SINGAPORE – From potential and actual conflicts of interest to why the Singapore Land Authority (SLA) forks out money to upkeep black-and-white bungalows, MPs aired questions for close to six hours on Monday about Minister for Law and Home Affairs K. Shanmugam and Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan renting Ridout Road properties. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE – From potential and actual conflicts of interest to why the Singapore Land Authority forks out money to upkeep black-and-white bungalows, MPs aired questions for close to six hours on Monday about Minister for Law and Home Affairs K. Shanmugam and Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan renting Ridout Road properties.
The new declaration would mean the officers in organisations who have access to privileged information or who can influence the outcomes of decisions, will have to take this extra step of making a declaration before they can rent the government properties managed by their agencies. Instead of asking SLA directly, Mr Shanmugam said the Deputy Secretary would have informed the Permanent Secretary who would be able to report to the head of the Civil Service or the Prime Minister if he felt the need to.Several MPs questioned whether Mr Shanmugam asking his Deputy Secretary for a list of properties that were available for the public to rent represented a conflict of interest. SLA comes under the MinLaw.
Dr Balakrishnan decided to rent 31 Ridout Road despite the property being in an “advanced state of disrepair” and did extensive repairs to make the house liveable. He added that the works done by SLA were in keeping with SLA’s general practices. The SLA engaged consultants with experience in dealing with heritage properties, to survey the property and identify the necessary improvement and maintenance works to be done for both properties.
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