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MINISTER FOR HOUSING AND COMMUNITY SERVICES

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION

QUESTION NO 1275

Housing Trust - Maintenance Budget

MR CORNWELL - Asked the Minister for Housing and Community Services -

In relation to the Ministers response to Question on Notice No. 1251 that the ACT Housing Trust does not overspend its budget by $3.5 million per year -

(1) How does the Minister explain the discrepancy to reported comments by Mr Ken Horsham Community Times, 10 March 1994, that the Trust budgets $16.5 million per year for maintenance yet within one page of that statement is information that the Trust spends $20 million per annum on maintenance.

(2) Which figure is correct.

MR LAMONT - The answer to the Members question is as follows -

(1) I cannot explain the cause of errors of fact which appear in newspaper articles.

I can only speculate that the newspaper report to which you refer confuses the ACT Housing Trusts annual Repairs and Maintenance budget of $16.406 million (Maintenance $14.045 million and Asset Improvement $2.361 million) with that of the Property Services budget of $2.274 million and the Major Upgrades budget of $0.950 million. The total of these budget items is $19.63 million.

(2) $16.406 million.

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