Senate Notice Paper Question No 2524
Schedule Number: 300279
 Publication Date: 23 February 2010
Hansard: Page 941

Defence: Strategic Reform Program

 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 total net savings have been made in the Strategic Reform Program ‘Provisional Savings and Costs’.

Senator Faulkner - The answer to the honourable senator's question is as follows:

  1. Savings relating to the Strategic Reform Program were provisionally allocated across the decade in the 2009-10 Budget context.  The savings to the Defence budget have been attributed annually and will be reported on this basis.  Total Strategic Reform Program Net Savings from 1 July 2009 to 30 June 2010 will be $529m.

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