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❓ Mrs. Harvey questions the basis for the Forrestfield Airport Link operating subsidies in the budget, specifically seeking the patronage estimates used to calculate the subsidy amounts for 2018-2021. The answer reveals the subsidy wasn't factored into previous budgets and provides a patronage estimate for 2020-21 only.

AnsweredQoN 2144Legislative Assembly

Asked

10 October 2017

Member

Mrs L.M. Harvey

Portfolio

Transport; Planning; Lands

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In relation to the operating subsidy in the budget for the Forrestfield Airport Link which is estimated to be $5.011million in 2018-2019, $15.851 million in 2019-2020 and $41.049 million in 2020-2021, I ask: (a) what patronage estimates are these subsidies based on for 2018-2019; (b) what patronage estimates are these subsidies based on for 2019-2020; and (c) what patronage estimates are these subsidies based on for 2020-2021?

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Answered

22 November 2017

Responded by

Minister for Transport; Planning; Lands

Response time

13 days

(a)-(b) Nil - the estimated commissioning of the Forrestfield-Airport Link is late 2020.
(c) 5 million total boardings are estimated for the Forrestfield-Airport Link for 2020-21.
This subsidy was not factored into previous Government Budgets or forward estimates.

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