5. Limited Service Volunteer Programme—Funding for PlacesDARROCH BALL (NZ First) to the Minister for Social DevelopmentLimited Service Volunteer Programme—Funding for Places5. DARROCH BALL (NZ First) to the Minister for Social Development: Does she stand by all her statements?Mr SPEAKER: Is the Minister going to answer this? Hon ANNE TOLLEY (Minister for Social Development): My apologies. Yes in the context in which they were made.Darroch Ball: Does she stand by her statement—[Interruption]Mr SPEAKER: Order! Sorry to interrupt; I just want to be able to hear the question.Darroch Ball: Does she stand by her statement There are no specific plans to increase the number of participants on the Limited Service Volunteer programme."; if so why?Hon ANNE TOLLEY: Yes I do stand by that statement. We have 800 places funded and as I have said before to the member we do need to make sure that the right young people go into that course who are going to benefit from that course and that is how we intend to continue it.Darroch Ball: How can she say that there are no plans to increase the number of participants when the Minister of Defence has stated to me in answer to a written question that he will be assisting the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) to "increase the number of programme participants"?Hon ANNE TOLLEY: Well I have funding for 800 places. We want to make sure that the young people who go on to that course are going to take full advantage of that course but if the Minister of Defence—I have no responsibility for Defence funding. If it is going to fund more places we would work with it to do that.Darroch Ball: How is it possible that two senior Ministers who sit across from each other in Cabinet cannot get together and have a coherent plan that both of them are aware of?Hon ANNE TOLLEY: As I say MSD funds this programme for 800 places and works with Defence to provide that opportunity. We think that 800 is currently the right number of young people who are able to take advantage of that course and do well out of it. So that is where we are funded currently by the Minister of Finance.Hon Gerry Brownlee: Can she confirm that she and the Minister of Defence are lock step in this issue and totally determined to continue offering this opportunity to young people who might otherwise have less advantage in their life; what is more—[Interruption]Mr SPEAKER: Order! [Interruption] Order! [Interruption] No Mr Brownlee—[Interruption] Mr Brownlee your microphone was off from the moment I stood up. The first part of the question is in order. There is only one leg to a supplementary question.Hon ANNE TOLLEY: Absolutely yes.Darroch Ball: I seek leave to table the two answers to written questions that show they are demonstrably not in lock step with this programme.Mr SPEAKER: Just to confirm—are they very recent answers and therefore not published in the last 3 days?Darroch Ball: One of them is.Mr SPEAKER: I am certainly not prepared to put leave for the tabling of written questions. They are available to all members. If the member wants to make a case for one under special circumstances where he has received the answer and they have not yet been published I may consider it.Darroch Ball: I seek leave to table the answer to a written question that was received from the Hon Anne Tolley.Mr SPEAKER: When?Darroch Ball: The second of the 11th.Mr SPEAKER: On 2 November? On that basis I will put the leave. Leave is sought to table that particular answer which has not yet been published. Is there any objection? There is none. It can be published.Document by leave laid on the Table of the House.Hon Gerry Brownlee: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I seek leave to table a remedial comprehension course that may be of use to that member—Mr SPEAKER: No. Order! [Interruption] Order! It goes to the point that the point of order from Mr Brownlee was not helpful to the order of the House and I am certainly not prepared to put the leave."