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What is the average amount of time taken from when Fire and Emergency New Zealand requests air ambulance chopper assistance and when they receive a response, if any? Please break down the average by month since March 2025. and 1 other question

Answered 8362, 8363 (2026)
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Mike Davidson

List MP · Green Party

Questions

  • 8362

    What is the average amount of time taken from when Fire and Emergency New Zealand requests air ambulance chopper assistance and when they receive a response, if any? Please break down the average by month since March 2025.

  • 8363

    How many air ambulance choppers has Fire and Emergency New Zealand requested to assist in search-and-rescue incidents since March 2025, if any?

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Hon Brooke van Velden

Member for Tāmaki · ACT Party · Minister of Internal Affairs

Answer

I am advised the information requested is not held in a way that enables it to be readily extracted. Providing this information would require extensive manual collation across a large number of individual records. In accordance with Speaker’s Ruling 210/6, I consider that the time and resource required to undertake this exercise would be an unreasonable diversion of Fire and Emergency New Zealand’s resources, and therefore it is not in the public interest to provide this information. This is also my answer to WPQ 8363 (2026).