Program · Outcome 1: Support for current and former parliamentarians and others as required by the Australian Government through the delivery of, independent oversight and advice on, work resources and travel resources
Program 1.1: Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority - Travel Oversight and Reporting
IPEA provides services to parliamentarians and their staff and publicly reports on their expenditure.
Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 12 reported
$100m
2026-27 Budget estimate
+$5.6m (+6.0%) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ordinary annual services (Appropriation Bill No. 1) | administered | $47m | $48m | +$1.1m +2.3% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 555 |
| Parliamentary Business Resources Act 2017 | administered | $36m | $39m | +$3.3m +9.2% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 556 |
| Departmental appropriation | departmental | $11m | $12m | +$1.2m +11.5% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 558 |
| Parliamentary Retirement Travel Act 2002 | administered | $649k | $667k | +$18k +2.8% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 557 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation in the Budget year | departmental | $65k | $65k | no change 0.0% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 559 |