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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Members, just to give some guidance, we are in the process of trying to improve the Question Time. The respective Chairs of committees are encouraged to ensure that when a Cabinet Secretary appears and reads out an answer to a question that has been asked in the normal way, the first shot for a supplementary question should be granted to the questioner; the Member who filed the question. As you remember, the Cabinet Secretary will be giving a written answer which is expected to first have been given to the Member who filed the question. It, therefore, means that that Member has already prepared, either notes or in their minds, the kind of supplementary questions he or she would want to follow up. After that, the general membership is at liberty to also ask the Cabinet Secretary questions. The moderation must be such that we stick to the timelines that we have been given so that we do not overshoot. Following the tradition established during Question Time in previous parliaments, the last question on a question that has been filed should again be given to the questioner. At all times, try to make the question and the supplementary questions appear national. Do not make it a village matter. Merely because the Member that filed the question is from Starehe Constituency should not make it a Nairobi affair. Other Members from other parts of the country might have legitimate and valid questions that they may wish to ask the Cabinet Secretary. That is the guidance that I wanted to give. However, in due course, we will be trying to make some suggestions on improvement of that period. The House must at all times be seen to reflect the wishes of various Members from all corners of the country. Hon. Gikaria, the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Energy, you had put in some request."
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