Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my question today is for the Minister of Finance and it has something to do with the budget address that was presented to us earlier today. An omission from that, I do believe, was travel and that the government was going to go department by department and reduce 25 percent of the overall travel budget. Having gone through the draft mains the last two-and-a-half weeks, it was very difficult for me to get a firm handle on which departments were spending what in terms of travel. I know there was a 25 percent reduction, but the real numbers were very hard to get to, Mr. Speaker. It seemed to me that in order to arrive at a travel budget it was the number of employees times about $10,000 and that's what the department arrived at in terms of a travel budget. So I'm asking the Minister if he could supply myself and other Regular Members with what the real numbers are in terms of travel for each department of this government. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
David Ramsay on Question 18-15(3): Reductions To Departmental Travel Budgets
In the Legislative Assembly on March 17th, 2004. See this statement in context.
Question 18-15(3): Reductions To Departmental Travel Budgets
Item 7: Oral Questions
March 16th, 2004
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