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MINISTER FOR HEALTH

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION

QUESTION 588

Private Hospital in Belconnen

Mr Humphries - asked the Minister for Health:

With regard to the answer to question on notice No. 432 in which the Minister for Health said that the number of expressions of interest received from the Belconnen private hospital project could not be divulged because the information was "commercial-inconfidence"

(1) What guidelines has the Minister used to determine that the number of expressions of interest is a matter that is "commercial-in-confidence".

(2) What precedent exists that suggests that the number of expressions received by the government can be deemed as a matter that is "commercial-in-confidence".

(3) If the number of expressions of interest received is revealed, in what way will it commercially affect the companies or organisations that have put in an expression of interest.

Mr Berry - The answer to Mr Humphries question is:

1. I have now released the information on the number of expressions of interest to the Estimates Committee.

2. Four expressions of interest were received.

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