* Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs will receive A$0.26 million and Veterans' Affairs A$14.1 million for resourcing and a capital budget of A$3.4 million.

* The overall communications budget allocation is A$6.5 million in 06-07, A$20.6 million in 07-08, A$8.5 million in 08-09 and A$4.9 million in 09-10. According to Bashford, A$7 million will be spread across Centrelink, Medicare and Veterans' Affairs for "internal communications associated with access card arrangements."

Australian Privacy Foundation chair Anna Johnson said Hockey will not release the PIA report because he believes it is already redundant following a change in the project scope.

Johnson said in that respect, then the KPMG report must also be redundant.

"Hockey keeps assuring us that privacy is foremost in his mind - and yet he refuses to demonstrate that he has accepted a single one of the recommendations made to him to date," Johnson said.