Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Mackellar, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Seniors) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I refer to page 551 of the Practice where, under the heading ‘Answers to questions without notice’, it says:

When a Minister is occasionally unable to provide an immediate substantive answer, he or she may either undertake to supply the Member with the requested information in writing at a later date …

As the minister is unable to provide the answer, perhaps he could follow that.

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