Question On Notice No. 930 asked in the Legislative Council on 21 September 2022 by Hon Steve Martin
Question Directed to the: Minister for Emergency Services representing the Minister for Environment
Parliament: 41 Session: 1
Question
I refer to the ongoing costs of maintaining our forests, and I ask:
(a) for each of the last 10 financial years, what was the total expenditure by the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions on maintaining roads in:
(i) State Forests closed to harvesting activities; and
(ii) State Forests available to harvesting activities; and
(b) for each answer in (a), how was this funded?
Answered on 20 October 2022
(a) The Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA) expenditure on maintaining roads across all tenure types in the south-west forests for each of the last
10 financial years is listed in the table below. DBCA does not maintain financial records to further break this expenditure down as requested in a(i) and a(ii).
Year
|
Amount
|
2012-13
|
$2,349,720
|
2013-14
|
$1,481,037
|
2014-15
|
$1,173,440
|
2015-16
|
$1,481,680
|
2016-17
|
$1,636,893
|
2017-18
|
$1,462,847
|
2018-19
|
$1,718,331
|
2019-20
|
$1.394,492
|
2020-21
|
$1,335,550
|
2021-22
|
$1,402,115
|
(b) The above expenditure is funded from recurrent appropriation, recoup from external parties and Main Roads WA grants.