As previewed by your friendly neighbourhood Process Nerd earlier this week, shortly after the curtains rose on the fall sitting, the government — personified, in this instance, by parliamentary secretary to the House leader Kevin Lamoureux — rose to present the official replies to more than 100 written questions filed by MPs before the chamber shut down for the summer.

Since then, opposition researchers and journalists alike have been parsing the fine print of hundreds of pages of documents tabled as part of the sitting-starter data dump, hoping to dredge up previously undisclosed expenses or policy details — ideally, those likely to put the government on the defensive over how it manages taxpayers’ dollars.

While those stories are being pulled together, however, here’s a sampling of some of what we learned from the latest batch of order paper responses.

Note: All data were harvested from government replies to written parliamentary questions as tabled on Monday, Sept. 19, 2018.

Number of work permits issued to irregular-border-crossing asylum-seekers from April 1, 2017 to May 31, 2018: 17,334

Number of permit requests rejected: 615

Number of requests withdrawn: 8

Cost of sending three temporary duty officers to Nigeria on six- to eight-week rotations to deter irregular migration to Canada: $60,000 for airfare, food and accommodation (approximate)

Total reimbursement for “extraordinary costs” related to temporary housing for refugee claimants to Quebec: $36 million

To Ontario: $11 million

To Manitoba: $3 million

Provisions in the proposed new gun laws that would require sharing information with the Canada Revenue Agency: None

Written/emailed correspondence received by the Prime Minister’s Office since November 2015 on the seal hunt: 2,013,389

On climate change: 240,376

On pipelines: 140,859

On terrorism: 86,451

Cost of sending Dean Drever’s fibreglass statue Yellow Bear #3 (2009) to Canada’s mission to the European Union in Brussels: $4,228.83

Cost to send Jaco Ishulutaq’s Dancing Bear (2010) to Canada’s NATO offices in Brussels: $118.99

Amount paid to performers at the Canada Day Parliament Hill show in 2016: $338,910

In 2017: $1,341,413

Amount spent on televisions by Canadian Heritage since February 2017: $132,914.39 (43 units)

By Environment and Climate Change Canada: $17,156 (2 units)

By Finance Canada: $241.80 (2 units)

Total cost of installing a sauna at the official residence on Harrington Lake: $4,178.50

Number of projects funded by the Canada Infrastructure Bank to date: None