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❓ Mr Wyatt questions the Treasurer regarding the components of WA's projected net debt for 2022-23 and the impact of the solar feed-in tariff decision on that debt. The Treasurer provides a partial answer, quantifying the general government sector's debt but unable to quantify the tariff decision's impact.

AnsweredQoN 1097Legislative Assembly

Asked

10 September 2013

Member

Mr B.S. Wyatt

Portfolio

Treasurer

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I refer to the table entitled Long-term Financial Projections and the Fiscal Action Plan’ on page 74 of the 2013–2014 Economic and Fiscal Outlook and I ask: (a) in respect of the net debt component of the financial projections for 2022–2023 (in the Base Case), what is the component of the $47.3 billion in net debt that is assumed to be held in the general government sector; and (b) what is the impact of the Government’s decision to not proceed with the decision to halve the solar feed-in tariff on the projected net debt position in the Base Case by 2022–2023?

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Answered

16 October 2013

Responded by

Hon T.R. Buswell

Response time

36 days

The Department of Treasury advises:
(a) $24.0 billion
(b)Treasury is unable to quantify these estimates in any detail without further enhancements to its long term models.

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