Hon Colin de Grussa asks about the public release of a Forest Products Commission review into sharefarmer payments. The Minister responds that the report contains commercially confidential information and was provided to the Auditor General, finding no systemic issues.

AnsweredQoN 309Legislative Council
Asked
6 April 2022
Portfolio
Forestry

QuestionView source ↗

FOREST PRODUCTS
COMMISSION — SHAREFARMING
309. Hon COLIN de GRUSSA to the minister representing the
Minister for Forestry:
I refer to the minister's
response to question without notice 643.
(1) Did the
Forest Products Commission publicly release the June 2021 review into payments
to sharefarmers before the end of 2021; and, if so, can the minister please
table the report?
(2) If no to (1), why not and when
will the report be publicly released?
(3) Will the minister respond to
that report and by what date?
(4) If no to (3), why not?

AnswerView source ↗

I thank the member for some notice
of the question. The Minister for Forestry has provided the following answer.
(1) No.
(2) The report
contains commercially confidential information. A copy of the report was
provided to the Office of the Auditor General on 15 July 2021.
(3)–(4) The
internal audit report was produced to support system improvement, as well as to
validate historical payments. The report found no systemic issues with
sharefarmer payments.

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