Newfoundland and Labrador Health Minister Paul Oram speaks with CBC News on Sept. 14. (CBC)

Newfoundland and Labrador's government has yet to deliver on a promise to release documents about health-care spending to the media.

Earlier this week, Health Minister Paul Oram told CBC News he would have his department release a letter it sent the Central Health regional authority last February asking for ways to reduce health-care spending.

"I've asked my officials to put that information together and we'll release that without any issue at all," said Oram on Monday, Sept. 14.

CBC News hasn't received it.

Late Friday afternoon, Sept. 11, the Health Department released letters from Central Health to the media to explain how the province made its decision to cut laboratory and X-ray services in rural Newfoundland.

Shortly after the letters went out, a Health Department official said Oram would have no further comment to make on the matter.

"It wasn't that I wasn't available," he told CBC News Monday. "I didn't see any point in commenting. I thought it was very, very self-explanatory that this is exactly what we had said, and what I had said, in the house of assembly."

Oram said the letters from Central Health were a response to a government request for information about ways it could reduce health-care spending during preparation for its annual budget.

In the letters, Central Health outlined 14 cost-saving measures, including cutting X-ray services in Lewisporte.

Health officials have also been slow to respond to a related request for information.

CBC News has also asked for copies of letters the province received from other health authorities, Eastern Health, Western Health and Labrador Health, when it was preparing for last year's annual budget.

Eastern Health punted the request to the Health Department, which said it would respond in a week.

"The minister and departmental executive are attending federal, provincial and territorial meetings and we'll look into your request upon our return," said department spokeswoman, Ronalda Walsh.

She's due back in her office Sept. 21.