So there was no ranking.
In other words, the third party panel was actually two companies that the ministry hired to do this work. Would they have been aware of the fact that for the one big project that was approved, the one in Durham, the finance minister used to sit on the board of that centre? Would they have been aware that the finance minister's wife sits on the board? Would they have been aware that the finance minister's executive assistant also sits on the board and that all of this might be perceived by some to be a huge conflict of interest?