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(3) What is the average number of days between a report being tabled and standing order 254A being exercised since the standing order’s commencement.
(4) What is the average number of days between standing order 254A being exercised and a response or explanation being tabled by the Minister since the standing order’s commencement.
(5) Are there any additional orders, guidelines, or procedures that take effect if a report from a previous Assembly has not had a Government response tabled; if so, outline what additional orders, guidelines, or procedures are in place to manage a report from a previous Assembly where there has been no response; if not, do the reports without Government responses remain outstanding in perpetuity.
(6) Is there an onus on committee chairs to exercise standing order 254A at any point after four months have passed since the initial tabling of the report.
(7) What actions are undertaken if the Government has not submitted a response to a report tabled in a previous Assembly.
(8) Do Standing Committee chairs have the power under standing order 254A to ask the relevant Minister for an explanation or statement in relation to an outstanding committee report from a previous Assembly; if not, what are the procedures to obtain a Government response to a report to a committee report from a previous Assembly.
(9) Have there been any discussions or assessments done in relation to inserting a new standing order, or amending standing order 254A, to automatically trigger and require a Minister to provide a response after an allotted period of time has passed.
Madam Speaker: The answer to the member’s question is as follows:
(1) The number of Government responses tabled four months or more after the tabling of a report in the Assembly for the year 2007 to 2016 and year 2017 to date is set out below:
|
Year |
*Government responses tabled four months or more |
|
2007 |
14 |
|
2008 |
18 |
|
2009 |
4 |
|
2010 |
3 |
|
2011 |
7 |
|
2012 |
18 |
|
2013 |
1 |
|
2014 |
2 |
|
2015 |
9 |
|
2016 |
5 |
|
2017 |
1 |
Note: *See attachment for details of (a) committee, (b) report number, (c) report title, (d) date the report released or presented to the Assembly, (e) date the Government response was presented to the Assembly and (f) number of days between the release or presentation of the report to the Assembly and the Government response from 2007 to present.
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