Therefore, I move that this committee recommends that all requests from the Department of Health to health and hospital boards for budgetary, statistical and other administrative information should be made only by the deputy minister of Health;

And further, that information requests should be limited in number and scope to only those which are essential for the efficient and effective operation of territorial health services;

And further, that the time frame for board response to departmental information requests should be reasonable and established with due consideration to other priorities which have been identified at the regional level. Mahsi.