Education Minister Hekia Parata's backdown on increasing class sizes has meant new measures for teacher training and qualifications are on hold. How much was intended to go toward efforts to improve teacher quality?

Prime Minister John Key was in London for the Queen's Silver Jubilee. What did he take as a gift for the Queen?

What topic did the Queen raise with Mr Key after receiving a flood of correspondence about it?

Which former minister other than Sir Michael Cullen was awarded an honour in the Queen's Birthday Honours?

Mr Key had lunch with British Prime Minister David Cameron at No.10 Downing St this week. Which other leader attended that lunch?

Parliament's finance and expenditure committee wound up its consideration of the Government's asset sale Mixed Ownership Model Bill this week. Who is the chair of that committee?

There was a fire at which institution of politics this week?

Pokie machine trusts are battling against a members bill that would strip them of their control over $700m in pub and club gaming profits each year. Who drafted the bill?

Which organisation completed its investigation into the Bronwyn Pullar/ACC leak this week?

The return of Auckland's volcanic cones to a group of iwi is expected to open the way for trees to be planted on the summit of One Tree Hill. Who took a chainsaw to the pine on One Tree Hill in protest in 1994?