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❓ A member of parliament requests detailed information on legal advice expenditure across departments and agencies under the Minister's control. The Minister declines to provide the information due to the resource burden of gathering it, offering to respond to specific queries instead.

AnsweredQoN 1631Legislative Council

Asked

4 May 2005

Member

Hon Ray Halligan

Portfolio

Peel and the South West

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For each Department and Agency under the Minister’s control, including the Ministerial office, will the Minister provide the following information -
(1) The total amount spent on legal advice since July 1 2003?
(2) The name of each provider of legal advice?
(3) The amount paid to each provider of legal advice?
(4) The service for which the payments were made?

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Answered

21 June 2005

Responded by

Parliamentary Secretary representing the Minister for Peel and the South West

Response time

48 days

The detailed information sought by the member is not readily available. Provision of the information would require considerable research which would diverts staff away from their normal duties. However, if the Member has a specific query I will endeavour to provide a response.

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