What meetings, communications, or correspondence have Ministers or officials had with New Zealand Aluminium Smelter, Rio Tinto, Meridian Energy, Contact Energy, or Mercury NZ regarding the 20‑year contracts since 1 January 2024, if any?

Answer

My Ministerial diary is proactively released on the Beehive website every month. You can access it here: https://www.beehive.govt.nz/minister/hon-simeon-brown. Correspondence I have received or sent is not categorised by topic. Accordingly, the information requested is not available in an easily reportable format. It would not be a good use of taxpayer-funded staff’s time to collate and organise by topic a list of all correspondence. It would not be in the public interest to do so.