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What assessments, reports, briefings, aide-memoires, risk registers, business cases, or other advice, if any, informed decisions in Budget 2026 relating to the impact or potential impact of savings, optimisation, scaling, reprioritisation, fiscal sustainability, or efficiency initiatives in Vote Corrections on staff safety, prisoner safety, offender management, programme delivery, or operational performance?

Answered Question 24586 (2026)
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Tracey McLellan

List MP · Labour Party

Question

  • What assessments, reports, briefings, aide-memoires, risk registers, business cases, or other advice, if any, informed decisions in Budget 2026 relating to the impact or potential impact of savings, optimisation, scaling, reprioritisation, fiscal sustainability, or efficiency initiatives in Vote Corrections on staff safety, prisoner safety, offender management, programme delivery, or operational performance?

Answered by

Hon Mark Mitchell

Member for Whangaparāoa · National Party · Minister of Corrections

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I am advised that this information is not held in a central location and to provide this information would amount to substantial collation and manual analysis, which I am not prepared to ask my officials for the purpose of this response.