Office accommodation and resources

Office accommodation Resources for offices Responsibilities for electorate, Ministerial and office holder office issues

The Minister may determine that the Commonwealth must provide you with the following for your parliamentary business:

• One or more offices in your electorate
• For Ministers (other than Parliamentary Secretaries), and certain office holders, an office or offices
• Public resources reasonably required for the conduct of your parliamentary business in offices provided by the Commonwealth.

These offices and resources must not be used for any commercial purpose.

Any commercial use of offices or office resources means the Commonwealth is not liable to cover expenses relating to the resource; and you will be required to repay the amount of the claimed resource and a 25% penalty loading may apply.

Office costs are included in your monthly management reports and quarterly expenditure reports.

In addition,

• you will be provided with an office in Parliament House
• members of the House of Representatives representing an electorate with an area of at least 3,500km² may be eligible to claim costs incurred to lease, operate, maintain, establish or vacate a privately funded office