Former Parliamentarians' Expenditure

Explanatory Notes

1. Domestic Scheduled Fares

Payments made for travel by former Parliamentarians via domestic scheduled services. This total includes amounts paid and refunds received during the period.

Where a trip has multiple legs of travel, the cost of the whole trip may be reported against the first leg of travel.

2. Other Car Costs

Payments made for the following:

• Private-Plated Vehicle (former Prime Ministers only): hire, insurance, maintenance costs and fuel costs of Commonwealth-leased private-plated vehicles
• COMCAR (former Prime Ministers and surviving spouses / de facto partners of former Prime Ministers only): the cost of COMCAR trips billed within the period

Where a trip has multiple legs of travel, the cost of the whole trip may be reported against the first leg of travel.

3. Office Facilities ^#

(former Prime Ministers and surviving spouses / de facto partners of former Prime Ministers only)
Payments made for the following:

• Property operating expenses: including lease, power, cleaning
• Office security
• Repairs and maintenance: of both property and its fixtures
• Telecommunications – purchases: the purchase of, servicing, repairs and maintenance of telecommunications
• Office equipment: the purchase of office equipment.

4. Office Administrative Costs

(former Prime Ministers only)
Payments made for the following:

• Office Consumables and Services
• Printing and Communications
• Publications

5. Telecommunications

(former Prime Ministers and surviving spouses / de facto partners of former Prime Ministers only)
Payments made for telecommunication usage costs (fixed and mobile).

6. Family Travel Costs

(former Prime Ministers only)
Payments made for domestic travel, undertaken by the former Parliamentarian's spouse / de facto partner for the following:

• Domestic Scheduled Fares
• COMCAR

Where a trip has multiple legs of travel, the cost of the whole trip may be reported against the first leg of travel.

7. Travel Allowance

(former Prime Ministers only)
Payments made to former Prime Ministers for overnight stays in locations other than their home base, when travelling in their capacity as a former Prime Minister.

8. Employee Costs ^~

(former Prime Ministers only)
Payments made for domestic and overseas travel (where the travel can be attributed to an employee).

For domestic travel, the following payments are included:

• Motor Vehicle Allowance
• Travelling Allowance
• Domestic Scheduled Fares
• Cabcharge
• Other Car Costs
• Parking

For overseas travel (where the travel can be attributed to an employee), the following costs are generally included:

• Fares
• Travelling and Expense Allowances
• Passport Costs
• Equipment Allowance
• Other Related Overseas Travel Costs

Other overseas employee costs such as accommodation, meals, ground transport and other related overseas travel costs are not included due to limitations with the data provided to IPEA by third party suppliers at the time of payment. These costs are attributed to the former Prime Minister.

The number of employees represents the number of employees with travel expenses in the period, not the total number of employees in an office.

9. Overseas Travel

(former Prime Ministers only)
Payments made for overseas travel approved by the Prime Minister.

For former Prime Ministers and their accompanying spouses (including de facto partners), costs include fares, transport, accommodation, meals, official hospitality, travel and expense allowances, passport, equipment allowance, medical and other related overseas travel costs.

For employees of former Prime Ministers, certain costs are identified per overseas trip. These employee costs generally include fares, travel and expense allowances, passport, equipment allowance and other related overseas travel costs paid to, or on behalf of, the employee. Other overseas employee costs such as accommodation, meals, ground transport and other relataed overseas travel costs are unable to be attributed to individual employees due to limitations with the data provided to IPEA by third party suppliers at the time of payment. These costs are included with the Former Prime Minister's overseas costs per trip.

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# Office Facilities appears as an aggregate cost.

~ Employee costs appear as aggregate costs.