QUESTIONS FOR ORAL ANSWER

Tuesday, 16 June 2009

Questions to Ministers

1. CRAIG FOSS to the Minister of Finance: What reports has he received on lending practices in the banking sector?

2. Hon PHIL GOFF to the Prime Minister: Is he satisfied with the way in which his Ministers have handled the restructuring of Auckland’s governance arrangements?

3. CHRIS AUCHINVOLE to the Minister for the Environment: What number of consents were processed outside of the statutory timeframes as identified in the latest Ministry for the Environment report on the administration of the Resource Management Act; and how does this compare historically?

4. Hon ANNETTE KING to the Minister for Social Development and Employment: What consultation did she undertake with Ministers before making changes in Budget 2009 relating to the Ministry of Social Development?

5. SANDRA GOUDIE to the Minister of Corrections: What is the Government doing to enable the Corrections Department to improve the management of offenders on parole?

6. Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE to the Minister of Finance: Does he stand by all his recent statements?

7. Dr KENNEDY GRAHAM to the Minister of Foreign Affairs: Which United Nations Security Council resolution formed the legal basis for the deployment of the New Zealand Special Air Service to Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom from 2001 to 2005; and, would that resolution apply to any further deployment in 2009?

8. Hon MARYAN STREET to the Minister for Tertiary Education: How does she expect cuts in Adult and Community Education to “…ensure that New Zealand is positioned to take advantage of the economic recovery as it happens” as she has stated previously about the Government’s aim in Vote Education?

9. COLIN KING to the Minister of Fisheries: What reports has he received regarding New Zealand’s hoki fishery?

10. Hon TREVOR MALLARD to the Associate Minister Education: Which reductions within the appropriations in Vote Education in the 2009/10 Budget will adversely affect students with special needs and what input did she have into those decisions?

11. KATRINA SHANKS to the Minister for Social Development and Employment: What recent reports has she received on the Community Response Fund?

12. Hon PETE HODGSON to the Prime Minister: Why did he lose confidence in Dr Richard Worth as a Minister?

ENDS

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