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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 24 August 2026, listed by agency, title and date received?

Answered Question 38135 (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 24 August 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 24 August 2026. Tertiary Education Commission 27 August 2026 - Report to the Minister for Tertiary Education dated 27 August 2026 28 August 2026 - Lines on AUT’s contribution to New Zealand Ministry of Education 24 August 2026 - Media Query on Supporting Counselling Students 25 August 2026 - Supporting information for meeting with TEC Board Chair and updated LoE 27 August 2026 - Updated talking points for Cabinet paper – Managing Cost Pressures in Tertiary Education 27 August 2026 - Notes to support a recorded speech for ITENZ conference 27 August 2026 - TEWU 27 August 2026 27 August 2026 - Updated agenda and talking points for August University Strategy Group meeting 27 August 2026 - Tertiary Research Excellence Fund – final policy decisions and funding determination 27 August 2026 - Confirmed fee settings for 2027 27 August 2026 - Finalising the funding determinations for 2027 (phase 1) 28 August 2026 - Supporting information for Wānanga funding review meeting New Zealand Qualifications Authority 28 August 2026 - NZQA tertiary programme entry requirements (Level 7 and above) and related matters Some titles have been withheld as they are sensitive in nature and are not in the public interest to release at this time. 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.