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  <name>House of Assembly</name>
  <date date="2021-02-04" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>54</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>2</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
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  <dateModified time="2022-08-06T14:30:00+00:00" />
  <proceeding continued="true">
    <name>Estimates Replies</name>
    <subject>
      <name>HomeStart</name>
      <text id="20210204a5f3503c7b2545f490001710">
        <inserted>
          <heading>HomeStart</heading>
        </inserted>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="4842" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Lee</electorate>
        <questions>
          <question date="2021-02-04">
            <name>HomeStart</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <text id="20210204a5f3503c7b2545f490001711">
          <inserted>In reply to <by role="member" id="4842">the Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN (Lee)</by> (25 November 2020).  (Estimates Committee B)</inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="">
        <name>The Hon. R.I. LUCAS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Treasurer</electorate>
        <text id="20210204a5f3503c7b2545f490001712">
          <inserted>
            <by role="member" id="">The Hon. R.I. LUCAS (Treasurer):</by>  I have been advised the following:</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20210204a5f3503c7b2545f490001713">
          <inserted>HomeStart holds data about customers who it is estimated may be able to get regular bank finance at the time of settlement, and subsequent loan discharges.  </inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20210204a5f3503c7b2545f490001714">
          <inserted>In 2019-20, 159 loans were discharged where it was estimated at the time of settlement (since 2016) they could have possibly obtained finance elsewhere.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20210204a5f3503c7b2545f490001715">
          <inserted>The below multi-year analysis shows that for loans older than three years, on average 55 per cent of those customers who could have possibly obtained finance elsewhere at the time they sought finance from HomeStart have already discharged their loan.'</inserted>
        </text>
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          <inserted>
            <table>
              <rowtitle>
                <cell />
                <cell />
                <cell colspan="6">Year of Discharge</cell>
                <cell />
                <cell />
              </rowtitle>
              <row>
                <cell>Year of settlement</cell>
                <cell>Total settled</cell>
                <cell>2016</cell>
                <cell>2017</cell>
                <cell>2018</cell>
                <cell>2019</cell>
                <cell>2020</cell>
                <cell>2021</cell>
                <cell>Total discharged</cell>
                <cell>% discharged</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>2016</cell>
                <cell>155</cell>
                <cell>8</cell>
                <cell>22</cell>
                <cell>24</cell>
                <cell>15</cell>
                <cell>15</cell>
                <cell>5</cell>
                <cell>89</cell>
                <cell>57%*</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>2017</cell>
                <cell>181</cell>
                <cell />
                <cell>5</cell>
                <cell>31</cell>
                <cell>29</cell>
                <cell>36</cell>
                <cell>15</cell>
                <cell>116</cell>
                <cell>64%*</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>2018</cell>
                <cell>236</cell>
                <cell />
                <cell />
                <cell>7</cell>
                <cell>24</cell>
                <cell>56</cell>
                <cell>16</cell>
                <cell>103</cell>
                <cell>44%*</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>2019</cell>
                <cell>212</cell>
                <cell />
                <cell />
                <cell />
                <cell>8</cell>
                <cell>45</cell>
                <cell>21</cell>
                <cell>74</cell>
                <cell>35%</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>2020</cell>
                <cell>211</cell>
                <cell />
                <cell />
                <cell />
                <cell />
                <cell>7</cell>
                <cell>13</cell>
                <cell>20</cell>
                <cell>9%</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>Total discharged</cell>
                <cell />
                <cell>8</cell>
                <cell>27</cell>
                <cell>62</cell>
                <cell>76</cell>
                <cell>159</cell>
                <cell>70</cell>
                <cell>402</cell>
                <cell />
              </row>
            </table>
          </inserted>
        </text>
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        <text continued="true" id="20210204a5f3503c7b2545f490001718">
          <inserted>* Average = 55 per cent</inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
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