Program · Outcome 1: Through our regulation and partnership with stakeholders, ensure quality vocational education and training so that students, employers, the community and governments have confidence in the integrity of national qualifications issued by training providers
Program 1.1: Regulation and advice
To ensure quality vocational education and training so that students, employers, governments and the community have confidence in the integrity of national qualifications issued by training providers.
Australian Skills Quality Authority, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 108 reported
$55m
2026-27 Budget estimate
−$3.4m (−5.7%) on 2025-26 estimated actual
Traced to named suppliers and grant recipients
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Published lines
Each row is one line of the program’s expense table in the 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements – Program Expense Line Items, as published.
| Line | Kind | 2025-26 estimated actual |
2026-27 Budget estimate |
Change | Treatment | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Departmental appropriation | departmental | $56m | $51m | −$4.2m −7.6% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 428 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation in the Budget year | departmental | $3.0m | $3.9m | +$863k +28.3% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 429 |