Department of Treasury

Scrutiny of Commonwealth expenditure

The below table shows instruments registered between 21 November 2019 and 26 March 2020 specifying Commonwealth expenditure within the portfolio of Treasury.

Please note that instruments will only appear on this page once they have been considered and reported on by the committee.

Instrument Grant/Program Amount Description Portfolio committee
Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Treasury Measures No. 1) Regulations 2020 [F2020L00101] Small business bushfire financial support line
$3.5 million over 3 years from 2019-20 Funding will be provided to establish a national telephone service that offers financial counselling to small businesses that have been affected by the 2019-2020 bushfire emergency. Senate Economics Legislation Committee