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What aides-mémoire, briefings, memos, notes, reports, or any other advice, if any, has the Minister or their Office received during the week beginning 6 April 2026, listed by agency, title and date received?

Answered Question 13502 (2026)
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Shanan Halbert

List MP · Labour Party

Question

  • What aides-mémoire, briefings, memos, notes, reports, or any other advice, if any, has the Minister or their Office received during the week beginning 6 April 2026, listed by agency, title and date received?

Answered by

Hon Penny Simmonds

Member for Invercargill · National Party · Minister for Tertiary Education

Answer

I refer the Member to the list below of the advice, reports, briefings, aide memoires, or any other documents, my office or I received during the week beginning 6 April 2026: Tertiary Education Commission 8 April - Report to the Ministers for Vocational Education, and Universities dated 8 April 2026 9 April - Overview of university sector - current work and priorities Ministry of Education 7 April - Further amendments to draft Cabinet paper - Tertiary Research Excellence Fund 8 April - Crown Entity Monitoring – Tertiary Education Commission: State of Play to March 2026 8 April - Universities Portfolio Priorities 8 April - Tertiary Education Weekly Update 8 April 2026 10 April - Advice to date on the Tertiary Research Excellence Fund NZQA 10 April - NZQA advice on quality assurance of UCOL and Otago Polytechnic This answer does not cover members of my office who receive a large amount of material every week. Asking them to collate that material would require substantial collation and research and prevent them from undertaking their substantive roles. Please note some titles have been withheld as they are either sensitive in nature or still under active consideration. It is not in the public interest to release them at this time.