Better health and ageing for all Australians

Our Organisation

External Legal Expenditure

The Department of Health and Ageing total external legal expenditure (GST inclusive) for 2006/07.

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 2006/07 was as follows:

External Expenditure on Solicitors

External Expenditure on Barristers

External Expenditure on other disbursements

Total External Expenditure

$6,444,131$54,048$53,019$6,587,399

Note: Registration costs associated with the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments and costs for preparing legislative instrument compilations have not been included.

Internal Legal Expenditure

The Department of Health and Ageing total internal legal expenditure (GST exclusive) for 2006/07 was: $5,285,187.