Parliamentary Departments
Citizenship Visit Programme - increase in funding
| 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | |
| Department of the House of Representatives | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Department of the Senate | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
The Citizenship Visit Programme provides a subsidy for final year primary and secondary school students when they visit Parliament House. Currently each of the chamber departments receives about $0.5 million per annum for this programme. The additional funding of $0.8 million over four years will provide an increased subsidy for growing travel costs of the visiting students.
Parliamentary Departments - efficiency measures
| 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | |
| Joint House Department | - | -1.2 | -1.3 | -1.3 |
| Department of the House of Representatives | - | -1.2 | -1.3 | -1.3 |
| Department of the Senate | - | -1.2 | -1.3 | -1.3 |
| Department of the Parliamentary Library | - | -1.2 | -1.3 | -1.3 |
| Department of the Parliamentary Reporting Staff | - | -1.2 | -1.3 | -1.3 |
Expenses in the forward years for enhanced security at Parliament House are to be offset by savings over 2004-05 to 2006-07, to be achieved through introduction of efficiencies, either by implementation of the recommendations of the Review of Aspects of the Administration of the Parliament, or by alternative means, against the appropriations for the parliamentary departments.
The savings are to be derived from each of the five parliamentary departments. These are the Departments of the House of Representatives and the Senate, the Parliamentary Library, the Joint House Department and the Department of Parliamentary Reporting Staff.
See also the related expense measure titled A Safer Australia - enhanced Parliament House Security in the A Safer Australia package in the Attorney-General's portfolio.