That the Minister representing the Minister for Finance and Administration (Senator Abetz) provide to the Finance and Public Administration References Committee by 26 March 2001 the following documents relating to that committee's inquiry into the Government's information technology (IT) outsourcing initiative:

(a) a copy of the legal advice obtained by the Department of Finance and Administration from Phillips Fox, referred to in evidence at the public hearing on 7 February 2001;

(b) a record of documents generated by the Humphry Review and their current location;

(c) a copy of advice from KPMG on whether the IT outsourcing service contracts contained embedded finance leases;

(d) copies of the evaluation reports for IT contracts that have been let, with information identified as commercially sensitive `blacked out' and providing the reasons for such claims;

(e) a copy of legal advice that the disclosure of evaluation reports to the committee may create a significant risk of litigation to the Commonwealth;

(f) a copy of a letter and attachments from the Minister for Finance and Administration (Mr Fahey) dated 20 January 1999 to ministers that gives further detail about the Office of Asset Sales and Information Technology Outsourcing's role in going forward with the implementation of the IT initiative and advice as to whether the letter was provided to the Humphry Review;

(g) details of the transition arrangements and the operation of the Office of Asset Sales and Information Technology Outsourcing (OASITO) for the next 6 months, including:

(i) arrangements with the consultants that OASITO previously had on the books,

(ii) who is to be retained,

(iii) precisely which contracts have been terminated and when, and

(iv) ongoing liabilities in terms of contract commitments after 31 December 2001; and

(h) copies of financial advice from Pricewater-houseCoopers, dated 26 May 2000, and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, dated 10 May 2000, on the methodology used to calculate savings.