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❓ A WA parliamentary question seeks detailed data on emergency accommodation usage at 11 hotels/hostels removed from the Department of Communities' list after a fire. The Department declined to provide the data, citing the unreasonable resource burden of manual file searches.

AnsweredQoN 6234Legislative Assembly

Asked

16 June 2020

Member

Mr A. Krsticevic

Portfolio

Community Services

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I refer to the decision by the Department of Communities to remove eleven hotels and hostels from its emergency accommodation list, following a fire at the Exclusive Backpackers, and ask can you provide details of: (a) how many people accessed emergency accommodation at each of the 11 hotels/hostels in each year since 2017; (b) please provide a breakdown of the information provided in (a) by the number of: (i) males; (ii) females; and (iii) people aged: (A) under 18 years; (B) 18 - 25 years; (C) 26 - 35 years; (D) 36 - 65 years; and (E) 66 years plus; and (c) which service providers were contracted to support individuals receiving emergency accommodation at each hotel/hostel?

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Answered

11 August 2020

Responded by

Minister for Community Services

Response time

6 days

(a-c) In order to obtain this information, the Department of Communities would need to conduct a manual search of individual personal case files. This would take significant time and effort and it would be unreasonable to apply operational resources to undertake this task.

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