Question On Notice No. 233 asked in the Legislative Assembly on 17 August 2021 by Dr D.J. Honey
Question Directed to the: Minister for Energy
Parliament: 41 Session: 1
Tabled Paper No: 679-
View tabled paper
Question
I refer to non-payment of electricity bills for each year from 2016-17 to 2020-21, and ask
:
(a) How much debt was written off in each year;
(b) Of the total sum, what was the split between household debt and other customers;
(c) For the past two financial years:
(i) What was the number of households whose debt was written off and the value of that debt; and
(ii) What was the number of corporate customers whose debt was written off and the value of that debt; and
(d) For the past two financial years:
(i) What were the top twenty postcodes by value of household debt written off; and
(ii) What were the top twenty postcodes by value of corporate debt written off?
Answered on 12 October 2021
Horizon Power
[See tabled paper no ]
Synergy
(a)
|
Financial Year
|
Net write off
|
|
2016-2017
|
$ 8,946,970
|
|
2017-2018
|
$ 11,349,313
|
|
2018-2019
|
$ 17,963,356
|
|
2019-2020
|
$ 10,947,662
|
|
2020-2021
|
$ 14,461,194
|
(b) – (d)
Synergy does not have the data to answer questions (b) to (d) because debt write-offs are processed in Synergy’s financial system and exclude customer information.