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Ministerial Portfolios

Oral Question monthly activity since Nov 2005

Portfolio Questions count*
ACC 391
Agriculture 246
Arts, Culture and Heritage 62
Attorney-General 62
Auckland Issues 80
Biosecurity 90
Broadcasting 170
Building and Construction 101
Building Issues 28
Civil Defence 52
Climate Change Issues 833
Commerce 150
Communications 48
Communications and Information Technology 53
Community and Voluntary Sector 33
Conservation 177
Consumer Affairs 27
Corrections 691
Courts 93
Crown Research Institutes 11
Customs 10
Defence 156
Deputy Prime Minister 14
Disability Issues 66
Disarmament and Arms Control 29
Economic Development 156
Education 1575
Education Review Office 3
Energy 525
Energy and Resources 169
Environment 362
Ethnic Affairs 6
Finance 2354
Fisheries 144
Food Safety 58
Foreign Affairs 289
Forestry 56
Health 2298
Housing 535
Immigration 774
Industry and Regional Development 3
Information Technology 14
Infrastructure 34
Internal Affairs 121
Justice 1318
Labour 297
Land Information 66
Law Commission 6
Local Government 219
Maori Affairs 454
Ministerial Services 93
Pacific Island Affairs 8
Police 580
Prime Minister 3169
Racing 6
Regulatory Reform 5
Research, Science and Technology 83
Revenue 94
Rugby World Cup 33
Rural Affairs 9
NZ Security Intelligence Service 11
Senior Citizens 39
Small Business 29
Social Development and Employment 1330
Sport and Recreation 19
State Owned Enterprises 113
State Services 279
Statistics 16
Tertiary Education 320
The House 11
Tourism 23
Trade 119
Transport 611
Transport Safety 31
Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations 227
Veterans' Affairs 73
Women's Affairs 53
Youth Affairs 36

* Count of oral questions to the Minister including supplementary questions