WESTERN POWER —
VALIDATION TEAM
368. Hon COLIN de GRUSSA to the parliamentary secretary
representing the Minister for Energy:
Given answers from 7 April, I refer
to the validation team within Western Power.
(1) How many FTEs are assigned to
this team, and what is the current headcount for this team?
(2) What is the average time that an
application sits with this team before proceeding to the next stage?
(3) How many
applications were submitted to the validation team for each individual month—October
2021, November 2021, December 2021, January 2022, February 2022 and March 2022?
(4) To date, how many applications
are awaiting consideration?
Hon MATTHEW SWINBOURN
replied:
I thank the member for some notice
of the question. The following information has been provided to me by the
Minister for Energy, and I note that it was correct as at 7 April 2022.
(1) Thirteen FTE are assigned to this team and the current
head count is 11. Two vacancies are actively being recruited.
(2) The average
time in the application technical assessment stage is currently 20 business
days.
(3) The number of
applications were: October 2021, 296; November 2021, 369; December 2021, 313;
January 2022, 232; February 2022, 382; March 2022, 494.
(4) Currently,
there are 435 non-simple applications under consideration.