❓ A parliamentary question addresses the funding of the Western Australian Weeds Committee, its financial status, future funding prospects, and the adequacy of weed control measures. The Minister provides answers, clarifying the committee's financial situation and future funding plans.
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I refer to the Western Australian Weeds Committee. (1) Why has the committee been allowed to run out of money? (2) By what date will promised funding be paid to the committee? (3) What future funding, if any, is contemplated for the committee? (4) How much of the amount in part (3) is new money that is not part of the previous year’s budget and/or the operational funding of the Department of Agriculture and/or the Department of Conservation and Land Management? (5) Is this considered an adequate response to Western Australia’s weed menace? Hon KIM CHANCE
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I thank the member for some notice of this question. I have an answer but it is in the form I had previously rejected. Although I will provide the answer, I will not provide a written copy of it. (1) The Western Australian Weeds Committee has not run out of money. (2) Not applicable. (3) New funding of $384 000 is being sought over the next three years via the normal budget process. (4) See answer to part (3). (5) It has always been intended that the WA Weeds Committee would play a coordinating role and that the majority of state funding for serious weed prevention and control would continue to flow to relevant agencies. Therefore, the WA Weeds Committee funding proposal represents a small but important part of funding for weed control.
(1) Why has the committee been allowed to run out of money? (2) By what date will promised funding be paid to the committee? (3) What future funding, if any, is contemplated for the committee? (4) How much of the amount in part (3) is new money that is not part of the previous year’s budget and/or the operational funding of the Department of Agriculture and/or the Department of Conservation and Land Management? (5) Is this considered an adequate response to Western Australia’s weed menace? Hon KIM CHANCE replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. I have an answer but it is in the form I had previously rejected. Although I will provide the answer, I will not provide a written copy of it. (1) The Western Australian Weeds Committee has not run out of money. (2) Not applicable. (3) New funding of $384 000 is being sought over the next three years via the normal budget process. (4) See answer to part (3). (5) It has always been intended that the WA Weeds Committee would play a coordinating role and that the majority of state funding for serious weed prevention and control would continue to flow to relevant agencies. Therefore, the WA Weeds Committee funding proposal represents a small but important part of funding for weed control.
(2) By what date will promised funding be paid to the committee? (3) What future funding, if any, is contemplated for the committee? (4) How much of the amount in part (3) is new money that is not part of the previous year’s budget and/or the operational funding of the Department of Agriculture and/or the Department of Conservation and Land Management? (5) Is this considered an adequate response to Western Australia’s weed menace? Hon KIM CHANCE replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. I have an answer but it is in the form I had previously rejected. Although I will provide the answer, I will not provide a written copy of it. (1) The Western Australian Weeds Committee has not run out of money. (2) Not applicable. (3) New funding of $384 000 is being sought over the next three years via the normal budget process. (4) See answer to part (3). (5) It has always been intended that the WA Weeds Committee would play a coordinating role and that the majority of state funding for serious weed prevention and control would continue to flow to relevant agencies. Therefore, the WA Weeds Committee funding proposal represents a small but important part of funding for weed control.
(3) What future funding, if any, is contemplated for the committee? (4) How much of the amount in part (3) is new money that is not part of the previous year’s budget and/or the operational funding of the Department of Agriculture and/or the Department of Conservation and Land Management? (5) Is this considered an adequate response to Western Australia’s weed menace? Hon KIM CHANCE replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. I have an answer but it is in the form I had previously rejected. Although I will provide the answer, I will not provide a written copy of it. (1) The Western Australian Weeds Committee has not run out of money. (2) Not applicable. (3) New funding of $384 000 is being sought over the next three years via the normal budget process. (4) See answer to part (3). (5) It has always been intended that the WA Weeds Committee would play a coordinating role and that the majority of state funding for serious weed prevention and control would continue to flow to relevant agencies. Therefore, the WA Weeds Committee funding proposal represents a small but important part of funding for weed control.
(4) How much of the amount in part (3) is new money that is not part of the previous year’s budget and/or the operational funding of the Department of Agriculture and/or the Department of Conservation and Land Management? (5) Is this considered an adequate response to Western Australia’s weed menace? Hon KIM CHANCE replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. I have an answer but it is in the form I had previously rejected. Although I will provide the answer, I will not provide a written copy of it. (1) The Western Australian Weeds Committee has not run out of money. (2) Not applicable. (3) New funding of $384 000 is being sought over the next three years via the normal budget process. (4) See answer to part (3). (5) It has always been intended that the WA Weeds Committee would play a coordinating role and that the majority of state funding for serious weed prevention and control would continue to flow to relevant agencies. Therefore, the WA Weeds Committee funding proposal represents a small but important part of funding for weed control.
(5) Is this considered an adequate response to Western Australia’s weed menace? Hon KIM CHANCE replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. I have an answer but it is in the form I had previously rejected. Although I will provide the answer, I will not provide a written copy of it. (1) The Western Australian Weeds Committee has not run out of money. (2) Not applicable. (3) New funding of $384 000 is being sought over the next three years via the normal budget process. (4) See answer to part (3). (5) It has always been intended that the WA Weeds Committee would play a coordinating role and that the majority of state funding for serious weed prevention and control would continue to flow to relevant agencies. Therefore, the WA Weeds Committee funding proposal represents a small but important part of funding for weed control.
Hon KIM CHANCE replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. I have an answer but it is in the form I had previously rejected. Although I will provide the answer, I will not provide a written copy of it. (1) The Western Australian Weeds Committee has not run out of money. (2) Not applicable. (3) New funding of $384 000 is being sought over the next three years via the normal budget process. (4) See answer to part (3). (5) It has always been intended that the WA Weeds Committee would play a coordinating role and that the majority of state funding for serious weed prevention and control would continue to flow to relevant agencies. Therefore, the WA Weeds Committee funding proposal represents a small but important part of funding for weed control.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. I have an answer but it is in the form I had previously rejected. Although I will provide the answer, I will not provide a written copy of it. (1) The Western Australian Weeds Committee has not run out of money. (2) Not applicable. (3) New funding of $384 000 is being sought over the next three years via the normal budget process. (4) See answer to part (3). (5) It has always been intended that the WA Weeds Committee would play a coordinating role and that the majority of state funding for serious weed prevention and control would continue to flow to relevant agencies. Therefore, the WA Weeds Committee funding proposal represents a small but important part of funding for weed control.
(1) The Western Australian Weeds Committee has not run out of money. (2) Not applicable. (3) New funding of $384 000 is being sought over the next three years via the normal budget process. (4) See answer to part (3). (5) It has always been intended that the WA Weeds Committee would play a coordinating role and that the majority of state funding for serious weed prevention and control would continue to flow to relevant agencies. Therefore, the WA Weeds Committee funding proposal represents a small but important part of funding for weed control.
(2) Not applicable. (3) New funding of $384 000 is being sought over the next three years via the normal budget process. (4) See answer to part (3). (5) It has always been intended that the WA Weeds Committee would play a coordinating role and that the majority of state funding for serious weed prevention and control would continue to flow to relevant agencies. Therefore, the WA Weeds Committee funding proposal represents a small but important part of funding for weed control.
(3) New funding of $384 000 is being sought over the next three years via the normal budget process. (4) See answer to part (3). (5) It has always been intended that the WA Weeds Committee would play a coordinating role and that the majority of state funding for serious weed prevention and control would continue to flow to relevant agencies. Therefore, the WA Weeds Committee funding proposal represents a small but important part of funding for weed control.
(4) See answer to part (3). (5) It has always been intended that the WA Weeds Committee would play a coordinating role and that the majority of state funding for serious weed prevention and control would continue to flow to relevant agencies. Therefore, the WA Weeds Committee funding proposal represents a small but important part of funding for weed control.
(5) It has always been intended that the WA Weeds Committee would play a coordinating role and that the majority of state funding for serious weed prevention and control would continue to flow to relevant agencies. Therefore, the WA Weeds Committee funding proposal represents a small but important part of funding for weed control.
(1) Why has the committee been allowed to run out of money? (2) By what date will promised funding be paid to the committee? (3) What future funding, if any, is contemplated for the committee? (4) How much of the amount in part (3) is new money that is not part of the previous year’s budget and/or the operational funding of the Department of Agriculture and/or the Department of Conservation and Land Management? (5) Is this considered an adequate response to Western Australia’s weed menace? Hon KIM CHANCE replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. I have an answer but it is in the form I had previously rejected. Although I will provide the answer, I will not provide a written copy of it. (1) The Western Australian Weeds Committee has not run out of money. (2) Not applicable. (3) New funding of $384 000 is being sought over the next three years via the normal budget process. (4) See answer to part (3). (5) It has always been intended that the WA Weeds Committee would play a coordinating role and that the majority of state funding for serious weed prevention and control would continue to flow to relevant agencies. Therefore, the WA Weeds Committee funding proposal represents a small but important part of funding for weed control.
(2) By what date will promised funding be paid to the committee? (3) What future funding, if any, is contemplated for the committee? (4) How much of the amount in part (3) is new money that is not part of the previous year’s budget and/or the operational funding of the Department of Agriculture and/or the Department of Conservation and Land Management? (5) Is this considered an adequate response to Western Australia’s weed menace? Hon KIM CHANCE replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. I have an answer but it is in the form I had previously rejected. Although I will provide the answer, I will not provide a written copy of it. (1) The Western Australian Weeds Committee has not run out of money. (2) Not applicable. (3) New funding of $384 000 is being sought over the next three years via the normal budget process. (4) See answer to part (3). (5) It has always been intended that the WA Weeds Committee would play a coordinating role and that the majority of state funding for serious weed prevention and control would continue to flow to relevant agencies. Therefore, the WA Weeds Committee funding proposal represents a small but important part of funding for weed control.
(3) What future funding, if any, is contemplated for the committee? (4) How much of the amount in part (3) is new money that is not part of the previous year’s budget and/or the operational funding of the Department of Agriculture and/or the Department of Conservation and Land Management? (5) Is this considered an adequate response to Western Australia’s weed menace? Hon KIM CHANCE replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. I have an answer but it is in the form I had previously rejected. Although I will provide the answer, I will not provide a written copy of it. (1) The Western Australian Weeds Committee has not run out of money. (2) Not applicable. (3) New funding of $384 000 is being sought over the next three years via the normal budget process. (4) See answer to part (3). (5) It has always been intended that the WA Weeds Committee would play a coordinating role and that the majority of state funding for serious weed prevention and control would continue to flow to relevant agencies. Therefore, the WA Weeds Committee funding proposal represents a small but important part of funding for weed control.
(4) How much of the amount in part (3) is new money that is not part of the previous year’s budget and/or the operational funding of the Department of Agriculture and/or the Department of Conservation and Land Management? (5) Is this considered an adequate response to Western Australia’s weed menace? Hon KIM CHANCE replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. I have an answer but it is in the form I had previously rejected. Although I will provide the answer, I will not provide a written copy of it. (1) The Western Australian Weeds Committee has not run out of money. (2) Not applicable. (3) New funding of $384 000 is being sought over the next three years via the normal budget process. (4) See answer to part (3). (5) It has always been intended that the WA Weeds Committee would play a coordinating role and that the majority of state funding for serious weed prevention and control would continue to flow to relevant agencies. Therefore, the WA Weeds Committee funding proposal represents a small but important part of funding for weed control.
(5) Is this considered an adequate response to Western Australia’s weed menace? Hon KIM CHANCE replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. I have an answer but it is in the form I had previously rejected. Although I will provide the answer, I will not provide a written copy of it. (1) The Western Australian Weeds Committee has not run out of money. (2) Not applicable. (3) New funding of $384 000 is being sought over the next three years via the normal budget process. (4) See answer to part (3). (5) It has always been intended that the WA Weeds Committee would play a coordinating role and that the majority of state funding for serious weed prevention and control would continue to flow to relevant agencies. Therefore, the WA Weeds Committee funding proposal represents a small but important part of funding for weed control.
Hon KIM CHANCE replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. I have an answer but it is in the form I had previously rejected. Although I will provide the answer, I will not provide a written copy of it. (1) The Western Australian Weeds Committee has not run out of money. (2) Not applicable. (3) New funding of $384 000 is being sought over the next three years via the normal budget process. (4) See answer to part (3). (5) It has always been intended that the WA Weeds Committee would play a coordinating role and that the majority of state funding for serious weed prevention and control would continue to flow to relevant agencies. Therefore, the WA Weeds Committee funding proposal represents a small but important part of funding for weed control.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. I have an answer but it is in the form I had previously rejected. Although I will provide the answer, I will not provide a written copy of it. (1) The Western Australian Weeds Committee has not run out of money. (2) Not applicable. (3) New funding of $384 000 is being sought over the next three years via the normal budget process. (4) See answer to part (3). (5) It has always been intended that the WA Weeds Committee would play a coordinating role and that the majority of state funding for serious weed prevention and control would continue to flow to relevant agencies. Therefore, the WA Weeds Committee funding proposal represents a small but important part of funding for weed control.
(1) The Western Australian Weeds Committee has not run out of money. (2) Not applicable. (3) New funding of $384 000 is being sought over the next three years via the normal budget process. (4) See answer to part (3). (5) It has always been intended that the WA Weeds Committee would play a coordinating role and that the majority of state funding for serious weed prevention and control would continue to flow to relevant agencies. Therefore, the WA Weeds Committee funding proposal represents a small but important part of funding for weed control.
(2) Not applicable. (3) New funding of $384 000 is being sought over the next three years via the normal budget process. (4) See answer to part (3). (5) It has always been intended that the WA Weeds Committee would play a coordinating role and that the majority of state funding for serious weed prevention and control would continue to flow to relevant agencies. Therefore, the WA Weeds Committee funding proposal represents a small but important part of funding for weed control.
(3) New funding of $384 000 is being sought over the next three years via the normal budget process. (4) See answer to part (3). (5) It has always been intended that the WA Weeds Committee would play a coordinating role and that the majority of state funding for serious weed prevention and control would continue to flow to relevant agencies. Therefore, the WA Weeds Committee funding proposal represents a small but important part of funding for weed control.
(4) See answer to part (3). (5) It has always been intended that the WA Weeds Committee would play a coordinating role and that the majority of state funding for serious weed prevention and control would continue to flow to relevant agencies. Therefore, the WA Weeds Committee funding proposal represents a small but important part of funding for weed control.
(5) It has always been intended that the WA Weeds Committee would play a coordinating role and that the majority of state funding for serious weed prevention and control would continue to flow to relevant agencies. Therefore, the WA Weeds Committee funding proposal represents a small but important part of funding for weed control.
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