RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES
(COVID-19 RESPONSE) ACT
1025. Hon NICK GOIRAN to the minister representing the
Minister for Commerce:
I refer to the Residential Tenancies
(COVID-19 Response) Act 2020.
(1) What is the department's assessment of the
percentage of residential tenancy agreements in Western Australia that
have experienced COVID-19 related ''financial hardship caused by the
economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic'' as referred to in the act?
(2) What plan, if
any, does the government have for the reallocation of some or all of the $24.5 million
remaining in the $30 million residential tenancies rent relief scheme fund for
which applications opened on 1 May 2020?
Hon ALANNAH MacTIERNAN
replied:
I thank the member for the question.
The Minister for Commerce has provided the following information.
(1) There were 238 372 residential tenancy bonds
lodged with the Bond Administrator as at 22 September 2020. The
department is not informed of the financial circumstances of individual
tenancies.
(2) The matter is under
consideration.