Dr. Steve Thomas asks the Minister for Lands about the number, value, and area of state land divestments in metropolitan and regional WA over five financial years. The answer provides sales numbers and values but lacks area data.

AnsweredQoN 505Legislative Council
Asked
17 August 2021
Portfolio
Lands

QuestionView source ↗

LAND
DIVESTMENTS
505. Hon Dr STEVE THOMAS to the minister representing the
Minister for Lands:
For each of
the financial years 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20
and 2020–21 —
(1) How many
metropolitan state land divestment sales occurred?
(2) What was
the value paid for those metropolitan divestments?
(3) What was
the total metropolitan area sold off?
(4) How many
regional state land divestment sales occurred?
(5) What was
the value paid for those regional divestments?
(6) What was
the total regional area sold off?

AnswerView source ↗

I thank the member for the
question. The answer is in tabular form and I seek leave to have that
incorporated into Hansard .
[Leave
granted for the following material to be incorporated.]
Answer
(1)–(6)
Total CrownMetropolitanSales
Total ValueMetropolitan Sales(excluding GST)
Total CrownRegionalSales
Total ValueRegional Sales(excluding GST)
2016–17
38
$28,452,921.44
107
$7,334,144.55
2017–18
51
$16,345,934.84
130
$8,941,566.60
2018–19
32
$28,089,524.50
81
$4,334,127.22
2019–20
19
$6,616,897.65
87
$7,610,776.33
2020–21
25
$13,788,899.70
84
$7,265,998.51
With
regard to the area sold, the Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage
financial records system does not provide for the extraction of data relating
to land areas.

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