❓ A parliamentary question regarding the sale of the Water Corporation's engineering and construction business to RCR Tomlinson Ltd, focusing on contract transparency, staff transfers, and costs. The Minister declines to release the contract and business case due to confidentiality and internal deliberation.
AnsweredQoN 3351Legislative Council
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I refer to the Minister for Water's announcement that RCR Tomlinson Ltd will purchase the engineering and construction business of the Water Corporation, and I ask: (a) will the contract between RCR Tomlinson Ltd and the Water Corporation be made public; (b) if yes to (a), when; (c) if no to (a), why not; (d) will the business case prepared in relation to the sale be made public; (e) if yes to (d), when; (f) if no to (d), why not; (g) how many of the affected Water Corporation staff have chosen to transfer to RCR Tomlinson Ltd, and what will the total final payments to those staff be; (h) how many of the affected Water Corporation staff have chosen not to transfer to RCR Tomlinson Ltd and of these, how many will be made redundant and at what cost; and (i) excluding amounts included in (g) and (h), what has the total cost of the sale process been, including staff time, to the Water Corporation to date, and what is the final cost expected to be?
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Answered
23 September 2015
Responded by
Minister for Agriculture and Food representing the Minister for Water
Response time
35 days
The Minister for Water has provided the following response.
a) No.
b) Not applicable.
c) This is a commercial contract which contains a confidentiality clause. I would be putting the Water Corporation in breach of this contract, if I were to release it publicly.
d) No.
e) Not applicable.
f) The business case forms part of an internal deliberative process of the Water Corporation.
g) 114, with total final payments in the order of $2.2 million.
h) 56. As at 1 September, these employees will be supported through the Water Corporation's three week redeployment and redundancy process. Until this has ended, how many will be redundant and at what cost cannot be determined.
i) $1.3 million (31 August 2015). The total final figure is expected to be in the order of $2.4 million.
a) No.
b) Not applicable.
c) This is a commercial contract which contains a confidentiality clause. I would be putting the Water Corporation in breach of this contract, if I were to release it publicly.
d) No.
e) Not applicable.
f) The business case forms part of an internal deliberative process of the Water Corporation.
g) 114, with total final payments in the order of $2.2 million.
h) 56. As at 1 September, these employees will be supported through the Water Corporation's three week redeployment and redundancy process. Until this has ended, how many will be redundant and at what cost cannot be determined.
i) $1.3 million (31 August 2015). The total final figure is expected to be in the order of $2.4 million.
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