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Parliamentary Questions


Question Without Notice No. 23 asked in the Legislative Council on 4 May 2021 by Hon Dr Steve Thomas

Parliament: 41 Session: 1

CORONAVIRUS — SMALL BUSINESS — GOVERNMENT SUPPORT

23. Hon Dr STEVE THOMAS to the Leader of the House representing the Premier:

I refer to the Premier's announcement of $2 000 grants for businesses impacted by the snap COVID lockdown from 23 April 2021.

(1) Have the conditions and qualifying criteria been established for these grants?

(2) If no to (1), when will they be finalised and announced?

(3) What information and assumptions were used by the government to calculate the expected losses by business at $70 million, as stated by the Premier?

(4) Will the Premier please table that information and those assumptions?

(5) Will regional businesses outside the Perth metropolitan and Peel regions qualify for the grants; and, if not, why not?

Hon SUE ELLERY replied:

I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question.

(1) As stated by the Premier last Thursday, 29 April, when he announced the small business lockdown assistance grants, details of the program will be released later this week.

(2) See (1).

(3) The $70 million was a preliminary pro-rataed estimate based on Treasury's analysis of the impact of the five-day lockdown in early February.

(4) Refer to pages 25–29 of the 2020–21 Pre-election financial projections statement.

(5) No. The impact on the Perth and Peel regions is expected to be more significant, given that only these regions were required to enter the lockdown.