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❓ Dr. Nahan inquires about the details of the Department of Communities' Cost of Living Project, including its purpose, duration, and participants. The answer clarifies the project's objective to quantify cost of living differences and its expected completion date.

AnsweredQoN 2620Legislative Assembly

Asked

13 March 2018

Member

Dr M.D. Nahan

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Housing

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Please provide details (what the project is, what the purpose of the project is, how long the project is anticipated to last, how many participants in the project there are, etc.) on the Cost of Living Project for which a contract, Reference Number: DCP201756, for a consultant to work on this project has been put out for tender?

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Answered

8 May 2018

Responded by

Minister for Housing

Response time

9 days

The Cost of Living Project is a work stream of the Essential and Municipal Services Upgrade Program being undertaken by the Department of Communities. The key objective of the project is to quantify the cost of living differences between Perth, regional towns and remote Aboriginal communities for various household structure types to help determine household capacity to pay for basic services. The project is expected to run until the end of 2018. Participants involved in planning and scoping are internal to the Department of Communities and Novelle Consulting.

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