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What cost pressures within their relevant portfolio Votes, if any, was the Minister informed of prior to Budget 2026 - listing any advice received on this by date and title?

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Francisco Hernandez

List MP · Green Party

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  • What cost pressures within their relevant portfolio Votes, if any, was the Minister informed of prior to Budget 2026 - listing any advice received on this by date and title?

Answered by

Hon Penny Simmonds

Member for Invercargill · National Party · Minister for Tertiary Education

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I was informed of cost pressures relating to volume pressures and increasing costs in Vote Tertiary Education prior to Budget 2026. The Treasury and the Ministry of Education will proactively release material from the Budget process in due course.