<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>26:53 question eight doctor bruce gregory <,> doctor gregory question eight <&>27:00 <,,><&>11 well if <,> my question is to the minister of police and asks order how did the total number of reported offences in northland during nineteen eighty nine compare <,> with the total in nineteen eighty eight the honourable richard prebble <,,><&>3 good work i've forgotten too mister speaker i was so carried away by his er mister speaker order <,,> mister <&>drawl speaker <,> the total number of reported offences in the northland police district for the year ended thirty first of december nineteen eighty nine was thirteen thousand four hundred and ninety seven compared to a total of fourteen thousand six hundred and <&>28:00 ninety seven reported offences for the year ended thirty first of december nineteen eighty eight <,> this represents a DEcrease of eight point one six percent for the honourable member who can't add up order <,> no i think we'll just go on to number nine murray mccully mister speaker <,,> no no no number nine mister speaker my question is to the minister of immigration and asks how many organisations were invited to tender to clear the backlog of immigration applications in the hong kong office the honourable annette king mister speaker the backlog is of business asSESsments for applications made under the business immigration policy not immigration applications as such twenty one organisations were invited to tender speaker supplementary question murray mccully mister speaker in view of the <,> fact that a single firm is i understand to be appointed as result of the tenders and that the scheme is described in the tender document as a pilot <&>29:00 scheme <,> can the minister advise as to whether general accreditation which i understand is the government's policy of of consultants will follow the same model namely tendering resulting in a single appointment being made of a preferred consultant the honourable annette <{><[>king <[><.>n no mister speaker i cannot confirm that that will be the way we accredit consultants in fact i haven't looked at it in that way at all question ten doctor peter simpson mister speaker my question is to the minister of police and asks how did the total number of reported offences on the west coast during the <.>ninet nineteen eighty nine compare with the total in nineteen eighty eight the honourable richard <{><[>prebble <[>mister speaker the total number of reported offences on the west coast police district for the year ended thirty first of december nineteen eight nine was four thousand nine hundred and twenty one compared to a total of five thousand two hundred and forty nine reported offences for the year ended the thirty first of december nineteen eighty <&>30:00 eight now this represents a DEcrease of six point two five percent <.>qu question eleven ian mclain <,,><&>6 er roger mcclay mister speaker on behalf of my colleague the er member for tarawera i ask the minister of internal affairs is steven mills employed on contract in the office of the deputy prime minister if so in what capacity the right honourable jonathan hunt on behalf of the minister of internal affairs i reply mister steven mills IS employed on contract in the office of the deputy prime minister as an executive assistant <,,><&>3 er winston peters er could the er <,> leader of the house tell the er tell his colleagues in the public as to exactly what are the special duties of this er mister steven mills no mister speaker not the same as michael laws <&>31:00 mister steven mills is an incredibly <{1><[1>able <,> is an incredibly able <.>pr private secretary and executive assistant who's served well this government unlike michael laws who seems all he's done is to take that as a stepping stone for the hawkes <{2><[2>bay word <[1>order <[2>a point of order speaker point of order <{><[>sir mister speaker <[>order i just want er some order first a point of order winston peters speaker really sir <.>the the departure from the ministerial requirements to something er verging on political propaganda is not admitted by standing orders <{><[><,> and the difference fundamentally is sir that this person helping <&>pronounced as happening <.>he helping in the er case of the deputy prime minister has seen her go from three points down to zero on the <.>prop on the popularity rating whereas mister michael laws work is the reverse <[>order order <,> well i think i'm going to have to allow the member to speak to the point of order having er coughs having er had that <{><[>spurious point of order <[>all i want to say is that mister michael <&>32:00 laws seems to have used his time in the opposition research unit as an as a stepping stone to standing for parliament a lot of other members of opposition <.>re <.>r research unit haven't've been order <&>six seconds of untranscribable dialogue with two unidentifiable speakers order order members er members just resume their seats for a moment i'll <.>i <.>i order i'm happy to advise them that the time for questions has expired <,,> <.>tha <.>tha yes that was question ten er but we now come to the time that members have been anticipating the <&>drawl general debate under standing order ninety two would some honourable member care to move that the house take note of miscellaneous business <&>32:43