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MINISTER FOR HOUSING AND COMMUNITY SERVICES

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION

QUESTION NO 1455

Environment, Land and Planning Portfolio -

Field Officers Houses

MR CORNWELL: Asked the Minister for Housing and Community Services -In relation to the response to question on notice No 1316 -

(1) Were the occupiers employees of the Department of the Environment, Land and Planning when they became tenants in these houses.

(2) Were the occupiers eligible for ACT Housing Trust accommodation by the Trusts usual eligibility criteria when they became tenants in these houses.

(3) How long have the occupiers of these three houses been Trust tenants.

(4) What is the status of the applications to buy or change the leases of these houses at 8 November 1994.

(5) Are the occupiers of these houses still employees of the Department and are they still eligible for Trust accommodation under the usual eligibility criteria. (Redirected 29 November 1994)

MR LAMONT: The answer to the Members question is as follows -

(1) The occupiers of these houses were Government employees at the time when they became tenants in these houses.

(2) At the time when the occupiers of these houses became tenants, the houses were Government housing provided for Government employees as part of their conditions of employment. The houses were not transferred to the ACT Housing Trust until 16 September 1987.

(3) The occupiers of these three houses have been Trust tenants since the date of the transfer of these houses to the Housing Trust.

(4) The status of the applications is that the applications for leases for Blocks 40 and 57 Stromlo and Block 1 Section 33 Pialligo have been approved. The application for the lease of Block 556 Majura is still under consideration.

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