Question Time

Private Email Accounts

The Hon. R.P. WORTLEY (14:26): l seek leave to make a brief explanation before asking the minister assisting the Premier a question regarding conduct of portfolio-related business.

Leave granted.

The Hon. R.P. WORTLEY: On 1 August, the assistant minister advised the chamber that:

Currently, I am using my parliamentary email address because I have not been given a departmental email address yet.

The Hon. Ms Lee also told the chamber on the same day in relation to the allocation of an office and the establishment of an appropriate email address to conduct her ministerial business that:

The Department of the Premier and Cabinet is organising those arrangements for me.

My questions to the assistant minister are:

1. In the past five weeks since parliament last sat, has the assistant minister been given an appropriate email to conduct her ministerial-related business?

2. Has the assistant minister now been allocated an office in which to conduct her portfolio-related business?

3. What steps has the assistant minister taken to ensure that portfolio-related matters are handled by correct ministerial processes?

4. What business does the assistant minister conduct within the parliament that is related to her portfolio responsibilities?

The Hon. J.S. LEE (14:27): I thank the honourable member for his many questions. I actually tabled those answers in my previous answers when I tabled the others without me reading them into Hansard, so can the honourable member refer to those answers.