Actuarial assessment referred to in publication dated 15 November 2002
Dear Department of the Treasury,
The publication available online dated 15 November 2002, Joint Communique - Ministerial Meeting on Public Liability Insurance, includes:
Actuarial assessment
Ministers noted an actuarial assessment on the Ipp Report recommendations provided by PricewaterhouseCoopers. The assessment showed that the implementation of elements of the Ipp Report could be expected to deliver an initial reduction in public liability premiums in the order of 13.5 per cent, where it can be quantified, and an 80 per cent reduction in the number of small claims. Further, the behavioural effects of adopting the suite of Ipp recommendations on the definition of negligence, duty of care, and other recommendations on liability reform should result in significantly larger savings over time. Significant reductions in medical indemnity insurance premiums of between 15 per cent and 18 per cent were also estimated for most jurisdictions.
I am seeking:
1. a copy of the document referred to as the Actuarial assessment in the above publication; and
2. a copy of the document provided by PricewaterhouseCoopers that was referred to in the above publication.
Yours faithfully,
Julie Middleton
Dear Ms Middleton
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Dear Ms Middleton
Please find attached correspondence in relation to your FOI request.
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Dear Department of the Treasury,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Department of the Treasury's handling of my FOI request 'Actuarial assessment referred to in publication dated 15 November 2002'.
I do not accept that no minutes of the ministerial meeting exist.
The steps for a formal meeting begin with scheduling the meeting and inviting participants.
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Following the meeting, the minutes are distributed or shared. The minutes would either have been emailed to invitees or shared in a cloud-based system.
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A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/a...
Yours faithfully,
Julie Middleton
Dear Ms Middleton
Please see the attached correspondence regarding FOI 2525.
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Dear Ms Middleton
Please see the attached correspondence.
Kind regards
Freedom of Information Officer
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-----Original Message-----
From: Julie Middleton <[FOI #5960 email]>
Sent: Friday, 13 December 2019 7:14 PM
To: FOI <[email address]>
Subject: Internal review of Freedom of Information request - Actuarial assessment referred to in publication dated 15 November 2002
Dear Department of the Treasury,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Department of the Treasury's handling of my FOI request 'Actuarial assessment referred to in publication dated 15 November 2002'.
I do not accept that no minutes of the ministerial meeting exist.
The steps for a formal meeting begin with scheduling the meeting and inviting participants.
The minutes of a meeting are official and legal record of who was present, absentees and what was decided during the meeting.
Following the meeting, the minutes are distributed or shared. The minutes would either have been emailed to invitees or shared in a cloud-based system.
As stated in the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Cth) document includes:
(a) any of, or any part of any of, the following things:
(i) any paper or other material on which there is writing;
(ii) a map, plan, drawing or photograph;
(iii) any paper or other material on which there are marks, figures, symbols or perforations having a meaning for persons qualified to interpret them;
(iv) any article or material from which sounds, images or writings are capable of being reproduced with or without the aid of any other article or device;
(v) any article on which information has been stored or recorded, either mechanically or electronically;
(vi) any other record of information; or
(b) any copy, reproduction or duplicate of such a thing; or
(c) any part of such a copy, reproduction or duplicate;
but does not include:
(d) material maintained for reference purposes that is otherwise publicly available; or
(e) Cabinet notebooks.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/a...
Yours faithfully,
Julie Middleton
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Please see the attached correspondence regarding FOI 2625.
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