Question On Notice No. 892 asked in the Legislative Council on 30 August 2022 by Hon Nick Goiran
Question Directed to the: Parliamentary Secretary representing the Attorney General
Parliament: 41 Session: 1
Question
I refer to funding for legal assistance services,
and I ask:
(a) what is the total Commonwealth and State funding allocation for legal assistance services in Western Australia for 2022-23;
(b) how much of the
funding from (a) was allocated to,:
(i) Legal Aid WA;
(ii) Aboriginal Legal Service;
(iii) Family Violence
Prevention Legal Services; and
(iv) Community Legal Centres; and
(c) for each of services
in (a) and (b), how much of this amount was:
(i) Commonwealth funding
through the National Legal Assistance Partnership (NLAP) (base funding under
this partnership);
(ii) Commonwealth funding through the NLAP for the Family Advocacy and Support Service;
(iii) Commonwealth funding through the NLAP for Child Sex Abuse prosecutions;
(iv) Commonwealth
funding through the NLAP for Workplace Sex Harassment;
(v) Commonwealth funding
through the NLAP for Domestic Violence Units and Health Justice Partnerships;
(vi) Commonwealth funding through the NLAP for Vulnerable Women;
(vii) Commonwealth funding through the NLAP for Mental Health Conditions;
(viii) Commonwealth funding for Closing the Gap;
(ix) other Commonwealth
NLAP funding (if any);
(x) State Government Covid-19 funding; and
(xi) other State Government Legal Assistance Services funding through the Department of Justice?
Answered on 11 October 2022
(a) For 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2023, the total Commonwealth and State funding allocations managed by the Department of Justice and distributed to the Legal Assistance sector is approximately $128M. The Commonwealth also provides additional funding directly to legal assistance providers which is not managed by the Department of Justice.
(b) - (c)
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Cth
Baseline
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Cth DVU/HJP
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Cth
FASS
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Cth
Justice
Policy
Partnership
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Cth
Coronial Inquiries Expensive Complex Cases
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Cth
Workplace
Sexual
Harassment
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Cth
Vulnerable
Women
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Cth
Child
Sexual Abuse
Prosecutions
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Cth
Mental
Health
Conditions
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State Baseline
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State COVID
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LAWA
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$27,666,000
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-
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$1,832,000
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-
|
-
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$150,040
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$1,029,500
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$208,000
|
$150,000
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$55,663,000
|
-
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ALSWA
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$13,667,000
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-
|
-
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$91,000
|
$780,000
|
$150,040
|
$990,000
|
-
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$1,171,000
|
-
|
-
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FVPLS
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
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$885,158
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CLC
|
$7,200,000
|
$2,160,000
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
$1,063,920
|
$1,238,500
|
-
|
$500,000
|
$8,193,000
|
$3,615,842
|
|
$48,533,000
|
$2,160,000
|
$1,832,000
|
$91,000
|
$780,000
|
$1,364,000
|
$3,258,000
|
$208,000
|
$1,821,000
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$63,856,000
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$4,501,000
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(c) (xi) Other State Government Legal Asssistance Services Funding
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State
Shuttle Conferencing
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State
Bail Support Service/Prison in Reach
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State
Custody Notification
Service
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ALSWA
|
-
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$1,318,000
|
$400,000
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CLC
|
$462,840
|
-
|
-
|
|
$462,840
|
$1,318,000
|
$400,000
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