1. LESLEY SOPER to the Minister of Health: What steps has he taken to improve the affordability, accessibility and quality of primary health care for all New Zealanders?

2. Hon BILL ENGLISH to the Minister of Finance: Will he invoke section 12 of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand Act 1989 now that the Official Cash Rate has increased to 8.25 percent?

3. JEANETTE FITZSIMONS to the Minister of Finance: What economic and fiscal strategies is he developing to prepare New Zealand for the impact of an “extremely tight” oil market within five years where oil production may not be able to keep up with demand, as predicted by the International Energy Agency’s Medium-Term Oil Market Report earlier this month?

4. Hon BILL ENGLISH to the Prime Minister: Does she have confidence in the Minister for the Environment; if so, why?

5. MARTIN GALLAGHER to the Minister of Local Government: What reports, if any, has he received on the uptake of the rates rebate scheme?

6. GERRY BROWNLEE to the Minister for the Environment: Did the Chief Executive of the Ministry for the Environment ever ask him for his opinion on the appointment of Madeleine Setchell as the communications manager of the ministry; if so, what did he say?

7. R DOUG WOOLERTON to the Minister of Finance: What impact has the Reserve Bank’s primary function to focus on price stability had on New Zealand’s interest and exchange rates over the last six months?

8. Hon TONY RYALL to the Minister of Health: Was the Hawke’s Bay District Health Board’s $1.1 million caregiver training contract with Wellcare, a subsidiary of Healthcare New Zealand, publicly tendered; if not, why not?

9. TIM BARNETT to the Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector: What is the Government doing to encourage and support volunteering?

10. KATHERINE RICH to the Minister of Education: What specific steps did he or his office take last week to check whether the art teacher, who posted hard-core pornographic pictures of himself and two women on internet sex sites, with messages for girls “the younger the better”, was not working in any capacity in any school, which led him to make the categorical statements that “this person is not teaching anywhere right now.” and that he “is not employed at any school.”?

11. TE URUROA FLAVELL to the Minister for Transport Safety: He kaha tana whakapono ki te Mana Tohu Rererangi o Aotearoa, otira, ki tana ake mahi whakamana topito wahi pareora o nga taunga rererangi?

Translation: Does he have confidence in the Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand, in particular its work relating to the certification of runway end safety areas?

12. Dr the Hon LOCKWOOD SMITH to the Minister of Immigration: What was the average time for the approval of applicants under the Talented (Accredited Employers) Work Policy in 2006/07?

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