| Senate Notice Paper Question No 2521 Schedule Number: 300276 |
Publication Date: 23 February 2010 Hansard: Page 940 |
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Defence: Staffing |
Senator: Johnston | |
Senator Johnston asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 11 January 2010:
For the period 1 July to 30 September 2009, what was the average cost in recruiting each new uniformed person into each of the service areas (i.e. army, navy and air force).
Senator Faulkner - The answer to the honourable senator's question is as follows:
The average cost per recruit for the period 1 July to 30 September 2009 is $12,999 per recruit across Army, Navy and Air Force.
This is an average based on the total direct expenditure by Defence Force Recruiting in the period 1 July to 30 September 2009 ($25.309m) divided by the total number of uniformed personnel recruited to the Australian Defence Force through Defence Force Recruiting in this period (1947).
Whilst ceremonial activities and community based activities have an indirect benefit to recruitment, they are not classified as direct recruitment costs and as such are not included in these costs.