❓ A WA parliamentary question seeks clarification on the sources and documentation used by the Minister for Transport during a Matter of Public Interest debate regarding transport modelling. The answer refers to discussion points, memory, publicly available information, and internal documents.
AnsweredQoN 5034Legislative Assembly
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I refer to your answer to Question on Notice of 4849 and ask: (a) are you aware that you quoted from modelling during the Matter of Public Interest (MPI) on 24 November 2015; (b) how many sets of modelling did you quote from during this debate; (c) were these sets of modelling contained in written reports or other written documents: (i) if yes, what was the name of these reports or other written docuements, and who were the authors; and (ii) if yes, did you read these reports prior to referring to them in the MPI on 24 November 2015; and (d) when you quoted from this modeling during the debate on 24 November 2015 did you have them in your possesion, or were you quoting from summaries: (i) if you were quoting from a summary was the summary in writing, and if so, did this document have a title, and who was its author; and (ii) if you did not have the reports in your possesion and did not have summaries prepared from these reports, what were you quoting from during the MPI of 24 November 2015?
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Answered
24 March 2016
Responded by
Minister for Transport
Response time
35 days
(a) A set of discussion points were used for reference as well as from memory.
(b) Various dates was mentioned including rail freight movements, environmental emissions and road traffic volume predictions for various routes.
(c) The information is either publicly available or derived from various sources from a number of internal Main Roads documents, City of Cockburn District Traffic Study 2006 and 2013 City of Cockburn District Traffic Study.
(i)-(ii) Refer to (c).
(d)(i)-(ii) Refer to (a).
(b) Various dates was mentioned including rail freight movements, environmental emissions and road traffic volume predictions for various routes.
(c) The information is either publicly available or derived from various sources from a number of internal Main Roads documents, City of Cockburn District Traffic Study 2006 and 2013 City of Cockburn District Traffic Study.
(i)-(ii) Refer to (c).
(d)(i)-(ii) Refer to (a).
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