Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee, , 9:02:23 to 9:06:42
Officials provide an update on the Urban Precincts and Partnerships Program, including successful project announcements, application volumes, and unallocated funding.
Topics: Infrastructure, Grants administration
Speakers: Hon James McGrath, Lisa Rauter, Unknown Speaker
You're back. Iron back. I'd like to go to the urban precincts and partnership program, please. Uh the minister announced eight successful projects under the urban precincts and partnerships program on the 30th of September of this year. Uh during the May estimates the department said the minister had received the list of batch three projects for approval that morning. Can you confirm that the eight successful projects that were announced by the minister were from that list?
>> Yes, that's correct.
>> Okay. Are there any more projects awaiting approval or have all successful projects been announced?
>> All successful projects have been announced.
the website at the moment says um I quote it's paused to new application new new applications. Last time when we had a discussion about you said that the the batch of projects you sent up to the minister were the final batch as such. Has the program concluded?
Uh so there as far as we are aware that was the final batch of the program both for urban pre um precincts and partnerships program and also the regional precincts and partnerships program. Um so as far as we're aware that is um unless government makes a future decision that I'm not aware of um that is the end of the program.
>> Okay. What is the total figure of approved projects
>> for urban precincts and partnerships?
>> Yes, I'm just I'm just at the moment focusing on urban precincts and the urban precincts and partnership program
>> 120.4 million.
Do you have a the figure of what is the total value of applications received by the department for the urban precincts and partnership program?
>> Uh yes I do. The total value of the applications received um was 3.59. No that's hang on sorry sec. Uh the total value was 1.78 billion. And then >> that was the funding sort.
>> So you've said that um there's $124 million. My understanding was $150 million was allocated to the program.
>> That's right.
so there's $26 million.
>> There's $29.6 million unallocated.
so what's going to happen to that money?
>> Uh that will be a decision for
Um in relation to the program, was any of the money uh spent on administering the program in terms of the the figure you gave earlier?
>> Not as part of those numbers I just gave you. That was purely for program delivery. Okay. um the department was appropriated money to administer the program separately to that.
>> I just I just um I didn't write it down. So the figure is 29
>> 29.6 million was is unallocated.
>> Can the can the department confirm for this is obviously we're just focusing on urban precincts partnership program. Can the department confirm the geographic eligibility requirements for