Total contractor expenditure from past two financial years

Response to this request is long overdue. By law, under all circumstances, Tasmanian Department of Health and Human Services should have responded by now (details). You can complain by requesting an internal review.

Dear Tasmanian Department of Health and Human Services,

Pursuant to Right To Information ("RTI") please provide the document that sets out the total materialised expenditure for consultants for the past two financial years.

This request is made using special public interest platform called Right To Know ("RTK") and acts as public interest - both the request and response is automatically publicly available.

Under the RTI there should be no fees charged.

Yours faithfully,

MissAnonymous

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