ROYALTIES FOR REGIONS
588. Hon Dr STEVE THOMAS to the Minister for Regional
Development:
I refer to the royalties for
regions funding program and to the Pilbara, Kimberley, wheatbelt, south west, midwest,
great southern, goldfields–Esperance, Gascoyne and Peel regions.
(1) What was the
total royalties for regions funding provided to each of these regions by
financial year from the program's inception in December 2008 until
March 2017?
(2) What was the
total royalties for regions funding provided to each of these regions by
financial year from March 2017 to 30 June 2021?
Hon
DARREN WEST replied:
I
thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. On behalf of the
Minister for Regional Development, I provide the following answer.
(1) I know the member has been quite outspoken about
the billions of dollars that were wasted through royalties for regions under the previous Liberal–National
government. For expenditure by the previous government, I suggest that
the member review past budget papers.
(2) In
relation to expenditure under our government, I note that our last budget
delivered a record $7.5 billion infrastructure investment in the regions.
Royalties for regions is only a portion of this investment.
In relation to royalties for regions,
I provide an indicative breakdown by region in tabular form and I seek leave to
have the response incorporated into Hansard.
[Leave granted for the following
material to be incorporated.]
|
|
Gascoyne ($m)
|
Goldfields–Esperance ($m)
|
Greath Southern ($m)
|
Kimberley ($m)
|
MidWest ($m)
|
Peel ($m)
|
Pilbara ($m)
|
South West ($m)
|
Wheatbelt ($m)
|
|
2017–18
|
63.8
|
59.0
|
55.7
|
103.7
|
67.4
|
47.6
|
191.7
|
132.7
|
121.0
|
|
2018–19
|
55.1
|
50.8
|
54.5
|
105.6
|
59.4
|
37.4
|
124.5
|
169.8
|
54.6
|
|
2019–20
|
70.0
|
95.5
|
76.0
|
176.7
|
85.0
|
73.9
|
111.1
|
170.5
|
79.0
|
|
2020–21
|
90.1
|
112.0
|
95.8
|
187.9
|
84.0
|
89.7
|
133.9
|
156.9
|
77.8
|
I note that this information is indicative only, many
Royalties for Regions programs are delivered across multiple regions, such as
the Country Aged Fuel Card, for these
programs the expenditure has been split evenly across all nine regions.