ROYALTIES FOR REGIONS —
2019–20 STATE BUDGET
661. Hon PETER COLLIER to
the Minister for Regional Development:
I refer to page 192 of budget paper No
3 and the line item ''Administration and Administered Items'',
which forms part of royalties for regions. Will the minister provide a list of
the projects and programs, together with the amount of funding for each project or program, that fall under that line item�
for each of 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22 and 2022–23?
Hon
ALANNAH MacTIERNAN replied:
I thank the member for the question.
This is a very similar question to the one asked earlier today by Hon Martin Aldridge.
The administered items budget line
is a provision made mainly for election commitments when further planning is
required to deliver the proposals. I am advised that it was the standard
practice of the previous government to not disclose those projects under
development until they had been considered and approved by government. However, funding provisions for the following projects
are included within the administered items budget line; we are giving
more information than traditionally was provided! The projects are: Albany
artificial surf reef; Bunbury port planning; Collie Hospital upgrade; Collie
TAFE upgrade; the development of serviced industrial land; goldfields emergency
telehealth; Kalgoorlie motorsport precinct; Laverton Hospital; the regional
telecommunications project; and the two-year electronic monitoring trial.