Housing Authority

515 Ms COOK (Hurtle Vale) (9 June 2021). What was the approved annual maintenance budget for the SA Housing Authority in each of the financial years: 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2020-21?

(a) What was the actual maintenance expenditure for the SA Housing Authority in each of the five years referred to above (with expenditure for 2020-21 being expenditure up to and including the date of this question)?

(b) How does the minister reconcile budgeted and actual maintenance expenditure with the minister's public comments regarding the agency's $115 million annual maintenance budget?

(c) What are the differences between the actual maintenance expenditure (provided in response to these questions) and those included in the SA Housing Authority's audited financial statements (signed by both the chief executive and chair of the board)? Can the minister please provide an explanation that reconciles any differences?

The Hon. V.A. CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Premier, Attorney-General, Minister for Planning and Local Government): The Minister for Human Services has provided the following advice:

(a) SA Housing Authority’s total expenditure for maintenance on housing stock it manages was:

Budget and expenditure figures exclude stimulus and refurbishment programs.

Expenditure figures as at 31 May 2021.

(b) The budget for annual maintenance programs (capital and recurrent) for public and state Owned and Managed Indigenous Housing averages $115 million per year for the past four years. This does not include additional housing stimulus spending or other specific maintenance programs/projects.

(c) Maintenance figures published in the South Australian Housing Trust’s audited financial statements relate to recurrent (expensed) maintenance and do not include capital maintenance spending, neither for the annual capital program nor for other capital maintenance projects.