Wendy Askew (Tasmania, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

At the request of Senator Cash, I move:

That—

(a) the Senate notes that, as at 9 am on Monday, 6 February 2023, 567 questions on notice from the October and November 2022-23 Budget estimates remain unanswered and are overdue:

(i) Prime Minister and Cabinet, 143 questions,

(ii) Social Services, 118 questions,

(iii) Employment and Workplace Relations, 108 questions,

(iv) Treasury, 52 questions,

(v) Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts, 38 questions,

(vi) Finance, 32 questions,

(vii) Health and Aged Care, 26 questions,

(viii) Foreign Affairs and Trade, 20 questions,

(ix) Attorney-General's, 19 questions,

(x) Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, 8 questions,

(xi) Industry, Science and Resources, 2 questions, and

(xii) Defence, 1 question;

(b) there be laid on the table by the Leader of the Government in the Senate, by no later than 9 am on Friday, 10 February 2023, the answers to all 567 unanswered questions on notice from the October and November 2022-23 Budget estimates; and

(c) if the Senate is not sitting when the documents are ready for presentation, the documents are to be presented to the President under standing order 166.

Question agreed to.