Peters Winston: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to MinistersText is incorporated into the Bound VolumePeters Winston: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers[Sitting date: 31 July 2013. Volume:692;Page:12104. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]2.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First)to thePrime Minister: Does he have confidence in the Minister of Immigration?Rt Hon JOHN KEY (Prime Minister):Yes.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Does he have confidence in the Minister of Immigration when he said on 28 March 2013 that “parent numbers from China have halved.”?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: Yes in the context that he made it.Rt Hon Winston Peters: How can he have confidence in that statement when in fact all that the Minister of Immigration has done is stockpile over 5500 parent applications from China in an effort to conceal real parent reunion numbers from China?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: Well I would reject the proposition that the Minister is trying to conceal anything.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Why would the Prime Minister reject the statement about the Minister attempting to conceal the true numbers of applications when in fact from Statistics New Zealand and Immigration New Zealand there is all the evidence that there is a stockpile now of 5500 enabling the Minister to say that the application numbers are halved? How can he in other words express confidence in a Minister overseeing a department that engages in such duplicitous behaviour?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: Well I would have to see all of the data and the specifics the member is referring to. If he wants a specific question answered he really should put it down for the Minister directly himself.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Why does the Prime Minister not like answering for a Minister when he has full confidence that he is telling Parliament the truth? In fact when the Minister looks at this chart I am holding showing the Chinese outstanding stockpiled numbers he will know—Hon Member: A bit hard to see Winston.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Beg your pardon?Mr SPEAKER: Order!Rt Hon Winston Peters: He will know that the figures being given are not correct and when did he learn about that if not just 5 minutes ago?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: The member if he has a specific beef with the particular numbers that a Minister has produced relative to other data is really better to either put that down in the primary question in which case I can answer that for him or give it to the Minister in question who will have that there.Rt Hon Winston Peters: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I asked the Prime Minister whether he had confidence in his Minister of Immigration. He said he did and now he is not wanting to answer the questions on this issue. I assume that his confidence was based on some fact rather than just to make it up as you go along.Mr SPEAKER: Order! As a way forward I would like the member to re-ask his last supplementary question.Rt Hon Winston Peters: When did he as Prime Minister learn that the Minister of Immigration was overseeing a department deliberately stockpiling parent category numbers from China as these charts show and—Hon Steven Joyce: Another one of your accusations without any facts.Rt Hon Winston Peters: —“Big Ears”—is the answer “5 minutes ago”?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: The member is making a claim that I cannot be sure is accurate and on that basis I am not prepared to answer it.Rt Hon Winston Peters: I seek leave to table from the Parliamentary Library the June 2011 figures by nationality the June 2012 figures by nationality the June 2013 figures by nationality and then the pending application chart also prepared by the Parliamentary Library.Mr SPEAKER: Leave is sought to table those particular charts produced by the Parliamentary Library. Is there any objection to that course of action? There appears to be none. They can be tabled.Documents by leave laid on the Table of the House.