13699 (2025). Camilla Belich to the Minister for Children

Written Question

Published date: 03 Apr 2025

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Document type:	Written Question
Parliament number:	54
Question number:	13699 (2025)
Question asked:	20 Mar 2025
Member asking:	Camilla Belich
Portfolio:	Minister for Children
Minister replying:	Hon Karen Chhour
Answer received:	30 Mar 2025
Status:	Question Answered
Reply type:	Reply
Document ID:	WQ_13699_2025
Document guid:	42644aa7-7c09-4866-a33e-bd6365a877ee

13699 (2025). Camilla Belich to the Minister for Children: On how many occasions, if any, since 27 November 2023, has the Minister intervened in, overruled, or influenced a decision made by any agency under their responsibility, and what were the circumstances of each instance?

Hon Karen Chhour: The roles and responsibility of a minister are set out in the Cabinet Manual, which is available online. As a Minister, I am responsible for deciding both the direction of and the priorities for the agencies for which I hold portfolio responsibilities, and I may give those agencies lawful directions. As a result, there are many occasions on which I have appropriately had input into the agencies’ actions, but these inputs are not collated or registered in a way that could be included in a single answer.