PERTH AND PEEL STRATEGIC
ASSESSMENT
342. Hon PETER COLLIER to
the parliamentary secretary representing the Deputy Premier:
I ask this question on behalf of Hon
Tjorn Sibma who is on urgent parliamentary business.
I refer to work undertaken by an
independent panel since 2018 regarding the strategic assessment of the Perth
and Peel regions, also known as the green growth plan, and to reports and
reviews that this panel has subsequently provided to the government and the
Deputy Premier.
(1) When did the
government receive the panel's initial critical review of the ongoing
costs, risks and benefits of the SAPPR, which apparently identifies three
critical gateway issues?
(2) Can a copy of
that report be tabled; and, if not, why not?
(3) When did the
government direct the independent panel to undertake further work on these
gateway issues and when did the panel present that report to the Deputy
Premier?
(4) What were the
findings and recommendations that the report referred to in (3)?
(5) Will the
Deputy Premier table a copy of that report; and, if not, why not?
Hon ALANNA
CLOHESY replied:
I thank the honourable member for
some notice of the question.
(1)–(5) The
initial report was received in October 2018, with further work requested in
February 2019. The supplementary report was submitted in December 2019. As
announced by the Premier on 26 March 2020, SAPPR is one of a number of initiatives
that has been deferred indefinitely to allow the state government to continue
to focus all efforts on responding to COVID-19. The findings and
recommendations of the independent review of the strategic assessment of the
Perth and Peel regions supplementary report is cabinet-in-confidence and is
still subject to a deliberative process. A decision on tabling the report will
be made at some time in the future.