(1)What (a) number of suppliers did business with the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS) in the past two financial years and since 1 April 2017, (b) are the relevant details of the (i) names of the specified suppliers, (ii) goods and/or services procured and (iii) monetary value of each contract and (c) number of the suppliers did not have tax clearance certificates;
(2) who finalised and signed each contract with suppliers that did not have tax clearance certificates;
(3) whether an investigation was conducted in each case where a contract was signed with a supplier that did not have a tax clearance certificate; if so, why did the NIHSS do business with suppliers that did not have tax clearance certificates;
(4) whether any of the officials involved in procuring goods and/or services from suppliers that did not have tax clearance certificates were related to directors of the suppliers in any way;
(5) whether any disciplinary proceedings were instituted against officials responsible for contracts with suppliers that did not have tax clearance certificates; if not, why not; if so, what were the outcomes of the disciplinary proceedings?