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  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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  <proceeding continued="true" uid="e78f3dcca9b6480daa57cc4cd97ba5a9">
    <name>Estimates Replies</name>
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      <name>Trade and Investment</name>
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          <heading>Trade and Investment</heading>
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        <name>In reply to Mr WHETSTONE</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Chaffey</electorate>
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          <question date="2025-09-16T01:30:00+09:30">
            <name>Trade and Investment</name>
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            <timeStamp time="2025-09-17T00:00:00+09:30" />In reply to <by role="member" id="4339" referenceid="578eb1a82ef14e8ab4261939b72f9549" uid="3632cdd14cd1431ba8cc76f854df0a72">Mr WHETSTONE (Chaffey)  </by>(25 June 2025).  (Estimates Committee A)</inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="5571" referenceid="211fedb0b8c24354b29ce9c0acb17416" uid="0ef649fd95ac4520b3920ae2146e5b87" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. J.K. SZAKACS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Cheltenham</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Trade and Investment</name>
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            <name>Minister for Local Government</name>
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            <name>Minister for Veterans' Affairs</name>
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          <question date="2025-09-16T01:30:00+09:30">
            <name>Trade and Investment</name>
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            <by role="member" id="5571" referenceid="211fedb0b8c24354b29ce9c0acb17416" uid="0ef649fd95ac4520b3920ae2146e5b87">The Hon. J.K. SZAKACS (Cheltenham—Minister for Trade and Investment, Minister for Local Government, Minister for Veterans' Affairs):</by>  I have been advised: </inserted>
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          <inserted>There is no discrepancy. The 2024-25 budget for the office of Minister Szakacs was disclosed within the Department for Infrastructure and Transport’s 2024-25 Agency Statement resulting in budget transfers from the Department for Infrastructure and Transport ($2.3 million for ministerial office resources) and from the former Department for Trade Investment ($46.9 million).</inserted>
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