Hon Simon Ehrenfeld asks about bail grants in WA, specifically regarding individuals charged with multiple offences or offences resulting in serious injury or death. The Attorney General's representative states the information is not readily available and would require significant resources to extract.

AnsweredQoN 206Legislative Council
Asked
18 March 2026
Portfolio
Attorney General

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Bail grants
206. Hon Simon Ehrenfeld to the parliamentary
secretary representing the Attorney General:
I refer to the
granting of bail in Western Australia in the last 12 months.
(1) How many individuals were granted
bail?
(2) How many of those individuals were
charged with multiple unrelated offences?
(3) How many of those individuals were
charged with offences resulting in serious injury to a victim?
(4) How many of those individuals were
charged with offences resulting in the death of a victim?

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I thank the member
for some notice of the question.
(1) Historical information in relation to
bail would need to be manually extracted from the case management system. This
is a resource intensive task requiring diversion of staff from core duties and,
as a result, this information cannot be provided.
(2) The department cannot make a
determination as to whether offences are unrelated.
(3)–(4) Without
manually interrogating every offence in order to compile a list, it is not
possible for the department to provide this data.
Hon Simon Ehrenfeld interjected.
The President: Order! We do not have supplementary
questions in this chamber.

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