Oral Questions for Thursday 7 April 2022

Questions to Ministers ANGELA ROBERTS to the Minister of Education: What is the Government doing to encourage healthy drinks in schools? DEBBIE NGAREWA-PACKER to the Minister for Social Development and Employment: Does she agree with the Child Poverty Action Group, who said in October 2021, "in the face of abundant evidence that the stop-gap measures initiated in the first 2020 lockdown for low-income families were nowhere near enough, this year, unbelievably, the Government has done even less"; if not, why not? NICOLA WILLIS to the Prime Minister: Does she have confidence in all of her Ministers? BARBARA EDMONDS to the Minister for the Environment: What announcements has the Government made about supporting the restoration of waterways? CHRIS BISHOP to the Associate Minister of Housing (Public Housing): How many people were on the Housing Register in September 2017 compared to today, and what is the median wait time for people on the Housing Register to be housed in public housing? Dr EMILY HENDERSON to the Minister of Internal Affairs: What work is the Government progressing to reduce gambling harm in vulnerable communities? Hon MARK MITCHELL to the Minister of Police: Does she stand by her statement regarding the reported blowout in police response times, "I am not over the detail of that"; if so, why? KAREN CHHOUR to the Minister for Social Development and Employment: Does she believe that jobseeker beneficiaries who fail to meet their work obligations should have their benefits reduced; if so, why were work-related benefit sanctions in the last quarter of the last year less than half what they were in 2019? SHANAN HALBERT to the Minister of Transport: What updates has he seen regarding the Government's Clean Car Programme? ERICA STANFORD to the Minister of Immigration: Are there migrant doctors or nurses currently in New Zealand who are not eligible to apply for the 2021 Resident Visa, and, if there are, will he change the criteria so that all migrant doctors and nurses are eligible to apply to stay in New Zealand? NAISI CHEN to the Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs: What recent announcements has he made regarding business transparency? CHLÖE SWARBRICK to the Minister of Housing: Does she agree that rent prices are contributing to hardship; if so, what steps, if any, will she take to lower them?