The National Assembly conducts a question and answer session at the 7th Session.

According to the agenda of the 7th Session, the question and answer session of the 15th National Assembly began on the morning of June 4 and lasted for 2.5 days. The question and answer activities at this session continued to be carried out in accordance with the provisions of the Law on Supervisory Activities of the National Assembly and People's Councils.

The National Assembly conducts questions and answers under the responsibility of 4 ministers and heads of sectors including: Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, Minister of Industry and Trade, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism and State Auditor General.

The heads of these four fields will be responsible for answering questions; also participating in the explanation are the Deputy Prime Ministers in charge of the fields and the Ministers and heads of relevant sectors.

The Government has assigned Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha to, on behalf of the Government, clarify issues related to the Government's operations and directly answer questions from National Assembly deputies at the end of the question-and-answer session.

The National Assembly will vote to pass the Resolution on questioning activities at the end of the session, which is the basis for agencies to implement and also the basis for the National Assembly, the National Assembly Standing Committee, National Assembly agencies, National Assembly delegations, and National Assembly deputies to supervise.

The question-and-answer session continues to be conducted in the "quick question, short answer" format. Accordingly, the person answering the question will have no more than 5 minutes to speak on the issue in the field of questioning before the National Assembly begins the questioning; each session's Chair will invite 3 delegates to ask questions, each National Assembly delegate will ask questions for no more than 1 minute; the debate will not exceed 2 minutes; the answering time will not exceed 3 minutes for each question. Government members and relevant sector heads will participate in explaining under the direction of the Chair of the session to clarify the issues questioned by National Assembly delegates.

Speaking at the opening of the question and answer session, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man believed that with his intelligence, high sense of responsibility, practical work experience, deep expertise and the actual situation in localities and bases, along with the performance of the functions and tasks of National Assembly deputies, the question and answer session will take place in an exciting manner, in a constructive spirit, with high responsibility, with a lot of information reflecting the actual situation, with many proposals, recommendations and suggestions for the Government, Ministers and Heads of sectors in directing and operating, overcoming limitations, difficulties and obstacles in reality; continuing to make the question and answer activity increasingly become an important highlight of the session, meeting the expectations of voters, people nationwide and the requirements of National Assembly deputies.

Opening the question and answer session, the National Assembly questioned the first group of issues in the field of natural resources and environment; focusing on the management, exploitation and protection of national marine resources; the implementation of policies and laws on water security; solutions to prevent and combat drought, saltwater intrusion, water shortage, depletion and pollution; solutions to research, explore, exploit and use mineral resources as construction materials and rare resources and minerals.

Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Dang Quoc Khanh was the main respondent. Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha and the Ministers of Planning and Investment, Finance, Agriculture and Rural Development, Construction, and Transport also participated in answering questions and explaining related issues.