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Parliamentary Questions


Question On Notice No. 460 asked in the Legislative Assembly on 5 April 2022 by Ms M.J. Davies

Question Directed to the: Minister for Finance
Parliament: 41 Session: 1


Question

(1) I refer to the State fleet for the each individual financial year 2019-20 and 2020-21, and ask:
(a) How many vehicles were there in the State fleet; and of those how many were:
(i) Electric;
(ii) Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs);
(iii) Other hybrid; and
(iv) Hydrogen;
(b) How many allowances for vehicles were paid; and
(c) What was the total cost of those allowances?
(2) For 1(a-c), please identify the total number of vehicles for:
(a) Ministerial offices, Ministerial staff or Ministers; and
(b) Departments, government trading entities, or agencies?

Answered on 10 May 2022

The Department of Finance advises:

(1)(a) In 2019-20 and 2020-21 there were 8,754 vehicles and 8793 vehicles in the State fleet, respectively.

(i-iv) There were, eight electric vehicles in 2019-20 and 11 in 2020-21; one Plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) in 2019-20 and 2020-21; 281 hybrid vehicles in 2019-20 and 370 hybrid vehicles in 2020-21. There were no hydrogen vehicles.

(b) and (c) The Department of Finance does not hold any records of vehicle allowances paid by other government entities.

(2)(a) In 2019-20 and 2020-21 Ministerial offices, ministerial staff and Ministers were allocated 45 and 47 vehicles, respectively. Of these, there were three hybrid vehicles in 2019-20 and eight hybrid vehicles in 2020-21.

(b) In 2019-20 and 2020-21 there were 8754 and 8793 vehicles allocated to Departments, government trading enterprises and agencies, respectively.

Of these vehicles there were eight electric vehicles in 2019-20 and 11 in 2020-21; nil PHEV in 2019-20 and one in 2020-21; 281 hybrid vehicles in 2019-20 and 370 hybrid vehicles in 2020-21.

Government Trading Enterprises are not mandated to lease vehicles, in whole or part, through State fleet arrangements.  The above information includes vehicles leased by Western Australian Treasury Corporation, Fremantle Port Authority and Development WA.