Legislative Council - Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)
2020-05-14 Daily Xml

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Small Business Grants

The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (15:00): Supplementary: can the Treasurer advise whether small businesses who have received other support through either state or federal government will therefore have the amount of that emergency grant relief reduced by the equivalent number or affected in any other way?

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS (Treasurer) (15:00): Certainly, the eligibility criteria in relation to the state grants doesn't take into account the federal government grants. We don't have, I guess, line of sight other than we know they have to be eligible for JobKeeper for example. So, if they are eligible for JobKeeper, we don't deduct the amount of money they've got from JobKeeper from the $10,000 grant scheme.