Solicitor for the NT, Budget
WRITTEN QUESTIONS
9th Assembly
01/11/2004
239. Solicitor for the NT, Budget
Ms Carney to MINISTER for Justice and Attorney-General
QUESTION
Solicitor for the NT, Budget
I would be grateful if you would provide the answer to the following question in relation to the Justice Department's Budget for 2004-05. In order to assist you, please note that this question relates to output group: 1.0 Legal Services (1.1: Solicitor for the NT).
- In 2003-04 the Solicitor for the NT was allocated $13.290m. In Budget 2004-05, the Solicitor for the NT is allocated 10.824m, which is a reduction of $3.83m.
In answer to a question during last year’s Estimates hearing at page 185, the Attorney-General said that “…in the last budget, we indicated an increased budget to the Solicitor for the NT of $1.3m to allow for the in-housing of some of previously outsourced legal capacity. That arrangement will go for 2 years, so we are half way through that”. He further advised that as a result of this increased funding, 9 positions were created and put into the Department of Justice.
- Is it intended that those 9 positions be retained and if so, how will it be done given the overall reduction of funding by $3.383m.
ANSWER
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