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Parliamentary Questions


Question On Notice No. 2408 asked in the Legislative Council on 20 August 2019 by Hon Alison Xamon

Question Directed to the: Leader of the House representing the Attorney General
Parliament: 40 Session: 1


Question

For each financial year from 2015 to 2018 inclusive, I ask:
(a) how many people undertook work and development orders to clear unpaid fines;
(b) how many of the individuals from (a) successfully completed these orders;
(c) how many of the individuals from (a) were women;
(d) how many of the individuals from (a) were classified as unemployed at the time of incarceration;
(e) how many of the individuals from (a) identified as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander;
(f) how many of the individuals from (e):
(i) were women; and
(ii) were unemployed;
(g) in which regions were the individuals from (a) located; and
(h) in which regions were the individuals from (b) located?

Answered on 26 September 2019

(a), (b), (c), (e), and (f)(i) in the table below:

Financial Year

a

b

c

e

f (i)

2015-2016

760

566

154

419

98

2016-2017

931

662

170

406

81

2017-2018

976

677

204

367

76

2018-2019

747*

468

159

306

71

* as at midnight 2 Sep 2019, 88 of the Work and Development Orders (WDOs) commenced in 2018-2019 were still active

(d) Individuals are not incarcerated at the commencement of a WDO. f) ii) Information on employment status is optional within the Department’s case management system (CBIS) and therefore does not capture the status of all individuals subject to WDOs.

(g) and (h)

 

2015-2016

2016-2017

2017-2018

2018-2019

Region

g

h

g

h

g

h

g

h

Metropolitan

227

174

404

288

486

303

353

192

Peel

58

37

89

52

102

72

66

45

Kimberley

266

195

182

140

109

87

91

66

Pilbara

114

87

151

120

152

137

133

111

Midwest

13

12

24

15

44

22

17

8

Goldfields

39

25

25

16

31

24

36

24

South West

18

14

37

19

33

21

24

9

Great South

25

22

19

12

19

11

27

13

TOTAL

760

566

931

662

976

677

747

468