6. Provincial Growth Fund—Release of Funding InformationHon PAUL GOLDSMITH (National) to the Minister for Regional Economic DevelopmentProvincial Growth Fund—Release of Funding Information6. Hon PAUL GOLDSMITH (National) to the Minister for Regional Economic Development: Does he agree with MBIE Deputy Chief Executive Paul Stocks' 12 April comments to the Economic Development Science and Innovation Committee in relation to the Provincial Growth Fund we are working on the basis that we want a good deal of sunlight where public money is involved"; if so will he instruct his officials at MBIE to release any funding agreements between MBIE and the recipients of funds for the projects announced so far?Hon SHANE JONES (Minister for Regional Economic Development): In respect of said official's remarks yes I think that he's accurately reflected. We want a good deal of sunlight and he also knows that sunrise is coming to the provinces politically.Hon Paul Goldsmith: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. It was a two-part question. He didn't answer the second part at all.SPEAKER: Well the member can ask two parts. All the Minister has to do is address the question and he certainly did.Hon Paul Goldsmith: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I understood and perhaps I'm wrong that for a primary question where it had two parts you are supposed to address both parts of the question.SPEAKER: The member is probably right. I will ask the member to give some comments—[Interruption] When I'm ruling in favour of one of the member's colleagues it's probably a good idea to keep the member's mouth shut otherwise it might result in either a decision reversal or a further loss of a significant number supplementaries. The member is slightly lucky that I didn't get on my feet.Hon SHANE JONES: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. Sir there are distinctly two limbs to the question and we all know that I have met the threshold by addressing the first limb.SPEAKER: If it was a supplementary question the answer to that is yes. When it's a primary question and has two limbs just saying "sunrise" doesn't get him there for the second part.Hon SHANE JONES: In respect of instructing officials at the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment (MBIE) to release funding between MBIE and the recipients of funds for the projects announced so far I think I'll take the advice of the former Auditor-General who described funding under the last regime as not only non-transparent but very very dangerous.Hon Paul Goldsmith: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. That did not at all answer the question.SPEAKER: I think it did address the question. Does the member want a supplementary?Hon Paul Goldsmith: Bearing in mind Mr Stock's later comment to the same committee "Pretty hard to imagine that anyone is taking wholly a grant from the public purse—that there shouldn't be full transparency on that" when will he insist that his officials release basic information on these projects beyond a few vague lines in a press release?Hon SHANE JONES: Obviously the officials are providing me with advice and I'm encouraging them to be proactive. I will remind said official that daylight is close to sunlight.Hon Paul Goldsmith: Is the reason that the information isn't being released that some agreements are nothing more than a few scribbles on the back of an envelope?Hon SHANE JONES: There's a host of proposals that have been provided by the work done by the last regime through regional action plans and some indeed are not scribbled but are tedious long-winded and it takes a great deal of effort for the officials to wade through them all.Hon Paul Goldsmith: Does he think that the Prime Minister's promise to lead the most open and transparent Government applies to him and the Provincial Growth Fund?Hon SHANE JONES: As I've said earlier not only will the growth fund allocations pass muster in terms of the four Ministers who must sign off the significant allocations; hefty allocations need to come to the entirety of the Cabinet and as I said "Auditor-General criticises Government's Primary Growth Partnership"—I promise not to go there—2015."