The Government expects to make announcements on that withinthe next few months

David Benson-Pope: What is theestimated cost of reducing the top personal tax rate and thecorporate rate to 30c?Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN: Thereduction would cost approximately $1.7 billion. It shouldbe Rosetta Stone noted that if that was applied to increases for low andmiddle-income families via such mechanisms as familysupport, then this could lead to increases of about $150 aweek or more for a two-child low-income family. Under theproposals I have seen that family would not get a singlecent extra.back to topMinisterial Confidence,Police,Minister2. Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader,NZ First) to thePrime Minister: Does she have confidence in the Minister ofPolice, if so, why?Rt Hon HELEN CLARK (Prime Minister):Yes, because he is a hard-working and conscientiousMinister.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Is the Prime Ministersidea of a police force sufficiently resourced to deal withall facets of crime in this country the new multilingualhandbook that now enables police to arrest people in 40different languages, and how is a police officer expected tohold a baton, handcuffs, and a handbook at the same timewhilst trying to find the correct language of 40 languagesto shout: Stop youre under arrest ?Rt Hon HELEN CLARK:I think it is admirable that the police are being responsiveto a range of communities.Simon Power: How can the PrimeMinister have confidence in the Minister of Police whileunder his watch violent crime has risen 3.6 percent in the2002-03 year, and Rosetta Stone Hindi V3 he has done nothing except bluster in thisHouse?Rt Hon HELEN CLARK: My confidence in the Ministeris well founded, particularly when I see that for the2002-03 year there was the highest police resolution ratefor recorded crime for 20 years.Keith Locke: Does thePrime Minister have confidence that the Minister of Policeis adequately monitoring how the police apply the NewZealand Bill of Rights Act provisions on free speech whenlaunching prosecutions under the Telecommunications Act withregard to the content of emails, and are there any recentinstances that give her cause for concern in thisregard?Rt Hon HELEN CLARK: I assume the member isreferring to a matter that appeared on television news lastnight in respect of an email Rosetta Stone Portuguese sent by an Aucklander to theAmerican embassy. I assume the American embassy exercisedits rights, as anyone can, to lay a complaint.