Queensland Ministerial Handbook
The Queensland Ministerial Handbook is part of the Governing Queensland suite of handbooks.
It has been developed to assist Ministers, Assistant Ministers and their staff in the running of the Ministerial Office and is designed to act as a single, simple and user friendly reference.
It sets out the common policies, practices and procedures to be adopted in Ministerial Offices with respect to a broad range of operational and policy issues relating to the functioning of the Ministerial Office.
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Table of contents
- Introduction
- Appendices
- Amendments
- 1.0 Human Resource Management
- 2.0 Information Management
- 3.0 Accountability and Ethics
- 3.1 Administrative arrangements
- 3.2 Ministerial Code of Conduct
- 3.3 Code of Conduct Ministerial Staff Members
- 3.4 Declaration of Interests
- 3.5 Memberships of boards, committees or councils
- 3.6 Lobbying Contact
- 3.7 Gifts - received
- 3.8 Gifts - made
- 3.9 Indemnities
- 3.10 Accountability and budget process
- 3.11 Public Report of Ministerial Office Expenses
- 3.12 Ministers and Chiefs of Staff Diaries
- 4.0 Expenses relating to a Minister's Office
- 4.1 Allowable Expenditure
- 4.2 Parliamentary Service support for Ministerial Offices
- 4.3 Expenditure that is not allowable
- 4.4 Accommodation
- 4.5 Consultants
- 4.6 Delegations
- 4.7 Hospitality and Official Functions
- 4.8 Office equipment
- 4.9 Partner's expenses
- 4.10 Political Party Expenses
- 4.11 Telecommunications
- 4.12 Transportation
- 4.13 Travel
- 4.14 Other
- 5.0 Entitlements