SINGAPORE, July 4 — Law Minister K Shanmugam said he asked his ministry’s deputy secretary for a list of public properties to rent, rather than approach the Singapore Land...
Mr Shanmugam and his family rented 26 Ridout Road while Dr Balakrishnan and his family rented 31 Ridout Road.
“They are not secret or privileged information. If they are secret, SLA cannot rent out its properties,” Mr Shanmugam said. Mr Singh also asked how Mr Teo’s report reconciled this action with the Ministerial Code of Conduct and the Prime Minister’s rules for MPs from the ruling People’s Action Party requiring that ministers keep their private and official affairs separate.
For example, Mr Leon Perera had asked how it was not “problematic” that Mr Shanmugam had asked for information on property in a consolidated factsheet through his ministry’s deputy secretary when some of this information, including the 26 Ridout Road listing, was not available on the SLA’s online portal for state property information.
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