| Minister/Title | No. of questions
   addressed to each Minister/Title (%)* |   | No. of questions answered (%)** |   | Average no. of days taken to answer   | 
 
 
  | Agriculture, Fisheries and
  Forestry | 61 + 1# | (2.02%) |  | 59 | (98.33%) |  | 32 | 
 
  | Arts | 15 | (0.5%) |  | 15 | (100%) |  | 100 | 
 
  | Assistant Treasurer | 9 | (0.3%) |  | 8 | (88.9%) |  | 53 | 
 
  | Attorney-General | 62 | (2.05%) |  | 62 | (100%) |  | 67 | 
 
  | Broadband, Communications
  and the Digital Economy | 144 | (4.76%) |  | 136 | (94.44%) |  | 78 | 
 
  | Cabinet Secretary | 1 | (0.03%) |  | 0 | (0%) |  | 0 | 
 
  | Climate Change and Energy Efficiency | 59 | (1.95%) |  | 58 | (98.31%) |  | 72 | 
 
  | Climate Change, Industry
  and Innovation | 4 | (0.13%) |  | 2 | (50%) |  | 56 | 
 
  | Community Services | 9 | (0.3%) |  | 9 | (100%) |  | 90 | 
 
  | Defence | 599 | (19.79%) |  | 599 | (100%) |  | 71 | 
 
  | Defence Materiel | 172 | (5.68%) |  | 172 | (100%) |  | 63 | 
 
  | Defence Science and
  Personnel | 28 | (0.93%) |  | 28 | (100%) |  | 68 | 
 
  | Disability Reform | 10 | (0.33%) |  | 9 | (90%) |  | 95 | 
 
  | Emergency Management | 9 | (0.3%) |  | 9 | (100%) |  | 84 | 
 
  | Employment and Workplace
  Relations | 121 | (4%) |  | 120 | (99.17%) |  | 55 | 
 
  | Employment Participation | 2 | (0.07%) |  | 2 | (100%) |  | 54 | 
 
  | Employment Participation
  and Childcare | 8 | (0.26%) |  | 8 | (100%) |  | 80 | 
 
  | Families, Community
  Services and Indigenous Affairs | 20 | (0.66%) |  | 20 | (100%) |  | 75 | 
 
  | Families, Housing,
  Community Services and Indigenous Affairs | 32 + 1# | (1.06%) |  | 31 | (100%) |  | 69 | 
 
  | Finance and Deregulation | 103 | (3.4%) |  | 102 | (99.03%) |  | 61 | 
 
  | Financial Services and
  Superannuation | 34 | (1.12%) |  | 28 | (82.35%) |  | 172 | 
 
  | Foreign Affairs | 149 + 3† | (4.92%) |  | 145 | (97.32%) |  | 129 | 
 
  | Health | 55 | (1.82%) |  | 51 | (92.73%) |  | 54 | 
 
  | Health and Ageing | 31 | (1.02%) |  | 31 | (100%) |  | 63 | 
 
  | Higher Education and Skills | 1 | (0.03%) |  | 1 | (100%) |  | 34 | 
 
  | Home Affairs | 37 | (1.22%) |  | 35 | (94.59%) |  | 64 | 
 
  | Homelessness | 6 | (0.2%) |  | 6 | (100%) |  | 73 | 
 
  | Housing | 7 | (0.23%) |  | 7 | (100%) |  | 69 | 
 
  | 
 *    Percentages are of the total number of
  questions placed on notice.**  Percentages are of the number of questions
  addressed to each minister.
 #    Includes 1 question asked and subsequently
    withdrawn.
 †    Includes 3 questions asked by Senator Bob Brown
    which lapsed from the Notice Paper.
 
 | 
 
  | Housing and Homelessness | 4 | (0.13%) |  | 4 | (100%) |  | 152 | 
 
  | Human Services | 43 | (1.42%) |  | 43 | (100%) |  | 36 | 
 
  | Immigration and Citizenship |       118   | (3.9%) |  | 117 | (99.15%) |  | 70 | 
 
  | Indigenous Employment and
  Economic Development | 2 | (0.07%) |  | 2 | (100%) |  | 85 | 
 
  | Indigenous Health | 4 | (0.13%) |  | 4 | (100%) |  | 40 | 
 
  | Industry and Innovation | 9 | (0.3%) |  | 9 | (100%) |  | 95 | 
 
  | Infrastructure and
  Transport | 1 | (1.35%) |  | 41 | (100%) |  | 83 | 
 
  | Innovation, Industry,
  Science and Research | 31 | (1.02%) |  | 31 | (100%) |  | 41 | 
 
  | Justice | 16 | (0.53%) |  | 16 | (100%) |  | 69 | 
 
  | Mental Health and Ageing | 5 | (0.17%) |  | 5 | (100%) |  | 33 | 
 
  | Minister Assisting on
  Queensland Floods Recovery | 1 | (0.03%) |  | 1 | (100%) |  | 30 | 
 
  | Multicultural Affairs | 1 | (0.03%) |  | 1 | (100%) |  | 30 | 
 
  | President of the Senate | 2 | (0.07%) |  | 2 | (100%) |  | 25 | 
 
  | Prime Minister | 68 | (2.25%) |  | 68 | (100%) |  | 37 | 
 
  | Privacy and Freedom of
  Information | 3 | (0.1%) |  | 3 | (100%) |  | 42 | 
 
  | Public Service and
  Integrity | 8 | (0.26%) |  | 8 | (100%) |  | 47 | 
 
  | Regional Australia,
  Regional Development and Local Government | 31 | (1.02%) |  | 30 | (100%) |  | 56 | 
 
  | Regional Development and
  Local Government | 3 | (0.1%) |  | 2 | (66.67%) |  | 69 | 
 
  | Regional Services, Local
  Communities and Territories | 1 | (0.03%) |  | 1 | (100%) |  | 21 | 
 
  | Resources and Energy | 45 + 1† | (1.49%) |  | 44 | (97.78%) |  | 37 | 
 
  | Road Safety | 1 | (0.03%) |  | 1 | (100%) |  | 21 | 
 
  | School Education, Early
  Childhood and Youth | 62 | (2.05%) |  | 61 | (98.39%) |  | 90 | 
 
  | Science and Research | 2 | (0.07%) |  | 2 | (100%) |  | 55 | 
 
  | Small Business | 13 | (0.43%) |  | 13 | (100%) |  | 81 | 
 
  | Social Housing and
  Homelessness | 7 | (0.23%) |  | 7 | (100%) |  | 109 | 
 
  | Social Inclusion | 14 | (0.46%) |  | 14 | (100%) |  | 58 | 
 
  | Special Minister of State | 80 | (2.64%) |  | 79 | (98.75%) |  | 44 | 
 
  | Special Minister of State
  for the Public Service and Integrity | 9 | (0.3%) |  | 9 | (100%) |  | 51 | 
 
  | Sport | 16 | (0.53%) |  | 15 | (93.75%) |  | 75 | 
 
  | Status of Women | 20 | (0.66%) |  | 20 | (100%) |  | 84 | 
 
  | 
 *    Percentages are of the total number of
  questions placed on notice.**  Percentages are of the number of questions
  addressed to each minister.
 †    Includes 1 question asked by Senator Bob Brown
    which lapsed from the Notice Paper.
 
 | 
 
  | Sustainability, Environment,
  Water, Population and Communities | 174 | (5.75%) |  | 170 | (97.7%) |  | 60 | 
 
  | Tertiary Education, Skills,
  Jobs and Workplace Relations | 67   | (2.21%) |  | 67 | (100%) |  | 66 | 
 
  | Tertiary Education, Skills,
  Science and Research | 24 + 1# | (0.79%) |  | 23 | (100%) |  | 72 | 
 
  | Tourism | 16 | (0.53%) |  | 16 | (100%) |  | 45 | 
 
  | Trade | 25 | (0.83%) |  | 25 | (100%) |  | 113 | 
 
  | Trade and Competitiveness | 11 | (0.36%) |  | 11 | (100%) |  | 89 | 
 
  | Treasurer | 236 | (7.8%) |  | 206 | (87.29%) |  | 76 | 
 
  | Veterans’ Affairs | 26 | (0.86%) |  | 26 | (100%) |  | 81 | 
*    Percentages are of the total number of questions
placed on notice.
**  Percentages are of the number of questions
addressed to each minister.
#    Includes 1 question asked and subsequently
  withdrawn.