An inquiry into former minister Phil Heatley's spending of taxpayer money has found that he did not intentionally break the rules.The Auditor-General, Lyn Provost, today published her report on the findings of the audit of expenditure incurred by Phil Hea
An inquiry into former minister Phil Heatley's spending of taxpayer money has found that he did not intentionally break the rules.
The Auditor-General, Lyn Provost, today published her report on the findings of the audit of expenditure incurred by Phil Heatley's ministerial office from when he became a minister in November 2008 until he resigned from his ministerial portfolios on February 25.
"Mr Heatley's overall ministerial office expenditure was reasonable compared to expenditure incurred by other ministerial offices for the period we looked at," the report said.
"We found that a total of $1402 of Mr Heatley's expenditure - $608 in Vote Ministerial Services and $794 in Vote Parliamentary Service - was outside the rules. In all cases, Mr Heatley thought that the expenditure was within the rules, but he did not understand the rules correctly.
"In the case of the expenditure in Vote Parliamentary Service, the Parliamentary Service was also administering a rule incorrectly for members of Parliament, and Mr Heatley is not the only member who will have been affected."
