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External Legal Expenditure

The Department of Health and Ageing total external legal expenditure (GST inclusive) for 2011-12

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Paragraph 11.1 (ba) of the Legal Services Directions 2005 requires that, by 30 October each year, Agencies make publicly available records of the Legal Services Expenditure for the previous financial year.

The Department of Health and Ageing total external legal expenditure (GST inclusive) for 2011-12 was as follows:

External Expenditure on Solicitors
External Expenditure on Barristers
External Expenditure on other disbursements
Total External Expenditure
$11,866,659.40$778,239.88$756,267.81$13,401,167.09
Note: Registration costs associated with the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments and costs for preparing legislative instrument compilations have not been included.

The Department of Health and Ageing total internal legal expenditure for 2011/12 was: $5,838,372.17.

Note: This figure reflects the operational costs for the internal Legal Services Branch.