2. Government Policy—StatementsHon PAULA BENNETT (Deputy Leader—National) to the Prime MinisterGovernment Policy—StatementsHon PAULA BENNETT (Deputy Leader—National): My question is to the Prime Minister: does she stand by all her Government's—[Interruption] SPEAKER: Order! Order! Sorry I am going to ask the member to repeat it. I won't take supplementaries off people because it would have been both sides. Paula Bennett.2. Hon PAULA BENNETT (Deputy Leader—National) to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by all of her Government's policies?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Deputy Prime Minister) on behalf of the Prime Minister: Most definitely yes.Hon Paula Bennett: Which one of these two statements by her Minister of Finance articulates current Government policy future generations of New Zealanders are again being saddled by a National Government with huge levels of debt" or "When you look at the fundamentals of global economic growth and indeed of the New Zealand economy I'm reasonably reassured … Essentially the low level of public debt is a really important part of it"?SPEAKER: Before the Prime Minister answers can I just seek an assurance from the member that both were made by the Minister of Finance and not by someone before they were a Minister?Hon Paula Bennett: Oh I'm fairly sure that they were by the Minister of Finance. Sorry I'd have to go back and double-check my—SPEAKER: I think we've run into trouble with one of those quotes in the past.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: I can answer it.SPEAKER: So what we have is me giving leave to have it but I think I will ask members to check pretty carefully before they suggest that quotes are made by Ministers when I think I might have been present when that comment was made and I wouldn't have been if it was by a Minister.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: The answer is both statements because the first one relates to and is best evidenced by Mr English on Morning Report two mornings ago saying that he had left in effect this Government with no money at all. It's in his transcript. And in the second one there's—Hon Paula Bennett: But you can make those statements—that's fine.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Well I'll table the transcript if you like. Right I'll bring it down in the next hour. But if you want to get like this here why not enter the contest and show that you are serious about politics? The second matter I want to say very clearly it's our Government debt target set for 2022.Hon Paula Bennett: Which of the following policy positions is current Government policy: her Minister of Education's comments that all current partnership schools will be terminated by mutual agreement or by forced termination or the reported comments by her Associate Minister of Education on Radio New Zealand that the Māori partnership schools will be allowed to remain open?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: The answer's really rather crudely put in question No. 11 today which says "the existing partnership schools will continue so long as they have registered teachers teach the New Zealand curriculum and have the same level of funding as State schools". Now it is possible that a school that was on one day under a certain designation is the next day under a different designation. It is quite possible that school's still open.Hon Paula Bennett: Which one of the following policy positions by her Minister of Police is current Government policy: all 1800 new police will be sworn; some of the 1800 new police will be sworn; some of the 1800 new police will be from the former Government's 880 new police; or we're not really going to have 1800 but are striving towards 1800?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Some of those statements are correct and the others have been made up no doubt by the member. The last one is a make-up—SPEAKER: Order! No the member will withdraw that. It is improper to suggest that members make things up and say them in the House.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Dear me. I withdraw and apologise. Things have got supersensitive around here Mr Speaker. [Interruption] SPEAKER: Order! I ask both members to behave themselves.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Yes never mind. Things must be tough in the National Party when she's offering me something. Can I just say that those statements disguise the serious intention of this Government to find the requisite number of police to ensure there is law and order on our streets in our hamlets and around our country. Most particularly the figure that we inherited 800 was way way short of what's required.Hon Paula Bennett: So which one of the following policy positions is current Government policy: we are going to plant 1 billion trees over the next 10 years or 500 million or 250 million—or would you like to catch up with Shane Jones now and should we just go for 100?SPEAKER: Order! Before the member answers—Hon Paula Bennett: Oh come on! He's had digs all the way through.SPEAKER: I'm trying to keep some order in here and the member has been around quite a long time and she knows she does not ask me questions as she did. Mr Peters take the question it is to you.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Thank you Mr Speaker. I don't mind these attacks but the reality is that the New Zealand diaspora is going to grow 1 billion trees over the next 10 years and that is so critical for the development of our regions the change in our approach with respect to climate change and our responsibilities but above all to give the neglected provinces real hope into the future.Hon Paula Bennett: Which one of these positions articulates current Government policy: the comment by the Deputy Prime Minister that every child who is caught by the police should be arrested charged and convicted or the comment by her Minister of Police that pre-charge warnings are part of the hard work the police do with our communities to ensure that youth are given opportunities away from crime?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: The answers—in order—yes and the second one is no because she didn't say that.Hon Paula Bennett: Which one of these positions articulates current Government policy: the closure of partnership schools will cost the taxpayers nothing or the comment by the Secretary for Education that the closure of partnership schools will cost the taxpayers up to $15 million? Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: If one is dealing in hypotheticals and if they were all—as the Opposition claims—going to close then the second statement might have a remote proximity but I think it's grammatically wrong. But the reality is they won't be closing because in consultation with my colleagues and the education Minister there will be a continuance but under a different framework that we believe in and not an unbridled capitalistic answer that costs the taxpayer so much money."