2. Labour - New Zealand First Coalition—Coalition DocumentsHon PAULA BENNETT (Deputy Leader—National) to the Deputy Prime MinisterLabour - New Zealand First Coalition—Coalition Documents2. Hon PAULA BENNETT (Deputy Leader—National) to the Deputy Prime Minister: Does he stand by all his statements?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Deputy Prime Minister): In their context and totality and with subtlety of meaning yes.Hon Paula Bennett: Does he stand by his statement in relation to the 38- or 33-page secret coalition agreement that—and I quote—Mr SPEAKER: Order! Order! There was unnecessary comment within the question. The member is to keep it absolutely to what the Deputy Prime Minister is responsible for as Deputy Prime Minister and contain no other unnecessary comments.Hon Paula Bennett: I'll start again if that's all right Mr Speaker?Mr SPEAKER: Yes.Hon Paula Bennett: Does he stand by his statement in relation to the 38- or 33-page coalition agreement document that Yes it's going to be released at some point."?Mr SPEAKER: Before the Deputy Prime Minister answers the question I want an assurance that that was a statement made by the Deputy Prime Minister when he was Deputy Prime Minister.Hon Gerry Brownlee: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I'm sure that you will find in the Hansard a reference from the Prime Minister that says the statement was made while Mr Peters was standing next to her. You would assume that when he's standing next to her he stands as her deputy.Mr SPEAKER: Yes and the question that I was checking because obviously one does a little bit of research into this because we're trying to differentiate between the role of the leader of New Zealand First and the role of the Deputy Prime Minister—it's a question of whether that statement was made by the Deputy Prime Minister.Hon Paula Bennett: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. On that then can I get clarification—I would have to check actually the timing of it—that we cannot quote back any quotes from during our campaign period or previously or at any time to a Minister on things that they have said. Is that the kind of ruling that you have made?Mr SPEAKER: Well it's fine if it's in their portfolio of responsibility area and the member can link it but unfortunately the Deputy Prime Minister has no responsibility for that. Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. Perhaps I could help the honourable member. I did say when I was the Deputy Prime Minister that it was 38 pages but of course under a different font it got down to 33.Hon Paula Bennett: Who has abbreviated that 38-page document down to 33 pages?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: A staff member aware of modern technology changed the font. Hon Paula Bennett: Does the staff member work for Ministerial Services?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Can I just say that the member needs to understand what the Official Information Act is about. It's not—Hon Simon Bridges: Point of order. Mr SPEAKER: I think the member can just let the member finish. If he's not satisfied with the answer at that point then he might want to raise a point of order or I might even beat him to it. All right? So we'll let the Deputy Prime Minister finish his answer.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: To continue it is strictly about information that's official. It's not about it being pretty legal; it's got to be either legal or not legal.Mr SPEAKER: I am going to ask the deputy leader of the National Party to ask her question again. The question was a pretty specific one around whether the person was a Ministerial Services employee. That should be answered.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: The answer is no. At the time that person was working for New Zealand First—yet to be in the new coalition Government.Hon Paula Bennett: Can the Deputy Prime Minister explain why he has made comments in recent days that a 38-page document has within the last two weeks been abbreviated to 33 pages?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Because the second part of the member's question is a fact. The first part though relates to the fact that as the Prime Minister pointed out yesterday we released an eight-page comprehensive coalition document on which we are working—Hon Amy Adams: It's not the question she asked.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Well I'll get to it but she asked two questions all right? Amy if you take it slowly you might learn it. My real answer is this: just because we've got an eight-page document does not mean that we're not forward-thinking and visionary and have a dynamic plan for the future on which we're working. Hon Paula Bennett: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. There was no answer to my question in that at all.Mr SPEAKER: No I'm absolutely certain there was.Hon Paula Bennett: Does he believe that this document should be released to the public when he speaks so often about the importance of transparency and openness in Government?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Transparency and openness is the middle name of this Government. [Interruption] No no. If this is what a dynamic Opposition looks like then we've got a long way to wait now. Can I just make it very very clear that we have programmes that we're working on—two items that I outlined yesterday—that make sense to most fair-thinking New Zealanders. One's to do with how we measure unemployment; the other is how we measure growth against people's personal incomes for the per capita for GDP. There's nothing secret about that—we're working on it.Hon Paula Bennett: Has the Deputy Prime Minister given a copy of the coalition agreement document to any of his ministerial colleagues?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: The answer to that question is no because they would have had it before they were even a Minister."