Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Member is correct. We've told departments that there will be a 25 percent reduction for the upcoming year on discretionary travel. Non-discretionary travel such as medical travel, student financial assistance, those things, court appearances, court duty travel, have not been touched. So it's been discretionary travel. Those are difficult to follow through the business plans. Members will have the opportunity when each department comes forward to get specific details from them and we'll inform departments that they should be ready with that information. We could try and gather the information for past years, but for the upcoming year it would be difficult because within each department, there may be health boards and education boards and so on and it would be difficult to actually take out an actual amount that they've specified, because a lot of it is built in to either a directorate function or another wing of their department. It would be fairly difficult to get that kind of detail. I'll inform all Ministers and their departments that they should be ready with as much detail as they have when they come before Committee of the Whole with their specific departments. Thank you.
Floyd Roland on Question 18-15(3): Reductions To Departmental Travel Budgets
In the Legislative Assembly on March 17th, 2004. See this statement in context.
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