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‐ ‐ ANAO Report No.11 2014–15 The Award of Grants under the Clean Technology Program 127 similar magnitude towards Coalition‐held electorates under the CTFFIP. The combined results of these analyses show that ALP‐held electorates had received 82.8 million 56.6 per cent in funding as at 31 May 2013 and Coalition ‐held electorates had received 63.6 million 43.4 per cent in funding. Table 6.1: Funding distribution by major political party as at 31 May 2013 Party CTIP CTFFIP Number Value of executed grants m Number Value of executed grants m ALP 62 63.9 50.5 79.4 57 43.5 32.3 39.0 Coalition 35 36.1 13.1 20.6 74 56.5 50.5 61.0 Total 1 97 100 63.6 100 131 100 82.8 100 Source: ANAO analysis of departmental records. Note 1: For CTIP, one grant related to a project located in an electorate held by an independent. The value of this grant was 128 533. For CTFFIP, two grants related to projects located in an electorate held by an independent. The value of these grants was 377 605.

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award of funding was undertaken through a public, open call for applications and was wholly consistent with the IA committees’ recommendations as to which application should be approved. In the context that 62 per cent of approved funding related to projects located in electorates held by the governing party, ANAO also examined whether there was any evidence of the electorate status influencing the process by which applications were received, assessed as to their eligibility and merit, and recommended to the program delegate. As no funding decisions were made by the delegate after the 2013 Federal election was announced, the distribution of funding, provided in Table 6.2, was based on the seats held after the 2010 Federal election. 146 146 Decision-making under the programs ceased after 2 August 2013. The Caretaker period for the 2013 Federal election commenced on 5 August 2013 and the 2013 Federal election was held on 7 September 2013. Table 6.2: Distribution of funding by political party based on seats held after the 2010 Federal election 147 Party holding the electorate in which the project was located Electorate distribution Applications received Applications approved by Program Delegate Grant agreements executed Approval rate Number of sites Funding sought Number of sites Value of funding approved Number of sites Value of agreements m m m ALP 68 49.6 623 53.8 389.2 55.7 365 53.2 175.4 59.3 342 53.0 179.8 61.9 58.6 Coalition 64 46.7 505 43.6 294.1 42.1 304 44.3 118.4 40.0 287 44.5 108.6 37.4 60.2 The Greens 1 0.7 4 0.3 1.4 0.2 2 0.3 0.6 0.2 2 0.3 0.6 0.2 50.0 Independents 4 2.9 25 2.2 13.6 1.9 15 2.2 1.6 0.5 14 2.2 1.4 0.5 60.0 Total 137 100 1157 698.2 100 686 296.0 42 645 290.5 100 NA Source: ANAO analysis of departmental records. 147 The 159 applications that had not been processed prior to the closure of the programs were excluded from the analysis.