor government's increased spending on ministerial air charter.
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(1) For each charter aircraft flight made by the Premier and/or Parliamentary Secretary since 23 September 2008, could the Premier please provide:
(a) the departure date and location;
(b) the destination date and location;
(c) the vendor that provided the charter aircraft flight;
(d) the monetary cost of the charter aircraft flight; and
(e) the reasons for the use of the charter aircraft flight?
(2) Could the Premier please confirm whether charter aircraft flights detailed in (1) were used due to the Premier and/or the Parliamentary Secretary missing the scheduled departure of a commercial flight that they were booked on?
(a) the departure date and location;
(b) the destination date and location;
(c) the vendor that provided the charter aircraft flight;
(d) the monetary cost of the charter aircraft flight; and
(e) the reasons for the use of the charter aircraft flight?
(2) Could the Premier please confirm whether charter aircraft flights detailed in (1) were used due to the Premier and/or the Parliamentary Secretary missing the scheduled departure of a commercial flight that they were booked on?
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22 February 2010
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89 days
(1-2) Please see attached schedule.
It is noted that in 2006, without public announcement, the former Labor Government increased the budget allocation for ministerial air charter from $3.9 million a year to $4.7 million a year. The then government
approved the replacement of the current air charter contract by tender for the lease of two aircraft - a Hawker 850 XP and a Beechcraft Super King Air B200. According to answers provided by the government ministers it was projected that, "...the increased funding it had allocated was likely to be well short of the amount required to meet the annual expense of the two contracts."
(Kim Chance, Legislative Council 14 June 2006)
The cost was absorbed
by spreading it across and into the operating costs for ministerial offices as noted on page 92 of that government's 2008/09 Budget where it was stated:
"The movement between 2007-08 Estimated and 2008-09 Target is principally due to the significant increase in projected rent and outgoings for accommodation at Dumas House and Governor Stirling Tower and an increase in ministerial air charter expense."
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It is noted that in 2006, without public announcement, the former Labor Government increased the budget allocation for ministerial air charter from $3.9 million a year to $4.7 million a year. The then government
approved the replacement of the current air charter contract by tender for the lease of two aircraft - a Hawker 850 XP and a Beechcraft Super King Air B200. According to answers provided by the government ministers it was projected that, "...the increased funding it had allocated was likely to be well short of the amount required to meet the annual expense of the two contracts."
(Kim Chance, Legislative Council 14 June 2006)
The cost was absorbed
by spreading it across and into the operating costs for ministerial offices as noted on page 92 of that government's 2008/09 Budget where it was stated:
"The movement between 2007-08 Estimated and 2008-09 Target is principally due to the significant increase in projected rent and outgoings for accommodation at Dumas House and Governor Stirling Tower and an increase in ministerial air charter expense."
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