Wednesday, 26 March 2003

QUESTIONS FOR ORAL ANSWER

QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS

1. Hon BILL ENGLISH to the Prime Minister: Does she have confidence in all her Ministers; if so, why?

2. H V ROSS ROBERTSON to the Minister of State Services: What reports has he received on the public response to the Government web portal?

3. STEPHEN FRANKS to the Minister in charge of Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations: Why does the Initialled Deed of Settlement for presentation to Ngati Awa provide for owners of Kaingaroa Forest land to pay access fees to use roads on a willing, but not anxious, arms length basis?

4. Dr LYNDA SCOTT to the Minister of Health: Does the ongoing situation of keeping unwell patients with a psychiatric illness in police cells constitute a crisis in mental health services; if not, why not?

5. Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS to the Minister of Fisheries: What is his ministry’s policy on consultation with Maori?

6. Hon Dr NICK SMITH to the Minister for Biosecurity: What confidence does he have in the Government’s biosecurity systems when in the last six months there have been at least nine breaches, notably the gum leaf skeletoniser and the plum pox potyvirus and in the last week the fall webworm in Mount Wellington and the crazy ants at the Port of Tauranga?

7. LARRY BALDOCK to the Minister of Police: Has he been informed of any Police strategy to address the problem, acknowledged by the Minister of Justice in his reply to an Oral Question on 27 February 2003, that “gangs are acting frequently in the sex industry at the moment with far too little controls on what they are doing”?

8. Hon BRIAN DONNELLY to the Minister of Education: What are the implications of the increase in foreign fee-paying students at primary and secondary schools?

9. ROD DONALD to the Minister for Trade Negotiations: Has he been informed of submissions from the Council of Trade Unions and Local Government New Zealand that the timeframe for consultation on New Zealand’s initial offer in the General Agreement on Trade in Services negotiations was too short; if so, will the Government refrain from forwarding an initial offer on 31 March 2003, as requested by the Council of Trade Unions?

10. NANAIA MAHUTA to the Minister for the Environment: What initiatives has the Government taken to ensure the ongoing quality and supply of fresh water in New Zealand?

11. Hon MURRAY McCULLY to the Minister of Maori Affairs: What has been the total expenditure on capacity building and capacity assessment grants by Te Puni Kokiri since the commencement of the programme formerly known as Closing the Gaps and now referred to as reducing inequalities, and what monitoring or evaluation has taken place to identify the benefits of these grants?

12. Dr ASHRAF CHOUDHARY to the Minister for Ethnic Affairs: What recent initiatives has the Government taken to recognise New Zealand’s growing ethnic diversity?

QUESTIONS TO MEMBERS

1. Hon KEN SHIRLEY to the Chairperson of the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee: Has a committee meeting been set to consider the petition of Kenneth Wang and others requesting a review of the new English Language immigration tests?

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