AT least one former government employee is willing to be interviewed by police about the legitimacy of the Fox Taskforce, Windermere MLC Ivan Dean says.
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Mr Dean handed a 150-page report to Tasmania Police and the Integrity Commission on Monday that raised concerns about the work carried out by the taskforce.
The report was prepared by a team of investigators and it is understood to contain a leaked government document which supports those concerns.
The report has been reviewed by legal experts, scientists and former police officers.
Police are treating the report like an official complaint and are considering an investigation.
On Wednesday, Mr Dean said he would submit a second report to police in coming days.
The "supplementary" complaint features the contact information of at least one former taskforce member who approached Mr Dean following his meeting with Tasmania Police on Monday.
The former employee is said to be "extremely anxious" about the ordeal, but is willing to speak out.
Meanwhile, Primary Industries Minister Jeremy Rockliff said the former government's last fox funding agreement - worth almost $2 million - was due to expire in mid-2017.
He said the government would discuss future biosecurity funding with the Commonwealth, but said any future funding would not be spent specifically on foxes.
The Fox Taskforce was established in 2002 to respond to rumours that a fox population have become established on the island.
It was abolished in 2014.
The former government spent $50 million trying to find and eradicate a fox population on the island.
Despite the discovery of dead foxes, fox body parts and scats in Tasmania between 2001 and 2011, no irrefutable proof - like a live fox or fox den - was ever discovered.
On Tuesday, the museum that holds most of the state's fox material said it no longer considered its collection to be "evidence" of foxes in Tasmania.
- cclarke@fairfaxmedia.com.au
