QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS
1. TODD McCLAY to the Minister of Finance: How is the Government’s economic programme helping New Zealand manage through current global uncertainty?
2. Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS to the Minister of Finance: Is he confident that the Government’s economic and fiscal strategy is on track; if so, why?
3. DAVID SHEARER to the Prime Minister: Does he stand by all his statements?
4. Dr RUSSEL NORMAN to the Minister of Finance: What is the value of contracts entered into to date for spending on advertising, communications and banking services
relating to the Government’s asset sales programme?
5. Dr PAUL HUTCHISON to the Minister of Health: How is the Voluntary Bonding Scheme improving health services?
6. Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE to the Minister of Energy and Resources: Does he agree with Molly Melhuish’s calculation that the amount charged by SOEs for electricity for an average consumer
is $265 per annum less than is charged by non-SOE retailers, and if not, what was the weighted average of the annual
total retail price charged by SOEs and their subsidiaries to a residential consumer using 8,000 kilowatt hours of
electricity compared with the weighted average of the price charged by non-SOE suppliers, according to the most recent
data?
7. Hon TAU HENARE to the Minister of Trade: Can he confirm that Mexico is now a full participant in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement?
8. CHRIS HIPKINS to the Associate Minister of Education: Does he stand by his statement with regard to the public-private partnership for the Hobsonville schools “you can be
assured that the contract that we’ve signed today, the taxpayer will be better off under this arrangement”?
9. MELISSA LEE to the Minister for Social Development: How will the Government’s welfare reforms, currently before the House, support young people on a collision course with
the welfare system?
10. KEVIN HAGUE to the Minister for ACC: Will she return ACC to the pay-as-you-go funding model, outlined in the Green Party’s ACC Rehabilitation Plan and
emailed to her this morning, and are there any points in the plan she will not consider implementing?
11. ANDREW LITTLE to the Minister for ACC: On how many occasions, and for what periods of time on each occasion, did she meet with or have discussions with the ACC
Chairman or Chief Executive, including about the matter of the mass privacy breach involving Bronwyn Pullar, between 13
March and 19 March when that matter was referred to the Police by way of formal complaint?
12. JONATHAN YOUNG to the Minister of Energy and Resources: What decisions were made in Budget 2012/13 about the Warm Up New Zealand Programme?
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