❓ Question on Notice regarding the Serco contract for the young adult corrections facility at Rangeview Remand Centre. The Minister answers questions about the tendering process and public sector cost comparator.
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YOUNG ADULT CORRECTIONS FACILITY — SERCO CONTRACT
I hope the minister can answer some more questions about Rangeview Remand Centre. I refer to question without notice 527 on 31 August this year when the minister refused to answer my question about the privatisation of the new young adult facility at Rangeview, and again I ask — (1) How many other companies tendered for this prison contract other than the successful bidder Serco? (2) Did the government receive external advice regarding the development of the public sector cost comparator; and, if so, from whom? (3) Will the minister now table the public sector cost comparator? Mr D.T. REDMAN
I hope the minister can answer some more questions about Rangeview Remand Centre. I refer to question without notice 527 on 31 August this year when the minister refused to answer my question about the privatisation of the new young adult facility at Rangeview, and again I ask — (1) How many other companies tendered for this prison contract other than the successful bidder Serco? (2) Did the government receive external advice regarding the development of the public sector cost comparator; and, if so, from whom? (3) Will the minister now table the public sector cost comparator? Mr D.T. REDMAN
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(1)–(3) Yes, I do recall the question that the member for Cockburn raised. Mr F.M. Logan : You should do; you never answered it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : Pardon? Mr F.M. Logan : You never answered it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : Member, I was not in a position to answer that question. The other point I made was that there had not been a decision made at that time by cabinet. Mr F.M. Logan : You knew all about it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : It was an issue that in my view needed to go before cabinet. It did go before cabinet on Monday and cabinet made a decision, so the circumstances have considerably changed since I last got a question. The question the member for Cockburn asked was how many tenderers there were. I will answer that outright that there was one. One tender was put in that met the time frame. A number were leading up to that point, but only one was considered in the context of government. Mr F.M. Logan : And who was that? Mr D.T. REDMAN : That is a tough question, member! Who was that? Important, therefore, in cabinet deliberations were a couple of things: first, the comparison with a public sector comparator. Mr F.M. Logan : How do we get somebody else to bid? Mr D.T. REDMAN : I can highlight to the member that it was a very robust process whereby if we were to make a decision around a single tenderer in this case, we had to have a robust public sector comparator to make the comparison—and we did. Although I cannot outline to the house the benefit to the state, because we are still in a process of negotiations to finalise the due diligence process, I can say that it is a significant benefit to the state. We have a target to get the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia. Mr F.M. Logan : In relation to part (2) of the question, which company advised you? Mr D.T. REDMAN : In terms of the work that was done, DCS, the Department of Treasury and the Department of Finance worked through a very robust process to make the comparisons with the public sector comparator to ensure that what is put up stands up to all the formal requirements that government needs to have in place to be assured of for running and managing our prisons. We have confidence that Serco will stand up within the corrective services system. We already have Acacia Prison being run by Serco, which, interestingly, is a position that I think was supported by the Labor Party when it was in government. I also heard on the radio today the Leader of the Opposition carrying on about privatisation. We have made one decision in corrective services additional to the decisions made by Labor in the court security and custodial services process, and members opposite supported that. Labor supported Acacia being run by the private sector twice! We also put in place a capital works program for two new prisons—Eastern Goldfields to be run by the Department of Corrective Services and the West Kimberley prison to be run by the Department of Corrective Services. There is no government here charging down the path of privatisation. We are picking the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia, and we are picking the best outcomes to deliver a service to the people in our prison system.
(1) How many other companies tendered for this prison contract other than the successful bidder Serco? (2) Did the government receive external advice regarding the development of the public sector cost comparator; and, if so, from whom? (3) Will the minister now table the public sector cost comparator? Mr D.T. REDMAN replied: (1)–(3) Yes, I do recall the question that the member for Cockburn raised. Mr F.M. Logan : You should do; you never answered it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : Pardon? Mr F.M. Logan : You never answered it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : Member, I was not in a position to answer that question. The other point I made was that there had not been a decision made at that time by cabinet. Mr F.M. Logan : You knew all about it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : It was an issue that in my view needed to go before cabinet. It did go before cabinet on Monday and cabinet made a decision, so the circumstances have considerably changed since I last got a question. The question the member for Cockburn asked was how many tenderers there were. I will answer that outright that there was one. One tender was put in that met the time frame. A number were leading up to that point, but only one was considered in the context of government. Mr F.M. Logan : And who was that? Mr D.T. REDMAN : That is a tough question, member! Who was that? Important, therefore, in cabinet deliberations were a couple of things: first, the comparison with a public sector comparator. Mr F.M. Logan : How do we get somebody else to bid? Mr D.T. REDMAN : I can highlight to the member that it was a very robust process whereby if we were to make a decision around a single tenderer in this case, we had to have a robust public sector comparator to make the comparison—and we did. Although I cannot outline to the house the benefit to the state, because we are still in a process of negotiations to finalise the due diligence process, I can say that it is a significant benefit to the state. We have a target to get the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia. Mr F.M. Logan : In relation to part (2) of the question, which company advised you? Mr D.T. REDMAN : In terms of the work that was done, DCS, the Department of Treasury and the Department of Finance worked through a very robust process to make the comparisons with the public sector comparator to ensure that what is put up stands up to all the formal requirements that government needs to have in place to be assured of for running and managing our prisons. We have confidence that Serco will stand up within the corrective services system. We already have Acacia Prison being run by Serco, which, interestingly, is a position that I think was supported by the Labor Party when it was in government. I also heard on the radio today the Leader of the Opposition carrying on about privatisation. We have made one decision in corrective services additional to the decisions made by Labor in the court security and custodial services process, and members opposite supported that. Labor supported Acacia being run by the private sector twice! We also put in place a capital works program for two new prisons—Eastern Goldfields to be run by the Department of Corrective Services and the West Kimberley prison to be run by the Department of Corrective Services. There is no government here charging down the path of privatisation. We are picking the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia, and we are picking the best outcomes to deliver a service to the people in our prison system.
(2) Did the government receive external advice regarding the development of the public sector cost comparator; and, if so, from whom? (3) Will the minister now table the public sector cost comparator? Mr D.T. REDMAN replied: (1)–(3) Yes, I do recall the question that the member for Cockburn raised. Mr F.M. Logan : You should do; you never answered it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : Pardon? Mr F.M. Logan : You never answered it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : Member, I was not in a position to answer that question. The other point I made was that there had not been a decision made at that time by cabinet. Mr F.M. Logan : You knew all about it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : It was an issue that in my view needed to go before cabinet. It did go before cabinet on Monday and cabinet made a decision, so the circumstances have considerably changed since I last got a question. The question the member for Cockburn asked was how many tenderers there were. I will answer that outright that there was one. One tender was put in that met the time frame. A number were leading up to that point, but only one was considered in the context of government. Mr F.M. Logan : And who was that? Mr D.T. REDMAN : That is a tough question, member! Who was that? Important, therefore, in cabinet deliberations were a couple of things: first, the comparison with a public sector comparator. Mr F.M. Logan : How do we get somebody else to bid? Mr D.T. REDMAN : I can highlight to the member that it was a very robust process whereby if we were to make a decision around a single tenderer in this case, we had to have a robust public sector comparator to make the comparison—and we did. Although I cannot outline to the house the benefit to the state, because we are still in a process of negotiations to finalise the due diligence process, I can say that it is a significant benefit to the state. We have a target to get the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia. Mr F.M. Logan : In relation to part (2) of the question, which company advised you? Mr D.T. REDMAN : In terms of the work that was done, DCS, the Department of Treasury and the Department of Finance worked through a very robust process to make the comparisons with the public sector comparator to ensure that what is put up stands up to all the formal requirements that government needs to have in place to be assured of for running and managing our prisons. We have confidence that Serco will stand up within the corrective services system. We already have Acacia Prison being run by Serco, which, interestingly, is a position that I think was supported by the Labor Party when it was in government. I also heard on the radio today the Leader of the Opposition carrying on about privatisation. We have made one decision in corrective services additional to the decisions made by Labor in the court security and custodial services process, and members opposite supported that. Labor supported Acacia being run by the private sector twice! We also put in place a capital works program for two new prisons—Eastern Goldfields to be run by the Department of Corrective Services and the West Kimberley prison to be run by the Department of Corrective Services. There is no government here charging down the path of privatisation. We are picking the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia, and we are picking the best outcomes to deliver a service to the people in our prison system.
(3) Will the minister now table the public sector cost comparator? Mr D.T. REDMAN replied: (1)–(3) Yes, I do recall the question that the member for Cockburn raised. Mr F.M. Logan : You should do; you never answered it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : Pardon? Mr F.M. Logan : You never answered it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : Member, I was not in a position to answer that question. The other point I made was that there had not been a decision made at that time by cabinet. Mr F.M. Logan : You knew all about it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : It was an issue that in my view needed to go before cabinet. It did go before cabinet on Monday and cabinet made a decision, so the circumstances have considerably changed since I last got a question. The question the member for Cockburn asked was how many tenderers there were. I will answer that outright that there was one. One tender was put in that met the time frame. A number were leading up to that point, but only one was considered in the context of government. Mr F.M. Logan : And who was that? Mr D.T. REDMAN : That is a tough question, member! Who was that? Important, therefore, in cabinet deliberations were a couple of things: first, the comparison with a public sector comparator. Mr F.M. Logan : How do we get somebody else to bid? Mr D.T. REDMAN : I can highlight to the member that it was a very robust process whereby if we were to make a decision around a single tenderer in this case, we had to have a robust public sector comparator to make the comparison—and we did. Although I cannot outline to the house the benefit to the state, because we are still in a process of negotiations to finalise the due diligence process, I can say that it is a significant benefit to the state. We have a target to get the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia. Mr F.M. Logan : In relation to part (2) of the question, which company advised you? Mr D.T. REDMAN : In terms of the work that was done, DCS, the Department of Treasury and the Department of Finance worked through a very robust process to make the comparisons with the public sector comparator to ensure that what is put up stands up to all the formal requirements that government needs to have in place to be assured of for running and managing our prisons. We have confidence that Serco will stand up within the corrective services system. We already have Acacia Prison being run by Serco, which, interestingly, is a position that I think was supported by the Labor Party when it was in government. I also heard on the radio today the Leader of the Opposition carrying on about privatisation. We have made one decision in corrective services additional to the decisions made by Labor in the court security and custodial services process, and members opposite supported that. Labor supported Acacia being run by the private sector twice! We also put in place a capital works program for two new prisons—Eastern Goldfields to be run by the Department of Corrective Services and the West Kimberley prison to be run by the Department of Corrective Services. There is no government here charging down the path of privatisation. We are picking the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia, and we are picking the best outcomes to deliver a service to the people in our prison system.
Mr D.T. REDMAN replied: (1)–(3) Yes, I do recall the question that the member for Cockburn raised. Mr F.M. Logan : You should do; you never answered it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : Pardon? Mr F.M. Logan : You never answered it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : Member, I was not in a position to answer that question. The other point I made was that there had not been a decision made at that time by cabinet. Mr F.M. Logan : You knew all about it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : It was an issue that in my view needed to go before cabinet. It did go before cabinet on Monday and cabinet made a decision, so the circumstances have considerably changed since I last got a question. The question the member for Cockburn asked was how many tenderers there were. I will answer that outright that there was one. One tender was put in that met the time frame. A number were leading up to that point, but only one was considered in the context of government. Mr F.M. Logan : And who was that? Mr D.T. REDMAN : That is a tough question, member! Who was that? Important, therefore, in cabinet deliberations were a couple of things: first, the comparison with a public sector comparator. Mr F.M. Logan : How do we get somebody else to bid? Mr D.T. REDMAN : I can highlight to the member that it was a very robust process whereby if we were to make a decision around a single tenderer in this case, we had to have a robust public sector comparator to make the comparison—and we did. Although I cannot outline to the house the benefit to the state, because we are still in a process of negotiations to finalise the due diligence process, I can say that it is a significant benefit to the state. We have a target to get the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia. Mr F.M. Logan : In relation to part (2) of the question, which company advised you? Mr D.T. REDMAN : In terms of the work that was done, DCS, the Department of Treasury and the Department of Finance worked through a very robust process to make the comparisons with the public sector comparator to ensure that what is put up stands up to all the formal requirements that government needs to have in place to be assured of for running and managing our prisons. We have confidence that Serco will stand up within the corrective services system. We already have Acacia Prison being run by Serco, which, interestingly, is a position that I think was supported by the Labor Party when it was in government. I also heard on the radio today the Leader of the Opposition carrying on about privatisation. We have made one decision in corrective services additional to the decisions made by Labor in the court security and custodial services process, and members opposite supported that. Labor supported Acacia being run by the private sector twice! We also put in place a capital works program for two new prisons—Eastern Goldfields to be run by the Department of Corrective Services and the West Kimberley prison to be run by the Department of Corrective Services. There is no government here charging down the path of privatisation. We are picking the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia, and we are picking the best outcomes to deliver a service to the people in our prison system.
(1)–(3) Yes, I do recall the question that the member for Cockburn raised. Mr F.M. Logan : You should do; you never answered it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : Pardon? Mr F.M. Logan : You never answered it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : Member, I was not in a position to answer that question. The other point I made was that there had not been a decision made at that time by cabinet. Mr F.M. Logan : You knew all about it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : It was an issue that in my view needed to go before cabinet. It did go before cabinet on Monday and cabinet made a decision, so the circumstances have considerably changed since I last got a question. The question the member for Cockburn asked was how many tenderers there were. I will answer that outright that there was one. One tender was put in that met the time frame. A number were leading up to that point, but only one was considered in the context of government. Mr F.M. Logan : And who was that? Mr D.T. REDMAN : That is a tough question, member! Who was that? Important, therefore, in cabinet deliberations were a couple of things: first, the comparison with a public sector comparator. Mr F.M. Logan : How do we get somebody else to bid? Mr D.T. REDMAN : I can highlight to the member that it was a very robust process whereby if we were to make a decision around a single tenderer in this case, we had to have a robust public sector comparator to make the comparison—and we did. Although I cannot outline to the house the benefit to the state, because we are still in a process of negotiations to finalise the due diligence process, I can say that it is a significant benefit to the state. We have a target to get the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia. Mr F.M. Logan : In relation to part (2) of the question, which company advised you? Mr D.T. REDMAN : In terms of the work that was done, DCS, the Department of Treasury and the Department of Finance worked through a very robust process to make the comparisons with the public sector comparator to ensure that what is put up stands up to all the formal requirements that government needs to have in place to be assured of for running and managing our prisons. We have confidence that Serco will stand up within the corrective services system. We already have Acacia Prison being run by Serco, which, interestingly, is a position that I think was supported by the Labor Party when it was in government. I also heard on the radio today the Leader of the Opposition carrying on about privatisation. We have made one decision in corrective services additional to the decisions made by Labor in the court security and custodial services process, and members opposite supported that. Labor supported Acacia being run by the private sector twice! We also put in place a capital works program for two new prisons—Eastern Goldfields to be run by the Department of Corrective Services and the West Kimberley prison to be run by the Department of Corrective Services. There is no government here charging down the path of privatisation. We are picking the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia, and we are picking the best outcomes to deliver a service to the people in our prison system.
Mr F.M. Logan : You should do; you never answered it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : Pardon? Mr F.M. Logan : You never answered it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : Member, I was not in a position to answer that question. The other point I made was that there had not been a decision made at that time by cabinet. Mr F.M. Logan : You knew all about it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : It was an issue that in my view needed to go before cabinet. It did go before cabinet on Monday and cabinet made a decision, so the circumstances have considerably changed since I last got a question. The question the member for Cockburn asked was how many tenderers there were. I will answer that outright that there was one. One tender was put in that met the time frame. A number were leading up to that point, but only one was considered in the context of government. Mr F.M. Logan : And who was that? Mr D.T. REDMAN : That is a tough question, member! Who was that? Important, therefore, in cabinet deliberations were a couple of things: first, the comparison with a public sector comparator. Mr F.M. Logan : How do we get somebody else to bid? Mr D.T. REDMAN : I can highlight to the member that it was a very robust process whereby if we were to make a decision around a single tenderer in this case, we had to have a robust public sector comparator to make the comparison—and we did. Although I cannot outline to the house the benefit to the state, because we are still in a process of negotiations to finalise the due diligence process, I can say that it is a significant benefit to the state. We have a target to get the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia. Mr F.M. Logan : In relation to part (2) of the question, which company advised you? Mr D.T. REDMAN : In terms of the work that was done, DCS, the Department of Treasury and the Department of Finance worked through a very robust process to make the comparisons with the public sector comparator to ensure that what is put up stands up to all the formal requirements that government needs to have in place to be assured of for running and managing our prisons. We have confidence that Serco will stand up within the corrective services system. We already have Acacia Prison being run by Serco, which, interestingly, is a position that I think was supported by the Labor Party when it was in government. I also heard on the radio today the Leader of the Opposition carrying on about privatisation. We have made one decision in corrective services additional to the decisions made by Labor in the court security and custodial services process, and members opposite supported that. Labor supported Acacia being run by the private sector twice! We also put in place a capital works program for two new prisons—Eastern Goldfields to be run by the Department of Corrective Services and the West Kimberley prison to be run by the Department of Corrective Services. There is no government here charging down the path of privatisation. We are picking the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia, and we are picking the best outcomes to deliver a service to the people in our prison system.
Mr D.T. REDMAN : Pardon? Mr F.M. Logan : You never answered it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : Member, I was not in a position to answer that question. The other point I made was that there had not been a decision made at that time by cabinet. Mr F.M. Logan : You knew all about it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : It was an issue that in my view needed to go before cabinet. It did go before cabinet on Monday and cabinet made a decision, so the circumstances have considerably changed since I last got a question. The question the member for Cockburn asked was how many tenderers there were. I will answer that outright that there was one. One tender was put in that met the time frame. A number were leading up to that point, but only one was considered in the context of government. Mr F.M. Logan : And who was that? Mr D.T. REDMAN : That is a tough question, member! Who was that? Important, therefore, in cabinet deliberations were a couple of things: first, the comparison with a public sector comparator. Mr F.M. Logan : How do we get somebody else to bid? Mr D.T. REDMAN : I can highlight to the member that it was a very robust process whereby if we were to make a decision around a single tenderer in this case, we had to have a robust public sector comparator to make the comparison—and we did. Although I cannot outline to the house the benefit to the state, because we are still in a process of negotiations to finalise the due diligence process, I can say that it is a significant benefit to the state. We have a target to get the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia. Mr F.M. Logan : In relation to part (2) of the question, which company advised you? Mr D.T. REDMAN : In terms of the work that was done, DCS, the Department of Treasury and the Department of Finance worked through a very robust process to make the comparisons with the public sector comparator to ensure that what is put up stands up to all the formal requirements that government needs to have in place to be assured of for running and managing our prisons. We have confidence that Serco will stand up within the corrective services system. We already have Acacia Prison being run by Serco, which, interestingly, is a position that I think was supported by the Labor Party when it was in government. I also heard on the radio today the Leader of the Opposition carrying on about privatisation. We have made one decision in corrective services additional to the decisions made by Labor in the court security and custodial services process, and members opposite supported that. Labor supported Acacia being run by the private sector twice! We also put in place a capital works program for two new prisons—Eastern Goldfields to be run by the Department of Corrective Services and the West Kimberley prison to be run by the Department of Corrective Services. There is no government here charging down the path of privatisation. We are picking the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia, and we are picking the best outcomes to deliver a service to the people in our prison system.
Mr F.M. Logan : You never answered it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : Member, I was not in a position to answer that question. The other point I made was that there had not been a decision made at that time by cabinet. Mr F.M. Logan : You knew all about it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : It was an issue that in my view needed to go before cabinet. It did go before cabinet on Monday and cabinet made a decision, so the circumstances have considerably changed since I last got a question. The question the member for Cockburn asked was how many tenderers there were. I will answer that outright that there was one. One tender was put in that met the time frame. A number were leading up to that point, but only one was considered in the context of government. Mr F.M. Logan : And who was that? Mr D.T. REDMAN : That is a tough question, member! Who was that? Important, therefore, in cabinet deliberations were a couple of things: first, the comparison with a public sector comparator. Mr F.M. Logan : How do we get somebody else to bid? Mr D.T. REDMAN : I can highlight to the member that it was a very robust process whereby if we were to make a decision around a single tenderer in this case, we had to have a robust public sector comparator to make the comparison—and we did. Although I cannot outline to the house the benefit to the state, because we are still in a process of negotiations to finalise the due diligence process, I can say that it is a significant benefit to the state. We have a target to get the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia. Mr F.M. Logan : In relation to part (2) of the question, which company advised you? Mr D.T. REDMAN : In terms of the work that was done, DCS, the Department of Treasury and the Department of Finance worked through a very robust process to make the comparisons with the public sector comparator to ensure that what is put up stands up to all the formal requirements that government needs to have in place to be assured of for running and managing our prisons. We have confidence that Serco will stand up within the corrective services system. We already have Acacia Prison being run by Serco, which, interestingly, is a position that I think was supported by the Labor Party when it was in government. I also heard on the radio today the Leader of the Opposition carrying on about privatisation. We have made one decision in corrective services additional to the decisions made by Labor in the court security and custodial services process, and members opposite supported that. Labor supported Acacia being run by the private sector twice! We also put in place a capital works program for two new prisons—Eastern Goldfields to be run by the Department of Corrective Services and the West Kimberley prison to be run by the Department of Corrective Services. There is no government here charging down the path of privatisation. We are picking the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia, and we are picking the best outcomes to deliver a service to the people in our prison system.
Mr D.T. REDMAN : Member, I was not in a position to answer that question. The other point I made was that there had not been a decision made at that time by cabinet. Mr F.M. Logan : You knew all about it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : It was an issue that in my view needed to go before cabinet. It did go before cabinet on Monday and cabinet made a decision, so the circumstances have considerably changed since I last got a question. The question the member for Cockburn asked was how many tenderers there were. I will answer that outright that there was one. One tender was put in that met the time frame. A number were leading up to that point, but only one was considered in the context of government. Mr F.M. Logan : And who was that? Mr D.T. REDMAN : That is a tough question, member! Who was that? Important, therefore, in cabinet deliberations were a couple of things: first, the comparison with a public sector comparator. Mr F.M. Logan : How do we get somebody else to bid? Mr D.T. REDMAN : I can highlight to the member that it was a very robust process whereby if we were to make a decision around a single tenderer in this case, we had to have a robust public sector comparator to make the comparison—and we did. Although I cannot outline to the house the benefit to the state, because we are still in a process of negotiations to finalise the due diligence process, I can say that it is a significant benefit to the state. We have a target to get the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia. Mr F.M. Logan : In relation to part (2) of the question, which company advised you? Mr D.T. REDMAN : In terms of the work that was done, DCS, the Department of Treasury and the Department of Finance worked through a very robust process to make the comparisons with the public sector comparator to ensure that what is put up stands up to all the formal requirements that government needs to have in place to be assured of for running and managing our prisons. We have confidence that Serco will stand up within the corrective services system. We already have Acacia Prison being run by Serco, which, interestingly, is a position that I think was supported by the Labor Party when it was in government. I also heard on the radio today the Leader of the Opposition carrying on about privatisation. We have made one decision in corrective services additional to the decisions made by Labor in the court security and custodial services process, and members opposite supported that. Labor supported Acacia being run by the private sector twice! We also put in place a capital works program for two new prisons—Eastern Goldfields to be run by the Department of Corrective Services and the West Kimberley prison to be run by the Department of Corrective Services. There is no government here charging down the path of privatisation. We are picking the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia, and we are picking the best outcomes to deliver a service to the people in our prison system.
Mr F.M. Logan : You knew all about it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : It was an issue that in my view needed to go before cabinet. It did go before cabinet on Monday and cabinet made a decision, so the circumstances have considerably changed since I last got a question. The question the member for Cockburn asked was how many tenderers there were. I will answer that outright that there was one. One tender was put in that met the time frame. A number were leading up to that point, but only one was considered in the context of government. Mr F.M. Logan : And who was that? Mr D.T. REDMAN : That is a tough question, member! Who was that? Important, therefore, in cabinet deliberations were a couple of things: first, the comparison with a public sector comparator. Mr F.M. Logan : How do we get somebody else to bid? Mr D.T. REDMAN : I can highlight to the member that it was a very robust process whereby if we were to make a decision around a single tenderer in this case, we had to have a robust public sector comparator to make the comparison—and we did. Although I cannot outline to the house the benefit to the state, because we are still in a process of negotiations to finalise the due diligence process, I can say that it is a significant benefit to the state. We have a target to get the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia. Mr F.M. Logan : In relation to part (2) of the question, which company advised you? Mr D.T. REDMAN : In terms of the work that was done, DCS, the Department of Treasury and the Department of Finance worked through a very robust process to make the comparisons with the public sector comparator to ensure that what is put up stands up to all the formal requirements that government needs to have in place to be assured of for running and managing our prisons. We have confidence that Serco will stand up within the corrective services system. We already have Acacia Prison being run by Serco, which, interestingly, is a position that I think was supported by the Labor Party when it was in government. I also heard on the radio today the Leader of the Opposition carrying on about privatisation. We have made one decision in corrective services additional to the decisions made by Labor in the court security and custodial services process, and members opposite supported that. Labor supported Acacia being run by the private sector twice! We also put in place a capital works program for two new prisons—Eastern Goldfields to be run by the Department of Corrective Services and the West Kimberley prison to be run by the Department of Corrective Services. There is no government here charging down the path of privatisation. We are picking the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia, and we are picking the best outcomes to deliver a service to the people in our prison system.
Mr D.T. REDMAN : It was an issue that in my view needed to go before cabinet. It did go before cabinet on Monday and cabinet made a decision, so the circumstances have considerably changed since I last got a question. The question the member for Cockburn asked was how many tenderers there were. I will answer that outright that there was one. One tender was put in that met the time frame. A number were leading up to that point, but only one was considered in the context of government. Mr F.M. Logan : And who was that? Mr D.T. REDMAN : That is a tough question, member! Who was that? Important, therefore, in cabinet deliberations were a couple of things: first, the comparison with a public sector comparator. Mr F.M. Logan : How do we get somebody else to bid? Mr D.T. REDMAN : I can highlight to the member that it was a very robust process whereby if we were to make a decision around a single tenderer in this case, we had to have a robust public sector comparator to make the comparison—and we did. Although I cannot outline to the house the benefit to the state, because we are still in a process of negotiations to finalise the due diligence process, I can say that it is a significant benefit to the state. We have a target to get the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia. Mr F.M. Logan : In relation to part (2) of the question, which company advised you? Mr D.T. REDMAN : In terms of the work that was done, DCS, the Department of Treasury and the Department of Finance worked through a very robust process to make the comparisons with the public sector comparator to ensure that what is put up stands up to all the formal requirements that government needs to have in place to be assured of for running and managing our prisons. We have confidence that Serco will stand up within the corrective services system. We already have Acacia Prison being run by Serco, which, interestingly, is a position that I think was supported by the Labor Party when it was in government. I also heard on the radio today the Leader of the Opposition carrying on about privatisation. We have made one decision in corrective services additional to the decisions made by Labor in the court security and custodial services process, and members opposite supported that. Labor supported Acacia being run by the private sector twice! We also put in place a capital works program for two new prisons—Eastern Goldfields to be run by the Department of Corrective Services and the West Kimberley prison to be run by the Department of Corrective Services. There is no government here charging down the path of privatisation. We are picking the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia, and we are picking the best outcomes to deliver a service to the people in our prison system.
The question the member for Cockburn asked was how many tenderers there were. I will answer that outright that there was one. One tender was put in that met the time frame. A number were leading up to that point, but only one was considered in the context of government. Mr F.M. Logan : And who was that? Mr D.T. REDMAN : That is a tough question, member! Who was that? Important, therefore, in cabinet deliberations were a couple of things: first, the comparison with a public sector comparator. Mr F.M. Logan : How do we get somebody else to bid? Mr D.T. REDMAN : I can highlight to the member that it was a very robust process whereby if we were to make a decision around a single tenderer in this case, we had to have a robust public sector comparator to make the comparison—and we did. Although I cannot outline to the house the benefit to the state, because we are still in a process of negotiations to finalise the due diligence process, I can say that it is a significant benefit to the state. We have a target to get the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia. Mr F.M. Logan : In relation to part (2) of the question, which company advised you? Mr D.T. REDMAN : In terms of the work that was done, DCS, the Department of Treasury and the Department of Finance worked through a very robust process to make the comparisons with the public sector comparator to ensure that what is put up stands up to all the formal requirements that government needs to have in place to be assured of for running and managing our prisons. We have confidence that Serco will stand up within the corrective services system. We already have Acacia Prison being run by Serco, which, interestingly, is a position that I think was supported by the Labor Party when it was in government. I also heard on the radio today the Leader of the Opposition carrying on about privatisation. We have made one decision in corrective services additional to the decisions made by Labor in the court security and custodial services process, and members opposite supported that. Labor supported Acacia being run by the private sector twice! We also put in place a capital works program for two new prisons—Eastern Goldfields to be run by the Department of Corrective Services and the West Kimberley prison to be run by the Department of Corrective Services. There is no government here charging down the path of privatisation. We are picking the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia, and we are picking the best outcomes to deliver a service to the people in our prison system.
Mr F.M. Logan : And who was that? Mr D.T. REDMAN : That is a tough question, member! Who was that? Important, therefore, in cabinet deliberations were a couple of things: first, the comparison with a public sector comparator. Mr F.M. Logan : How do we get somebody else to bid? Mr D.T. REDMAN : I can highlight to the member that it was a very robust process whereby if we were to make a decision around a single tenderer in this case, we had to have a robust public sector comparator to make the comparison—and we did. Although I cannot outline to the house the benefit to the state, because we are still in a process of negotiations to finalise the due diligence process, I can say that it is a significant benefit to the state. We have a target to get the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia. Mr F.M. Logan : In relation to part (2) of the question, which company advised you? Mr D.T. REDMAN : In terms of the work that was done, DCS, the Department of Treasury and the Department of Finance worked through a very robust process to make the comparisons with the public sector comparator to ensure that what is put up stands up to all the formal requirements that government needs to have in place to be assured of for running and managing our prisons. We have confidence that Serco will stand up within the corrective services system. We already have Acacia Prison being run by Serco, which, interestingly, is a position that I think was supported by the Labor Party when it was in government. I also heard on the radio today the Leader of the Opposition carrying on about privatisation. We have made one decision in corrective services additional to the decisions made by Labor in the court security and custodial services process, and members opposite supported that. Labor supported Acacia being run by the private sector twice! We also put in place a capital works program for two new prisons—Eastern Goldfields to be run by the Department of Corrective Services and the West Kimberley prison to be run by the Department of Corrective Services. There is no government here charging down the path of privatisation. We are picking the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia, and we are picking the best outcomes to deliver a service to the people in our prison system.
Mr D.T. REDMAN : That is a tough question, member! Who was that? Important, therefore, in cabinet deliberations were a couple of things: first, the comparison with a public sector comparator. Mr F.M. Logan : How do we get somebody else to bid? Mr D.T. REDMAN : I can highlight to the member that it was a very robust process whereby if we were to make a decision around a single tenderer in this case, we had to have a robust public sector comparator to make the comparison—and we did. Although I cannot outline to the house the benefit to the state, because we are still in a process of negotiations to finalise the due diligence process, I can say that it is a significant benefit to the state. We have a target to get the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia. Mr F.M. Logan : In relation to part (2) of the question, which company advised you? Mr D.T. REDMAN : In terms of the work that was done, DCS, the Department of Treasury and the Department of Finance worked through a very robust process to make the comparisons with the public sector comparator to ensure that what is put up stands up to all the formal requirements that government needs to have in place to be assured of for running and managing our prisons. We have confidence that Serco will stand up within the corrective services system. We already have Acacia Prison being run by Serco, which, interestingly, is a position that I think was supported by the Labor Party when it was in government. I also heard on the radio today the Leader of the Opposition carrying on about privatisation. We have made one decision in corrective services additional to the decisions made by Labor in the court security and custodial services process, and members opposite supported that. Labor supported Acacia being run by the private sector twice! We also put in place a capital works program for two new prisons—Eastern Goldfields to be run by the Department of Corrective Services and the West Kimberley prison to be run by the Department of Corrective Services. There is no government here charging down the path of privatisation. We are picking the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia, and we are picking the best outcomes to deliver a service to the people in our prison system.
Important, therefore, in cabinet deliberations were a couple of things: first, the comparison with a public sector comparator. Mr F.M. Logan : How do we get somebody else to bid? Mr D.T. REDMAN : I can highlight to the member that it was a very robust process whereby if we were to make a decision around a single tenderer in this case, we had to have a robust public sector comparator to make the comparison—and we did. Although I cannot outline to the house the benefit to the state, because we are still in a process of negotiations to finalise the due diligence process, I can say that it is a significant benefit to the state. We have a target to get the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia. Mr F.M. Logan : In relation to part (2) of the question, which company advised you? Mr D.T. REDMAN : In terms of the work that was done, DCS, the Department of Treasury and the Department of Finance worked through a very robust process to make the comparisons with the public sector comparator to ensure that what is put up stands up to all the formal requirements that government needs to have in place to be assured of for running and managing our prisons. We have confidence that Serco will stand up within the corrective services system. We already have Acacia Prison being run by Serco, which, interestingly, is a position that I think was supported by the Labor Party when it was in government. I also heard on the radio today the Leader of the Opposition carrying on about privatisation. We have made one decision in corrective services additional to the decisions made by Labor in the court security and custodial services process, and members opposite supported that. Labor supported Acacia being run by the private sector twice! We also put in place a capital works program for two new prisons—Eastern Goldfields to be run by the Department of Corrective Services and the West Kimberley prison to be run by the Department of Corrective Services. There is no government here charging down the path of privatisation. We are picking the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia, and we are picking the best outcomes to deliver a service to the people in our prison system.
Mr F.M. Logan : How do we get somebody else to bid? Mr D.T. REDMAN : I can highlight to the member that it was a very robust process whereby if we were to make a decision around a single tenderer in this case, we had to have a robust public sector comparator to make the comparison—and we did. Although I cannot outline to the house the benefit to the state, because we are still in a process of negotiations to finalise the due diligence process, I can say that it is a significant benefit to the state. We have a target to get the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia. Mr F.M. Logan : In relation to part (2) of the question, which company advised you? Mr D.T. REDMAN : In terms of the work that was done, DCS, the Department of Treasury and the Department of Finance worked through a very robust process to make the comparisons with the public sector comparator to ensure that what is put up stands up to all the formal requirements that government needs to have in place to be assured of for running and managing our prisons. We have confidence that Serco will stand up within the corrective services system. We already have Acacia Prison being run by Serco, which, interestingly, is a position that I think was supported by the Labor Party when it was in government. I also heard on the radio today the Leader of the Opposition carrying on about privatisation. We have made one decision in corrective services additional to the decisions made by Labor in the court security and custodial services process, and members opposite supported that. Labor supported Acacia being run by the private sector twice! We also put in place a capital works program for two new prisons—Eastern Goldfields to be run by the Department of Corrective Services and the West Kimberley prison to be run by the Department of Corrective Services. There is no government here charging down the path of privatisation. We are picking the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia, and we are picking the best outcomes to deliver a service to the people in our prison system.
Mr D.T. REDMAN : I can highlight to the member that it was a very robust process whereby if we were to make a decision around a single tenderer in this case, we had to have a robust public sector comparator to make the comparison—and we did. Although I cannot outline to the house the benefit to the state, because we are still in a process of negotiations to finalise the due diligence process, I can say that it is a significant benefit to the state. We have a target to get the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia. Mr F.M. Logan : In relation to part (2) of the question, which company advised you? Mr D.T. REDMAN : In terms of the work that was done, DCS, the Department of Treasury and the Department of Finance worked through a very robust process to make the comparisons with the public sector comparator to ensure that what is put up stands up to all the formal requirements that government needs to have in place to be assured of for running and managing our prisons. We have confidence that Serco will stand up within the corrective services system. We already have Acacia Prison being run by Serco, which, interestingly, is a position that I think was supported by the Labor Party when it was in government. I also heard on the radio today the Leader of the Opposition carrying on about privatisation. We have made one decision in corrective services additional to the decisions made by Labor in the court security and custodial services process, and members opposite supported that. Labor supported Acacia being run by the private sector twice! We also put in place a capital works program for two new prisons—Eastern Goldfields to be run by the Department of Corrective Services and the West Kimberley prison to be run by the Department of Corrective Services. There is no government here charging down the path of privatisation. We are picking the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia, and we are picking the best outcomes to deliver a service to the people in our prison system.
Mr F.M. Logan : In relation to part (2) of the question, which company advised you? Mr D.T. REDMAN : In terms of the work that was done, DCS, the Department of Treasury and the Department of Finance worked through a very robust process to make the comparisons with the public sector comparator to ensure that what is put up stands up to all the formal requirements that government needs to have in place to be assured of for running and managing our prisons. We have confidence that Serco will stand up within the corrective services system. We already have Acacia Prison being run by Serco, which, interestingly, is a position that I think was supported by the Labor Party when it was in government. I also heard on the radio today the Leader of the Opposition carrying on about privatisation. We have made one decision in corrective services additional to the decisions made by Labor in the court security and custodial services process, and members opposite supported that. Labor supported Acacia being run by the private sector twice! We also put in place a capital works program for two new prisons—Eastern Goldfields to be run by the Department of Corrective Services and the West Kimberley prison to be run by the Department of Corrective Services. There is no government here charging down the path of privatisation. We are picking the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia, and we are picking the best outcomes to deliver a service to the people in our prison system.
Mr D.T. REDMAN : In terms of the work that was done, DCS, the Department of Treasury and the Department of Finance worked through a very robust process to make the comparisons with the public sector comparator to ensure that what is put up stands up to all the formal requirements that government needs to have in place to be assured of for running and managing our prisons. We have confidence that Serco will stand up within the corrective services system. We already have Acacia Prison being run by Serco, which, interestingly, is a position that I think was supported by the Labor Party when it was in government. I also heard on the radio today the Leader of the Opposition carrying on about privatisation. We have made one decision in corrective services additional to the decisions made by Labor in the court security and custodial services process, and members opposite supported that. Labor supported Acacia being run by the private sector twice! We also put in place a capital works program for two new prisons—Eastern Goldfields to be run by the Department of Corrective Services and the West Kimberley prison to be run by the Department of Corrective Services. There is no government here charging down the path of privatisation. We are picking the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia, and we are picking the best outcomes to deliver a service to the people in our prison system.
(1) How many other companies tendered for this prison contract other than the successful bidder Serco? (2) Did the government receive external advice regarding the development of the public sector cost comparator; and, if so, from whom? (3) Will the minister now table the public sector cost comparator? Mr D.T. REDMAN replied: (1)–(3) Yes, I do recall the question that the member for Cockburn raised. Mr F.M. Logan : You should do; you never answered it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : Pardon? Mr F.M. Logan : You never answered it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : Member, I was not in a position to answer that question. The other point I made was that there had not been a decision made at that time by cabinet. Mr F.M. Logan : You knew all about it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : It was an issue that in my view needed to go before cabinet. It did go before cabinet on Monday and cabinet made a decision, so the circumstances have considerably changed since I last got a question. The question the member for Cockburn asked was how many tenderers there were. I will answer that outright that there was one. One tender was put in that met the time frame. A number were leading up to that point, but only one was considered in the context of government. Mr F.M. Logan : And who was that? Mr D.T. REDMAN : That is a tough question, member! Who was that? Important, therefore, in cabinet deliberations were a couple of things: first, the comparison with a public sector comparator. Mr F.M. Logan : How do we get somebody else to bid? Mr D.T. REDMAN : I can highlight to the member that it was a very robust process whereby if we were to make a decision around a single tenderer in this case, we had to have a robust public sector comparator to make the comparison—and we did. Although I cannot outline to the house the benefit to the state, because we are still in a process of negotiations to finalise the due diligence process, I can say that it is a significant benefit to the state. We have a target to get the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia. Mr F.M. Logan : In relation to part (2) of the question, which company advised you? Mr D.T. REDMAN : In terms of the work that was done, DCS, the Department of Treasury and the Department of Finance worked through a very robust process to make the comparisons with the public sector comparator to ensure that what is put up stands up to all the formal requirements that government needs to have in place to be assured of for running and managing our prisons. We have confidence that Serco will stand up within the corrective services system. We already have Acacia Prison being run by Serco, which, interestingly, is a position that I think was supported by the Labor Party when it was in government. I also heard on the radio today the Leader of the Opposition carrying on about privatisation. We have made one decision in corrective services additional to the decisions made by Labor in the court security and custodial services process, and members opposite supported that. Labor supported Acacia being run by the private sector twice! We also put in place a capital works program for two new prisons—Eastern Goldfields to be run by the Department of Corrective Services and the West Kimberley prison to be run by the Department of Corrective Services. There is no government here charging down the path of privatisation. We are picking the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia, and we are picking the best outcomes to deliver a service to the people in our prison system.
(2) Did the government receive external advice regarding the development of the public sector cost comparator; and, if so, from whom? (3) Will the minister now table the public sector cost comparator? Mr D.T. REDMAN replied: (1)–(3) Yes, I do recall the question that the member for Cockburn raised. Mr F.M. Logan : You should do; you never answered it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : Pardon? Mr F.M. Logan : You never answered it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : Member, I was not in a position to answer that question. The other point I made was that there had not been a decision made at that time by cabinet. Mr F.M. Logan : You knew all about it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : It was an issue that in my view needed to go before cabinet. It did go before cabinet on Monday and cabinet made a decision, so the circumstances have considerably changed since I last got a question. The question the member for Cockburn asked was how many tenderers there were. I will answer that outright that there was one. One tender was put in that met the time frame. A number were leading up to that point, but only one was considered in the context of government. Mr F.M. Logan : And who was that? Mr D.T. REDMAN : That is a tough question, member! Who was that? Important, therefore, in cabinet deliberations were a couple of things: first, the comparison with a public sector comparator. Mr F.M. Logan : How do we get somebody else to bid? Mr D.T. REDMAN : I can highlight to the member that it was a very robust process whereby if we were to make a decision around a single tenderer in this case, we had to have a robust public sector comparator to make the comparison—and we did. Although I cannot outline to the house the benefit to the state, because we are still in a process of negotiations to finalise the due diligence process, I can say that it is a significant benefit to the state. We have a target to get the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia. Mr F.M. Logan : In relation to part (2) of the question, which company advised you? Mr D.T. REDMAN : In terms of the work that was done, DCS, the Department of Treasury and the Department of Finance worked through a very robust process to make the comparisons with the public sector comparator to ensure that what is put up stands up to all the formal requirements that government needs to have in place to be assured of for running and managing our prisons. We have confidence that Serco will stand up within the corrective services system. We already have Acacia Prison being run by Serco, which, interestingly, is a position that I think was supported by the Labor Party when it was in government. I also heard on the radio today the Leader of the Opposition carrying on about privatisation. We have made one decision in corrective services additional to the decisions made by Labor in the court security and custodial services process, and members opposite supported that. Labor supported Acacia being run by the private sector twice! We also put in place a capital works program for two new prisons—Eastern Goldfields to be run by the Department of Corrective Services and the West Kimberley prison to be run by the Department of Corrective Services. There is no government here charging down the path of privatisation. We are picking the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia, and we are picking the best outcomes to deliver a service to the people in our prison system.
(3) Will the minister now table the public sector cost comparator? Mr D.T. REDMAN replied: (1)–(3) Yes, I do recall the question that the member for Cockburn raised. Mr F.M. Logan : You should do; you never answered it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : Pardon? Mr F.M. Logan : You never answered it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : Member, I was not in a position to answer that question. The other point I made was that there had not been a decision made at that time by cabinet. Mr F.M. Logan : You knew all about it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : It was an issue that in my view needed to go before cabinet. It did go before cabinet on Monday and cabinet made a decision, so the circumstances have considerably changed since I last got a question. The question the member for Cockburn asked was how many tenderers there were. I will answer that outright that there was one. One tender was put in that met the time frame. A number were leading up to that point, but only one was considered in the context of government. Mr F.M. Logan : And who was that? Mr D.T. REDMAN : That is a tough question, member! Who was that? Important, therefore, in cabinet deliberations were a couple of things: first, the comparison with a public sector comparator. Mr F.M. Logan : How do we get somebody else to bid? Mr D.T. REDMAN : I can highlight to the member that it was a very robust process whereby if we were to make a decision around a single tenderer in this case, we had to have a robust public sector comparator to make the comparison—and we did. Although I cannot outline to the house the benefit to the state, because we are still in a process of negotiations to finalise the due diligence process, I can say that it is a significant benefit to the state. We have a target to get the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia. Mr F.M. Logan : In relation to part (2) of the question, which company advised you? Mr D.T. REDMAN : In terms of the work that was done, DCS, the Department of Treasury and the Department of Finance worked through a very robust process to make the comparisons with the public sector comparator to ensure that what is put up stands up to all the formal requirements that government needs to have in place to be assured of for running and managing our prisons. We have confidence that Serco will stand up within the corrective services system. We already have Acacia Prison being run by Serco, which, interestingly, is a position that I think was supported by the Labor Party when it was in government. I also heard on the radio today the Leader of the Opposition carrying on about privatisation. We have made one decision in corrective services additional to the decisions made by Labor in the court security and custodial services process, and members opposite supported that. Labor supported Acacia being run by the private sector twice! We also put in place a capital works program for two new prisons—Eastern Goldfields to be run by the Department of Corrective Services and the West Kimberley prison to be run by the Department of Corrective Services. There is no government here charging down the path of privatisation. We are picking the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia, and we are picking the best outcomes to deliver a service to the people in our prison system.
Mr D.T. REDMAN replied: (1)–(3) Yes, I do recall the question that the member for Cockburn raised. Mr F.M. Logan : You should do; you never answered it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : Pardon? Mr F.M. Logan : You never answered it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : Member, I was not in a position to answer that question. The other point I made was that there had not been a decision made at that time by cabinet. Mr F.M. Logan : You knew all about it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : It was an issue that in my view needed to go before cabinet. It did go before cabinet on Monday and cabinet made a decision, so the circumstances have considerably changed since I last got a question. The question the member for Cockburn asked was how many tenderers there were. I will answer that outright that there was one. One tender was put in that met the time frame. A number were leading up to that point, but only one was considered in the context of government. Mr F.M. Logan : And who was that? Mr D.T. REDMAN : That is a tough question, member! Who was that? Important, therefore, in cabinet deliberations were a couple of things: first, the comparison with a public sector comparator. Mr F.M. Logan : How do we get somebody else to bid? Mr D.T. REDMAN : I can highlight to the member that it was a very robust process whereby if we were to make a decision around a single tenderer in this case, we had to have a robust public sector comparator to make the comparison—and we did. Although I cannot outline to the house the benefit to the state, because we are still in a process of negotiations to finalise the due diligence process, I can say that it is a significant benefit to the state. We have a target to get the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia. Mr F.M. Logan : In relation to part (2) of the question, which company advised you? Mr D.T. REDMAN : In terms of the work that was done, DCS, the Department of Treasury and the Department of Finance worked through a very robust process to make the comparisons with the public sector comparator to ensure that what is put up stands up to all the formal requirements that government needs to have in place to be assured of for running and managing our prisons. We have confidence that Serco will stand up within the corrective services system. We already have Acacia Prison being run by Serco, which, interestingly, is a position that I think was supported by the Labor Party when it was in government. I also heard on the radio today the Leader of the Opposition carrying on about privatisation. We have made one decision in corrective services additional to the decisions made by Labor in the court security and custodial services process, and members opposite supported that. Labor supported Acacia being run by the private sector twice! We also put in place a capital works program for two new prisons—Eastern Goldfields to be run by the Department of Corrective Services and the West Kimberley prison to be run by the Department of Corrective Services. There is no government here charging down the path of privatisation. We are picking the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia, and we are picking the best outcomes to deliver a service to the people in our prison system.
(1)–(3) Yes, I do recall the question that the member for Cockburn raised. Mr F.M. Logan : You should do; you never answered it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : Pardon? Mr F.M. Logan : You never answered it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : Member, I was not in a position to answer that question. The other point I made was that there had not been a decision made at that time by cabinet. Mr F.M. Logan : You knew all about it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : It was an issue that in my view needed to go before cabinet. It did go before cabinet on Monday and cabinet made a decision, so the circumstances have considerably changed since I last got a question. The question the member for Cockburn asked was how many tenderers there were. I will answer that outright that there was one. One tender was put in that met the time frame. A number were leading up to that point, but only one was considered in the context of government. Mr F.M. Logan : And who was that? Mr D.T. REDMAN : That is a tough question, member! Who was that? Important, therefore, in cabinet deliberations were a couple of things: first, the comparison with a public sector comparator. Mr F.M. Logan : How do we get somebody else to bid? Mr D.T. REDMAN : I can highlight to the member that it was a very robust process whereby if we were to make a decision around a single tenderer in this case, we had to have a robust public sector comparator to make the comparison—and we did. Although I cannot outline to the house the benefit to the state, because we are still in a process of negotiations to finalise the due diligence process, I can say that it is a significant benefit to the state. We have a target to get the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia. Mr F.M. Logan : In relation to part (2) of the question, which company advised you? Mr D.T. REDMAN : In terms of the work that was done, DCS, the Department of Treasury and the Department of Finance worked through a very robust process to make the comparisons with the public sector comparator to ensure that what is put up stands up to all the formal requirements that government needs to have in place to be assured of for running and managing our prisons. We have confidence that Serco will stand up within the corrective services system. We already have Acacia Prison being run by Serco, which, interestingly, is a position that I think was supported by the Labor Party when it was in government. I also heard on the radio today the Leader of the Opposition carrying on about privatisation. We have made one decision in corrective services additional to the decisions made by Labor in the court security and custodial services process, and members opposite supported that. Labor supported Acacia being run by the private sector twice! We also put in place a capital works program for two new prisons—Eastern Goldfields to be run by the Department of Corrective Services and the West Kimberley prison to be run by the Department of Corrective Services. There is no government here charging down the path of privatisation. We are picking the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia, and we are picking the best outcomes to deliver a service to the people in our prison system.
Mr F.M. Logan : You should do; you never answered it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : Pardon? Mr F.M. Logan : You never answered it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : Member, I was not in a position to answer that question. The other point I made was that there had not been a decision made at that time by cabinet. Mr F.M. Logan : You knew all about it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : It was an issue that in my view needed to go before cabinet. It did go before cabinet on Monday and cabinet made a decision, so the circumstances have considerably changed since I last got a question. The question the member for Cockburn asked was how many tenderers there were. I will answer that outright that there was one. One tender was put in that met the time frame. A number were leading up to that point, but only one was considered in the context of government. Mr F.M. Logan : And who was that? Mr D.T. REDMAN : That is a tough question, member! Who was that? Important, therefore, in cabinet deliberations were a couple of things: first, the comparison with a public sector comparator. Mr F.M. Logan : How do we get somebody else to bid? Mr D.T. REDMAN : I can highlight to the member that it was a very robust process whereby if we were to make a decision around a single tenderer in this case, we had to have a robust public sector comparator to make the comparison—and we did. Although I cannot outline to the house the benefit to the state, because we are still in a process of negotiations to finalise the due diligence process, I can say that it is a significant benefit to the state. We have a target to get the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia. Mr F.M. Logan : In relation to part (2) of the question, which company advised you? Mr D.T. REDMAN : In terms of the work that was done, DCS, the Department of Treasury and the Department of Finance worked through a very robust process to make the comparisons with the public sector comparator to ensure that what is put up stands up to all the formal requirements that government needs to have in place to be assured of for running and managing our prisons. We have confidence that Serco will stand up within the corrective services system. We already have Acacia Prison being run by Serco, which, interestingly, is a position that I think was supported by the Labor Party when it was in government. I also heard on the radio today the Leader of the Opposition carrying on about privatisation. We have made one decision in corrective services additional to the decisions made by Labor in the court security and custodial services process, and members opposite supported that. Labor supported Acacia being run by the private sector twice! We also put in place a capital works program for two new prisons—Eastern Goldfields to be run by the Department of Corrective Services and the West Kimberley prison to be run by the Department of Corrective Services. There is no government here charging down the path of privatisation. We are picking the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia, and we are picking the best outcomes to deliver a service to the people in our prison system.
Mr D.T. REDMAN : Pardon? Mr F.M. Logan : You never answered it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : Member, I was not in a position to answer that question. The other point I made was that there had not been a decision made at that time by cabinet. Mr F.M. Logan : You knew all about it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : It was an issue that in my view needed to go before cabinet. It did go before cabinet on Monday and cabinet made a decision, so the circumstances have considerably changed since I last got a question. The question the member for Cockburn asked was how many tenderers there were. I will answer that outright that there was one. One tender was put in that met the time frame. A number were leading up to that point, but only one was considered in the context of government. Mr F.M. Logan : And who was that? Mr D.T. REDMAN : That is a tough question, member! Who was that? Important, therefore, in cabinet deliberations were a couple of things: first, the comparison with a public sector comparator. Mr F.M. Logan : How do we get somebody else to bid? Mr D.T. REDMAN : I can highlight to the member that it was a very robust process whereby if we were to make a decision around a single tenderer in this case, we had to have a robust public sector comparator to make the comparison—and we did. Although I cannot outline to the house the benefit to the state, because we are still in a process of negotiations to finalise the due diligence process, I can say that it is a significant benefit to the state. We have a target to get the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia. Mr F.M. Logan : In relation to part (2) of the question, which company advised you? Mr D.T. REDMAN : In terms of the work that was done, DCS, the Department of Treasury and the Department of Finance worked through a very robust process to make the comparisons with the public sector comparator to ensure that what is put up stands up to all the formal requirements that government needs to have in place to be assured of for running and managing our prisons. We have confidence that Serco will stand up within the corrective services system. We already have Acacia Prison being run by Serco, which, interestingly, is a position that I think was supported by the Labor Party when it was in government. I also heard on the radio today the Leader of the Opposition carrying on about privatisation. We have made one decision in corrective services additional to the decisions made by Labor in the court security and custodial services process, and members opposite supported that. Labor supported Acacia being run by the private sector twice! We also put in place a capital works program for two new prisons—Eastern Goldfields to be run by the Department of Corrective Services and the West Kimberley prison to be run by the Department of Corrective Services. There is no government here charging down the path of privatisation. We are picking the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia, and we are picking the best outcomes to deliver a service to the people in our prison system.
Mr F.M. Logan : You never answered it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : Member, I was not in a position to answer that question. The other point I made was that there had not been a decision made at that time by cabinet. Mr F.M. Logan : You knew all about it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : It was an issue that in my view needed to go before cabinet. It did go before cabinet on Monday and cabinet made a decision, so the circumstances have considerably changed since I last got a question. The question the member for Cockburn asked was how many tenderers there were. I will answer that outright that there was one. One tender was put in that met the time frame. A number were leading up to that point, but only one was considered in the context of government. Mr F.M. Logan : And who was that? Mr D.T. REDMAN : That is a tough question, member! Who was that? Important, therefore, in cabinet deliberations were a couple of things: first, the comparison with a public sector comparator. Mr F.M. Logan : How do we get somebody else to bid? Mr D.T. REDMAN : I can highlight to the member that it was a very robust process whereby if we were to make a decision around a single tenderer in this case, we had to have a robust public sector comparator to make the comparison—and we did. Although I cannot outline to the house the benefit to the state, because we are still in a process of negotiations to finalise the due diligence process, I can say that it is a significant benefit to the state. We have a target to get the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia. Mr F.M. Logan : In relation to part (2) of the question, which company advised you? Mr D.T. REDMAN : In terms of the work that was done, DCS, the Department of Treasury and the Department of Finance worked through a very robust process to make the comparisons with the public sector comparator to ensure that what is put up stands up to all the formal requirements that government needs to have in place to be assured of for running and managing our prisons. We have confidence that Serco will stand up within the corrective services system. We already have Acacia Prison being run by Serco, which, interestingly, is a position that I think was supported by the Labor Party when it was in government. I also heard on the radio today the Leader of the Opposition carrying on about privatisation. We have made one decision in corrective services additional to the decisions made by Labor in the court security and custodial services process, and members opposite supported that. Labor supported Acacia being run by the private sector twice! We also put in place a capital works program for two new prisons—Eastern Goldfields to be run by the Department of Corrective Services and the West Kimberley prison to be run by the Department of Corrective Services. There is no government here charging down the path of privatisation. We are picking the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia, and we are picking the best outcomes to deliver a service to the people in our prison system.
Mr D.T. REDMAN : Member, I was not in a position to answer that question. The other point I made was that there had not been a decision made at that time by cabinet. Mr F.M. Logan : You knew all about it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : It was an issue that in my view needed to go before cabinet. It did go before cabinet on Monday and cabinet made a decision, so the circumstances have considerably changed since I last got a question. The question the member for Cockburn asked was how many tenderers there were. I will answer that outright that there was one. One tender was put in that met the time frame. A number were leading up to that point, but only one was considered in the context of government. Mr F.M. Logan : And who was that? Mr D.T. REDMAN : That is a tough question, member! Who was that? Important, therefore, in cabinet deliberations were a couple of things: first, the comparison with a public sector comparator. Mr F.M. Logan : How do we get somebody else to bid? Mr D.T. REDMAN : I can highlight to the member that it was a very robust process whereby if we were to make a decision around a single tenderer in this case, we had to have a robust public sector comparator to make the comparison—and we did. Although I cannot outline to the house the benefit to the state, because we are still in a process of negotiations to finalise the due diligence process, I can say that it is a significant benefit to the state. We have a target to get the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia. Mr F.M. Logan : In relation to part (2) of the question, which company advised you? Mr D.T. REDMAN : In terms of the work that was done, DCS, the Department of Treasury and the Department of Finance worked through a very robust process to make the comparisons with the public sector comparator to ensure that what is put up stands up to all the formal requirements that government needs to have in place to be assured of for running and managing our prisons. We have confidence that Serco will stand up within the corrective services system. We already have Acacia Prison being run by Serco, which, interestingly, is a position that I think was supported by the Labor Party when it was in government. I also heard on the radio today the Leader of the Opposition carrying on about privatisation. We have made one decision in corrective services additional to the decisions made by Labor in the court security and custodial services process, and members opposite supported that. Labor supported Acacia being run by the private sector twice! We also put in place a capital works program for two new prisons—Eastern Goldfields to be run by the Department of Corrective Services and the West Kimberley prison to be run by the Department of Corrective Services. There is no government here charging down the path of privatisation. We are picking the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia, and we are picking the best outcomes to deliver a service to the people in our prison system.
Mr F.M. Logan : You knew all about it. Mr D.T. REDMAN : It was an issue that in my view needed to go before cabinet. It did go before cabinet on Monday and cabinet made a decision, so the circumstances have considerably changed since I last got a question. The question the member for Cockburn asked was how many tenderers there were. I will answer that outright that there was one. One tender was put in that met the time frame. A number were leading up to that point, but only one was considered in the context of government. Mr F.M. Logan : And who was that? Mr D.T. REDMAN : That is a tough question, member! Who was that? Important, therefore, in cabinet deliberations were a couple of things: first, the comparison with a public sector comparator. Mr F.M. Logan : How do we get somebody else to bid? Mr D.T. REDMAN : I can highlight to the member that it was a very robust process whereby if we were to make a decision around a single tenderer in this case, we had to have a robust public sector comparator to make the comparison—and we did. Although I cannot outline to the house the benefit to the state, because we are still in a process of negotiations to finalise the due diligence process, I can say that it is a significant benefit to the state. We have a target to get the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia. Mr F.M. Logan : In relation to part (2) of the question, which company advised you? Mr D.T. REDMAN : In terms of the work that was done, DCS, the Department of Treasury and the Department of Finance worked through a very robust process to make the comparisons with the public sector comparator to ensure that what is put up stands up to all the formal requirements that government needs to have in place to be assured of for running and managing our prisons. We have confidence that Serco will stand up within the corrective services system. We already have Acacia Prison being run by Serco, which, interestingly, is a position that I think was supported by the Labor Party when it was in government. I also heard on the radio today the Leader of the Opposition carrying on about privatisation. We have made one decision in corrective services additional to the decisions made by Labor in the court security and custodial services process, and members opposite supported that. Labor supported Acacia being run by the private sector twice! We also put in place a capital works program for two new prisons—Eastern Goldfields to be run by the Department of Corrective Services and the West Kimberley prison to be run by the Department of Corrective Services. There is no government here charging down the path of privatisation. We are picking the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia, and we are picking the best outcomes to deliver a service to the people in our prison system.
Mr D.T. REDMAN : It was an issue that in my view needed to go before cabinet. It did go before cabinet on Monday and cabinet made a decision, so the circumstances have considerably changed since I last got a question. The question the member for Cockburn asked was how many tenderers there were. I will answer that outright that there was one. One tender was put in that met the time frame. A number were leading up to that point, but only one was considered in the context of government. Mr F.M. Logan : And who was that? Mr D.T. REDMAN : That is a tough question, member! Who was that? Important, therefore, in cabinet deliberations were a couple of things: first, the comparison with a public sector comparator. Mr F.M. Logan : How do we get somebody else to bid? Mr D.T. REDMAN : I can highlight to the member that it was a very robust process whereby if we were to make a decision around a single tenderer in this case, we had to have a robust public sector comparator to make the comparison—and we did. Although I cannot outline to the house the benefit to the state, because we are still in a process of negotiations to finalise the due diligence process, I can say that it is a significant benefit to the state. We have a target to get the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia. Mr F.M. Logan : In relation to part (2) of the question, which company advised you? Mr D.T. REDMAN : In terms of the work that was done, DCS, the Department of Treasury and the Department of Finance worked through a very robust process to make the comparisons with the public sector comparator to ensure that what is put up stands up to all the formal requirements that government needs to have in place to be assured of for running and managing our prisons. We have confidence that Serco will stand up within the corrective services system. We already have Acacia Prison being run by Serco, which, interestingly, is a position that I think was supported by the Labor Party when it was in government. I also heard on the radio today the Leader of the Opposition carrying on about privatisation. We have made one decision in corrective services additional to the decisions made by Labor in the court security and custodial services process, and members opposite supported that. Labor supported Acacia being run by the private sector twice! We also put in place a capital works program for two new prisons—Eastern Goldfields to be run by the Department of Corrective Services and the West Kimberley prison to be run by the Department of Corrective Services. There is no government here charging down the path of privatisation. We are picking the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia, and we are picking the best outcomes to deliver a service to the people in our prison system.
The question the member for Cockburn asked was how many tenderers there were. I will answer that outright that there was one. One tender was put in that met the time frame. A number were leading up to that point, but only one was considered in the context of government. Mr F.M. Logan : And who was that? Mr D.T. REDMAN : That is a tough question, member! Who was that? Important, therefore, in cabinet deliberations were a couple of things: first, the comparison with a public sector comparator. Mr F.M. Logan : How do we get somebody else to bid? Mr D.T. REDMAN : I can highlight to the member that it was a very robust process whereby if we were to make a decision around a single tenderer in this case, we had to have a robust public sector comparator to make the comparison—and we did. Although I cannot outline to the house the benefit to the state, because we are still in a process of negotiations to finalise the due diligence process, I can say that it is a significant benefit to the state. We have a target to get the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia. Mr F.M. Logan : In relation to part (2) of the question, which company advised you? Mr D.T. REDMAN : In terms of the work that was done, DCS, the Department of Treasury and the Department of Finance worked through a very robust process to make the comparisons with the public sector comparator to ensure that what is put up stands up to all the formal requirements that government needs to have in place to be assured of for running and managing our prisons. We have confidence that Serco will stand up within the corrective services system. We already have Acacia Prison being run by Serco, which, interestingly, is a position that I think was supported by the Labor Party when it was in government. I also heard on the radio today the Leader of the Opposition carrying on about privatisation. We have made one decision in corrective services additional to the decisions made by Labor in the court security and custodial services process, and members opposite supported that. Labor supported Acacia being run by the private sector twice! We also put in place a capital works program for two new prisons—Eastern Goldfields to be run by the Department of Corrective Services and the West Kimberley prison to be run by the Department of Corrective Services. There is no government here charging down the path of privatisation. We are picking the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia, and we are picking the best outcomes to deliver a service to the people in our prison system.
Mr F.M. Logan : And who was that? Mr D.T. REDMAN : That is a tough question, member! Who was that? Important, therefore, in cabinet deliberations were a couple of things: first, the comparison with a public sector comparator. Mr F.M. Logan : How do we get somebody else to bid? Mr D.T. REDMAN : I can highlight to the member that it was a very robust process whereby if we were to make a decision around a single tenderer in this case, we had to have a robust public sector comparator to make the comparison—and we did. Although I cannot outline to the house the benefit to the state, because we are still in a process of negotiations to finalise the due diligence process, I can say that it is a significant benefit to the state. We have a target to get the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia. Mr F.M. Logan : In relation to part (2) of the question, which company advised you? Mr D.T. REDMAN : In terms of the work that was done, DCS, the Department of Treasury and the Department of Finance worked through a very robust process to make the comparisons with the public sector comparator to ensure that what is put up stands up to all the formal requirements that government needs to have in place to be assured of for running and managing our prisons. We have confidence that Serco will stand up within the corrective services system. We already have Acacia Prison being run by Serco, which, interestingly, is a position that I think was supported by the Labor Party when it was in government. I also heard on the radio today the Leader of the Opposition carrying on about privatisation. We have made one decision in corrective services additional to the decisions made by Labor in the court security and custodial services process, and members opposite supported that. Labor supported Acacia being run by the private sector twice! We also put in place a capital works program for two new prisons—Eastern Goldfields to be run by the Department of Corrective Services and the West Kimberley prison to be run by the Department of Corrective Services. There is no government here charging down the path of privatisation. We are picking the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia, and we are picking the best outcomes to deliver a service to the people in our prison system.
Mr D.T. REDMAN : That is a tough question, member! Who was that? Important, therefore, in cabinet deliberations were a couple of things: first, the comparison with a public sector comparator. Mr F.M. Logan : How do we get somebody else to bid? Mr D.T. REDMAN : I can highlight to the member that it was a very robust process whereby if we were to make a decision around a single tenderer in this case, we had to have a robust public sector comparator to make the comparison—and we did. Although I cannot outline to the house the benefit to the state, because we are still in a process of negotiations to finalise the due diligence process, I can say that it is a significant benefit to the state. We have a target to get the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia. Mr F.M. Logan : In relation to part (2) of the question, which company advised you? Mr D.T. REDMAN : In terms of the work that was done, DCS, the Department of Treasury and the Department of Finance worked through a very robust process to make the comparisons with the public sector comparator to ensure that what is put up stands up to all the formal requirements that government needs to have in place to be assured of for running and managing our prisons. We have confidence that Serco will stand up within the corrective services system. We already have Acacia Prison being run by Serco, which, interestingly, is a position that I think was supported by the Labor Party when it was in government. I also heard on the radio today the Leader of the Opposition carrying on about privatisation. We have made one decision in corrective services additional to the decisions made by Labor in the court security and custodial services process, and members opposite supported that. Labor supported Acacia being run by the private sector twice! We also put in place a capital works program for two new prisons—Eastern Goldfields to be run by the Department of Corrective Services and the West Kimberley prison to be run by the Department of Corrective Services. There is no government here charging down the path of privatisation. We are picking the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia, and we are picking the best outcomes to deliver a service to the people in our prison system.
Important, therefore, in cabinet deliberations were a couple of things: first, the comparison with a public sector comparator. Mr F.M. Logan : How do we get somebody else to bid? Mr D.T. REDMAN : I can highlight to the member that it was a very robust process whereby if we were to make a decision around a single tenderer in this case, we had to have a robust public sector comparator to make the comparison—and we did. Although I cannot outline to the house the benefit to the state, because we are still in a process of negotiations to finalise the due diligence process, I can say that it is a significant benefit to the state. We have a target to get the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia. Mr F.M. Logan : In relation to part (2) of the question, which company advised you? Mr D.T. REDMAN : In terms of the work that was done, DCS, the Department of Treasury and the Department of Finance worked through a very robust process to make the comparisons with the public sector comparator to ensure that what is put up stands up to all the formal requirements that government needs to have in place to be assured of for running and managing our prisons. We have confidence that Serco will stand up within the corrective services system. We already have Acacia Prison being run by Serco, which, interestingly, is a position that I think was supported by the Labor Party when it was in government. I also heard on the radio today the Leader of the Opposition carrying on about privatisation. We have made one decision in corrective services additional to the decisions made by Labor in the court security and custodial services process, and members opposite supported that. Labor supported Acacia being run by the private sector twice! We also put in place a capital works program for two new prisons—Eastern Goldfields to be run by the Department of Corrective Services and the West Kimberley prison to be run by the Department of Corrective Services. There is no government here charging down the path of privatisation. We are picking the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia, and we are picking the best outcomes to deliver a service to the people in our prison system.
Mr F.M. Logan : How do we get somebody else to bid? Mr D.T. REDMAN : I can highlight to the member that it was a very robust process whereby if we were to make a decision around a single tenderer in this case, we had to have a robust public sector comparator to make the comparison—and we did. Although I cannot outline to the house the benefit to the state, because we are still in a process of negotiations to finalise the due diligence process, I can say that it is a significant benefit to the state. We have a target to get the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia. Mr F.M. Logan : In relation to part (2) of the question, which company advised you? Mr D.T. REDMAN : In terms of the work that was done, DCS, the Department of Treasury and the Department of Finance worked through a very robust process to make the comparisons with the public sector comparator to ensure that what is put up stands up to all the formal requirements that government needs to have in place to be assured of for running and managing our prisons. We have confidence that Serco will stand up within the corrective services system. We already have Acacia Prison being run by Serco, which, interestingly, is a position that I think was supported by the Labor Party when it was in government. I also heard on the radio today the Leader of the Opposition carrying on about privatisation. We have made one decision in corrective services additional to the decisions made by Labor in the court security and custodial services process, and members opposite supported that. Labor supported Acacia being run by the private sector twice! We also put in place a capital works program for two new prisons—Eastern Goldfields to be run by the Department of Corrective Services and the West Kimberley prison to be run by the Department of Corrective Services. There is no government here charging down the path of privatisation. We are picking the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia, and we are picking the best outcomes to deliver a service to the people in our prison system.
Mr D.T. REDMAN : I can highlight to the member that it was a very robust process whereby if we were to make a decision around a single tenderer in this case, we had to have a robust public sector comparator to make the comparison—and we did. Although I cannot outline to the house the benefit to the state, because we are still in a process of negotiations to finalise the due diligence process, I can say that it is a significant benefit to the state. We have a target to get the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia. Mr F.M. Logan : In relation to part (2) of the question, which company advised you? Mr D.T. REDMAN : In terms of the work that was done, DCS, the Department of Treasury and the Department of Finance worked through a very robust process to make the comparisons with the public sector comparator to ensure that what is put up stands up to all the formal requirements that government needs to have in place to be assured of for running and managing our prisons. We have confidence that Serco will stand up within the corrective services system. We already have Acacia Prison being run by Serco, which, interestingly, is a position that I think was supported by the Labor Party when it was in government. I also heard on the radio today the Leader of the Opposition carrying on about privatisation. We have made one decision in corrective services additional to the decisions made by Labor in the court security and custodial services process, and members opposite supported that. Labor supported Acacia being run by the private sector twice! We also put in place a capital works program for two new prisons—Eastern Goldfields to be run by the Department of Corrective Services and the West Kimberley prison to be run by the Department of Corrective Services. There is no government here charging down the path of privatisation. We are picking the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia, and we are picking the best outcomes to deliver a service to the people in our prison system.
Mr F.M. Logan : In relation to part (2) of the question, which company advised you? Mr D.T. REDMAN : In terms of the work that was done, DCS, the Department of Treasury and the Department of Finance worked through a very robust process to make the comparisons with the public sector comparator to ensure that what is put up stands up to all the formal requirements that government needs to have in place to be assured of for running and managing our prisons. We have confidence that Serco will stand up within the corrective services system. We already have Acacia Prison being run by Serco, which, interestingly, is a position that I think was supported by the Labor Party when it was in government. I also heard on the radio today the Leader of the Opposition carrying on about privatisation. We have made one decision in corrective services additional to the decisions made by Labor in the court security and custodial services process, and members opposite supported that. Labor supported Acacia being run by the private sector twice! We also put in place a capital works program for two new prisons—Eastern Goldfields to be run by the Department of Corrective Services and the West Kimberley prison to be run by the Department of Corrective Services. There is no government here charging down the path of privatisation. We are picking the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia, and we are picking the best outcomes to deliver a service to the people in our prison system.
Mr D.T. REDMAN : In terms of the work that was done, DCS, the Department of Treasury and the Department of Finance worked through a very robust process to make the comparisons with the public sector comparator to ensure that what is put up stands up to all the formal requirements that government needs to have in place to be assured of for running and managing our prisons. We have confidence that Serco will stand up within the corrective services system. We already have Acacia Prison being run by Serco, which, interestingly, is a position that I think was supported by the Labor Party when it was in government. I also heard on the radio today the Leader of the Opposition carrying on about privatisation. We have made one decision in corrective services additional to the decisions made by Labor in the court security and custodial services process, and members opposite supported that. Labor supported Acacia being run by the private sector twice! We also put in place a capital works program for two new prisons—Eastern Goldfields to be run by the Department of Corrective Services and the West Kimberley prison to be run by the Department of Corrective Services. There is no government here charging down the path of privatisation. We are picking the best outcome for the taxpayers of Western Australia, and we are picking the best outcomes to deliver a service to the people in our prison system.
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