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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2020-06-04" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>54</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>2</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
  <house>Legislative Council</house>
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  <dateModified time="2022-08-06T14:30:00+00:00" />
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Small Business Grants</name>
      <page num="991" />
      <text id="2020060403fd7d4910ec4acdb0000708">
        <inserted>
          <heading>Small Business Grants</heading>
        </inserted>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="5412" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <questions>
          <question date="2020-06-04">
            <name>Small Business Grants</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <text id="2020060403fd7d4910ec4acdb0000709">
          <inserted>In reply to <by role="member" id="5412">the Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN </by>(14 May 2020).  </inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="605" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. R.I. LUCAS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <questions>
          <question date="2020-06-04">
            <name>Small Business Grants</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <text id="2020060403fd7d4910ec4acdb0000710">
          <inserted>
            <by role="member" id="605">The Hon. R.I. LUCAS (Treasurer):</by>  I have been provided the following advice:</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="2020060403fd7d4910ec4acdb0000711">
          <inserted>Under the small business grant guidelines, if a business has received any other government of South Australia grants to address COVID-19 related business impacts, the value of these payment(s) will be deducted from the $10,000 small business grant.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="2020060403fd7d4910ec4acdb0000712">
          <inserted>As at 19 May 2020 over 5,000 small business grants had been paid, of these 51 applicants had been approved for a payment of less than $10,000. </inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="2020060403fd7d4910ec4acdb0000713">
          <inserted>In each of these cases, the total of state government COVID-19 related grants paid was $10,000.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="2020060403fd7d4910ec4acdb0000714">
          <inserted>Forty nine of these successful applicants had received financial support from the South Australian Tourism Commission; one had received a taxi industry ex gratia payment; and one had received COVID-19 related vocational education and training funding available to registered training organisations.</inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
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