8. Question No. 8—TransportCHRIS BISHOP (National—Hutt South) to the Associate Minister of TransportQuestion No. 8—Transport8. CHRIS BISHOP (National—Hutt South) to the Associate Minister of Transport: Does she stand by all her statements and actions?Hon PHIL TWYFORD (Minister of Transport) on behalf of the Associate Minister of Transport: On behalf of the Minister yes in the context they were made and taken and I particularly stand by our record investment in walking and cycling: $390 million in the last three years. That's $96 million more than the previous Government spent. We've already built 194 kilometres of walking and cycling paths and there's a lot more to come. And our record investment in safety—an example of that is $1.4 billion upgrading 3300 kilometres of the country's highest-risk roads that is expected to prevent 160 deaths and serious injuries each year.Chris Bishop: Has she asked the New Zealand Transport Agency why the draft board minutes for 23 August 2019 say that management has raised with Ministers the desire to not apply the feebate" for electric cars to one- and two-star safety-rated cars when she said last week that didn't happen?Hon PHIL TWYFORD: On behalf of the Minister as I said in the House last week I disagree with the characterisation in those draft board minutes and I raised those concerns with the Ministry of Transport. I've asked the Ministry of Transport to work through those points with the transport agency.Chris Bishop: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. The question was a very direct one about whether or not she's asked the New Zealand Transport Agency why the draft board minutes say that and I don't think that was addressed at all in the answer.SPEAKER: I'm going to ask the Minister to answer it again. I think on behalf of the Minister he came quite close in that he said that he asked the ministry to work it through I think with the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA). But I think the question was about direct contact and therefore if the Minister who is acting for the Minister at the moment has the fact he should give it and if he doesn't have that fact he should indicate that he doesn't. He doesn't. Chris Bishop: Why did she say the Opposition was desperately scaremongering over criticism of the Government's proposal to subsidise one- and two-star safety-rated cars when the Transport Agency reportedly warned her of their concern over that exact same thing?Hon PHIL TWYFORD: On behalf of the Minister because they clearly are.Hon Simon Bridges: In answering that supplementary did he just repeat what Grant Robertson told him to say word for word? SPEAKER: Order!Hon Paul Goldsmith: You're the puppet master. SPEAKER: Order! I am certainly no such thing. The member will stand withdraw and apologise. Hon Paul Goldsmith: I withdraw and apologise. Chris Bishop: Why does her ministerial diary for July 2019 say that her meeting on 25 July 2019 with Patrick Reynolds and Minister Twyford finished at 7.30 p.m. when a recent written question to me says it finished at 8 p.m.? Hon PHIL TWYFORD: On behalf of the Minister because that's what the diary says. Chris Bishop: Did she discuss the composition of or possible appointments to the New Zealand Transport Agency board at her 25 July meeting with Patrick Reynolds and Minister Phil Twyford? Hon PHIL TWYFORD: On behalf of the Minister no."