Thursday, 2 July 2020, 11:44 am Press Release: Office of the Clerk
Questions to Ministers
Hon NIKKI KAYE to the
Prime Minister: Is she confident the Government is
delivering on its infrastructure commitments, particularly
its commitment to light rail from the city to the airport in
Auckland?
MARAMA DAVIDSON to the Minister of
Education: How many children does he expect to benefit from
the recently announced Government’s free and healthy
school lunches programme?
Hon PAUL GOLDSMITH to the
Minister of Finance: What did he mean yesterday by his
comment on the tax system that “by and large, it is fair
and balanced”, and does he think changes to the tax system
will be required?
Hon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE to the
Minister of Health: Did any records held by the Ministry of
Health on 17 June contain details of whether all 2,159
people who left managed isolation between 9 and 16 June
received a test before they left managed
isolation?
TAMATI COFFEY to the Minister for
Economic Development: What action has the Government taken
to help save jobs and protect incomes in the domestic events
and screen sectors?
CHRIS BISHOP to the Minister for
Infrastructure: What criteria, if any, did the Government
use to allocate the $239 million announced yesterday from
the $3 billion allocated to infrastructure in the COVID-19
Recovery and Response Fund, and what explains the length of
time between his announcement that the Government had had
1,924 submissions to the Infrastructure Industry Reference
Group and the announcement yesterday?
Dr SHANE RETI
to the Minister of Employment: How does the performance and
capacity of his employment programmes help the thousands of
New Zealanders who are unemployed due to the coronavirus
outbreak?
GINNY ANDERSEN to the Minister for Sport
and Recreation: What progress has been made on the
implementation of the Government’s Women and Girls in
Sport and Active Recreation strategy?
MATT DOOCEY to
the Minister of Health: How much of the $1.9 billion
allocated for mental health and drug addiction services in
Budget 2019 has been committed for mental health and
addiction treatment services, and how much, if any, of that
allocation to mental health and addiction treatment services
has been spent to date?
NICOLA WILLIS to the
Minister of Housing: Have any developers undertaking
construction of market homes approached the Government for
an indemnity or underwrite that would provide additional
financial assurance to their banks, and, if approaches of
this sort have been made, what steps has the Government
taken to ensure it applies fair and transparent criteria to
assessing or granting these applications?
GREG
O'CONNOR to the Minister of Justice: What recent
announcements has he made regarding the Criminal Cases
Review Commission?
SIMEON BROWN to the Minister of
Corrections: How many individuals sentenced to community
service have had hours remitted to date under the Epidemic
Preparedness (Epidemic Management—COVID-19—Parole Act
2002 and Sentencing Act 2002) Notice 2020, and how many
hours were remitted under this
notice?
