Travel expenses

P. Gale made this Freedom of Information request to Department of Education

This request has been closed to new correspondence from the public body. Contact us if you think it ought be re-opened.

Department of Education did not have the information requested.

FOI Team Leader
FOI Team
Legal and Investigations Group
C12MT1
GPO Box 9880
CANBERRA ACT 2601

Dear FOI Team Leader,

This is a request under the FOI Act for documents. I request documents (details below) in regards to international travel (no matter if undertaken or merely booked) by/for employees in the Senior Executive Service in Higher Education Division/Group area since the Opposition Leader Mr Tony Abbott announced he would create a Commission of Audit if his party was elected.

I request only documents created in the period September 4th, 2013 to today. I request only parts of documents that identify the:
(i) name of the Senior Executive Service traveller
(ii) rank/position of the traveller
(iii) total cost of the travel
(iv) date the booking was made (if the travel has not yet taken place)
(v) purpose of the travel
(vi) destination(s) and dates of travel.

All else may be redacted. If a document repeats information from another document, only one document is requested. I have seen that in the case of similar requests made to Department of Finance in regards to parliamentary expenses, said department has frequently reduced costs by preferring to answer the request with a summary table in place of the original documents.

Thank you.

P. Gale (Mrs)
May 26th, 2014.

Education - FOI, Department of Education

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UNCLASSIFIED
Dear Ms Gale
Please find attached correspondence in relation to your request.
Regards,
Kirsten

Kirsten Burns
Senior Government Lawyer
Corporate & External Review Team | Child Care, Corporate & External Review Legal Branch Legal and Compliance Group Australian Government Department of Education Phone (02) 6121 5966 | Fax (02) 6276 7421

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Ms Kirsten Burns
Senior Government Lawyer
Department of Education

Dear Ms Burns,

Thank you for your informative decision letter (unreferenced) in regards to my FOI request of May 26th, 2014.

I accept the decision but I would appreciate your clarification of a statement about an important date. In paragraph 6 you refer to "5 December 2014" as if it were a date in the past, prior to May 26th, 2014. I assume that the error is only in the year and that you were meaning 2013 (ie, December 5th, 2013). Is that correct, or were you meaning some other date altogether?

Thank you again.

P. Gale (Mrs)
June 10th, 2014.

Education - FOI, Department of Education

UNCLASSIFIED
Dear Mrs Gale

My apologies, references in paragraph 6 should have referred to '5 December 2013' rather than '5 December 2014'. Thank you for the opportunity to clarify.

Regards,
Kirsten

Kirsten Burns
Senior Government Lawyer
Corporate & External Review Team | Child Care, Corporate & External Review Legal Branch Legal and Compliance Group Australian Government Department of Education Phone (02) 6121 5966 | Fax (02) 6276 7421

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