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Parliamentary Questions


Question Without Notice No. 838 asked in the Legislative Council on 20 August 2020 by Hon Diane Evers

Parliament: 40 Session: 1

FOREST PRODUCTS COMMISSION — 2018–19 ANNUAL REPORT

838. Hon DIANE EVERS to the minister representing the Minister for Forestry:

I refer to errors in the Forest Products Commission 2018–19 annual report on log production statistics from crown land and private property; that is, that ''Sub-total native forest other'' on page 135 has been corrected in correspondence to a constituent.

(1) Are the statistics for log production from crown land and private property for 2019–20 now correctly being reported in the FPC's 2019–20 annual report?

(2) Will the minister please table the corrected historical statistics; and, if not, why not?

(3) What is the minister now doing to ensure statistics are correct in reporting?

(4) Given the errors, will the minister also request the FPC include in its annual report for three comparative years, as reported in the previous annual reports —

(a) native forest chip log production;

(b) native forest fuelwood production; and

(c) sandalwood production?

(5) If no to (4), why not?

Hon ALANNAH MacTIERNAN replied:

I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. The following information has been provided by the Minister for Forestry.

(1) The 2019–20 statistics are currently being prepared.

(2) Yes. I table the information.

[See paper 4142.]

(3) Reporting processes have been revised to increase validation of statistics.

(4) No.

(5) This data is available for each individual year in annual reports available on the Forest Products Commission's website.