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Parliamentary Questions


Question Without Notice No. 619 asked in the Legislative Council on 2 September 2021 by Hon Dr Steve Thomas

Parliament: 41 Session: 1

INSURANCE COMMISSION — BELL RESOURCES SETTLEMENT

619. Hon Dr STEVE THOMAS to the Leader of the House representing the Premier:

Again, I anticipate that I will receive the same answer as before, but I will read in the question.

I refer to the media release by the Premier on 4 October 2020 in which he said that he ''is giving every Western Australian household a one-off $600 credit on their residential electricity bill'' from 1 November 2020 and that this would be ''funded by the historic Bell Group settlement, which returned around $665 million back to WA taxpayers after associated costs''.

(1) What has been the total cost of the commitment to date?

(2) Has the entire cost been paid for by the transfer of money from the Insurance Commission of Western Australia?

(3) Will the entire cost of the commitment come from future transfers of money from ICWA?

(4) If yes to (3), has the board of ICWA agreed to that transfer; and, if so, when did it do so?

(5) If yes to (3), has ICWA been reimbursed for the costs of the Bell Resources litigation or is it expected to absorb the $292 million cost in its own budget?

Hon SUE ELLERY replied:

As I indicated before, the Premier; Treasurer is not available to answer questions today, but I am advised an answer will be provided on Tuesday.