The Austrian Ministry in Defence in a response to MP Nikolaus Scherak’s parliamentary inquiry revealed its 2016 expenditures for externally sourced services, totalling €19.84m. This equals about half of the government’s total stated expenditures of €42.2m in that category. The figure that does not, however, include all ministries.

Item	Cost
Transport Services	€6.59m
Trainings	€4,73m
“Task Force Eurofighter”	€3.4m
Media and advertisement	€0.95m
Other	€4.17m
TOTAL	€19.84m

A comprehensive tabular list of all stated expenditures can be found in the German version of this article.

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