Appendix B – Committee expenses 2009-10

The Committee secretariat’s annual budget for staff remuneration and administrative costs forms part of the appropriation made to the Department of the House of Representatives.

Secretariat staffing expenses for 2009-10 totalled approximately $545 400 (salaries and on-costs, principally employer superannuation contributions).[1]  The Committee’s administrative expenses for 2009-10 totalled $11 070.  The main components of this expenditure were:

• $4809 on printing and publishing services;
  
  
• $3388 on catering for meetings and hearings; and
  
  
• $1956 on flights, accommodation and incidental travel expenses for secretariat staff supporting Committee activities (as with other parliamentary committees, members’ travel on Committee business is funded by the Department of Finance and Deregulation; details of parliamentary entitlements administered by that Department are published at www.finance.gov.au/publications/parliamentarians-reporting/index.html).

The Chair and Deputy Chair of the Committee respectively receive an additional salary of 16 per cent and eight per cent of a Member’s basic salary in recognition of the responsibilities of their positions.  The amount of the allowance is determined by the Remuneration Tribunal and paid by the Department of the House of Representatives pursuant to the Remuneration and Allowances Act 1990.