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Jarion Richrdson, JP, MP

Jarion Richrdson, JP, MP

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17 Jun 2022 House of Assembly
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Will the Honourable Mi nister please provide for this Honourable House a list of the individual Government programmes associated with each goal listed on page 1 of the Youth Employment Strategy?
17 Jun 2022 House of Assembly
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Will the Honourable Mi nister please inform this Honourable Hous e the Programme Name, Business Unit and Head from the Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure for the Year 2022/23 for each of the Government pr ogrammes listed under Question Number 1 above?
17 Jun 2022 House of Assembly
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Will the Honourable Mi nister please inform t his Honourable House which of the Government programmes listed above pr edate the launch of the Youth Employment Strat egy?
17 Jun 2022 House of Assembly
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Yes. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
17 Jun 2022 House of Assembly
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Thank you. I note that the Honourable Minister in his Statement said that the Household Expenditures Survey international best practice was every 10 years. Could the Minister please clarify? If the surv ey is ev ery 10 years, why was one supposed to be conducted in 2019?
17 Jun 2022 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Speaking of the CARTAC consultation, what prompted the Director of the Department of Statistics to reach out to CARTAC in June 2022? Hon. Jason Hayward: This CARTAC regional consu ltation is something that we do for all statistical outputs and not just for the consumer price index. So this is a regular occurrence ensuring that you …
17 Jun 2022 House of Assembly
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New question, please, Mr. Speaker.
17 Jun 2022 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Would the Honourable M inister please explain: In his Statement on pages five and six he has a table labelled “Changes in Weights of Components of the CPI.” Would the Honourable Minister please clarify that these weights are derived from the Household Expenditures Survey of 2013? Hon. Jason Hayward: In the Statement, the weights are derived …
17 Jun 2022 House of Assembly
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Supplemental, please, Mr. Speaker?
17 Jun 2022 House of Assembly
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Thank you. Would the Honourable Minister be able to speak to why food is weighted what it is . . . how they arrived at that weight for food, which looks like about 11 per cent for the household expenditure according to the number? Hon. Jason Hayward: The surveyors monitor the expenditure of households on a month- to-month basis over …
17 Jun 2022 House of Assembly
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Supplemental, please, Mr. Speaker?
17 Jun 2022 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, Honourable Minister. So the current Government position is that based on this household survey from 2013 that food is 10 per cent of household spending in Bermuda. Is that correct? Hon. Jason Hayward: Incorrect. The measure is 11.5 per cent.
17 Jun 2022 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Honourable Mi nister. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. A third question: Given the Minister’s Stat ement on the new Household Expenditure Survey on page 7 wherein the Minister said a revised CPI sho pping basket and expenditure rates will not come avai lable until approximately two years after the data collection, which we’re seeing in the next 12 months, …
17 Jun 2022 House of Assembly
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Yes, please, Mr. Speaker.
17 Jun 2022 House of Assembly
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The current conclusions reached in the Household Expenditure Surve y and the CPI—are those data inputs currently used by the Bermuda House of Assembly Wage Commission in determining their next step, which I believe is the living wage? Hon. Jason Hayward: Mr. Speaker, I don’t know what data inputs the Wage Commission factored into their calculations. If it is not …
17 Jun 2022 House of Assembly
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None, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, Honourable Minister.
17 Jun 2022 House of Assembly
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Yes. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
17 Jun 2022 House of Assembly
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I thank the Honourable . . . I am sorry. Good morning, Honourable Premier. In the Honourable Premier’s Statement at page 2, he stated that at an April meeti ng the Go vernment would look at reducing the duty rates on es-sential commodities recommended that were not a lready at zero per cent. Has the Government reduced those duties that …
17 Jun 2022 House of Assembly
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None. Second question, please, Mr. Speaker.
17 Jun 2022 House of Assembly
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Thank you. The Honourable Premier, again on page 2, although the duty on these items —essential goods — were eliminated in 2018 many persons stated they did not see those reductions passed on to the co nsumers. Would the Honourable Premier be able to . . . sorry, has Government ascertained why those reductions were not passed on, or has …