Written questions

Asked by

Teanau Tuiono

List MP · Green Party

• What events or meetings, if any, did the Minister decline to attend during the week beginning 13 July 2026, including location, event description, and attendees?

Asked by

Teanau Tuiono

List MP · Green Party

• What events or meetings, if any, did the Minister decline to attend during the week beginning 13 July 2026, including location, event description, and attendees?

Asked by

Teanau Tuiono

List MP · Green Party

• What events or meetings, if any, did the Minister decline to attend during the week beginning 13 July 2026, including location, event description, and attendees?

Asked by

Teanau Tuiono

List MP · Green Party

• What events or meetings, if any, did the Minister decline to attend during the week beginning 13 July 2026, including location, event description, and attendees?

Asked by

Teanau Tuiono

List MP · Green Party

• What events or meetings, if any, did the Minister decline to attend during the week beginning 13 July 2026, including location, event description, and attendees?

Asked by

Teanau Tuiono

List MP · Green Party

• What events or meetings, if any, did the Minister decline to attend during the week beginning 13 July 2026, including location, event description, and attendees?

Asked by

Rachel Brooking

Member for Dunedin · Labour Party

• Has he raised the timeliness of novel food assessments with the Food Ministers' Meeting or with his Australian counterpart in the last 12 months; if so, on what dates, and what was the outcome?

Asked by

Rachel Brooking

Member for Dunedin · Labour Party

• How many, if any, novel food applications lodged with Food Standards Australia New Zealand in the last three years were made by New Zealand-based applicants, and what proportion of those were approved?

Asked by

Teanau Tuiono

List MP · Green Party

• What events or meetings, if any, did the Minister decline to attend during the week beginning 13 July 2026, including location, event description, and attendees?

Asked by

Rachel Brooking

Member for Dunedin · Labour Party

• How many, if any, applications to amend Standard 1.5.1 (Novel Foods) of the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code have been lodged with Food Standards Australia New Zealand in the last three years, and of those, how many have been…

Asked by

Chris Hipkins

Member for Remutaka · Labour Party

• How much, if anything, has been charged to Ministerial Services financial code 82114 International Other Travel Expenses for Hon Shane Jones’s trip to Reno, Nevada in October 2025?

Asked by

Chris Hipkins

Member for Remutaka · Labour Party

• How much, if anything, has been charged to Ministerial Services financial code 82113 International Other Transport for Hon Shane Jones’s trip to Reno, Nevada in October 2025?

Asked by

Chris Hipkins

Member for Remutaka · Labour Party

• How much, if anything, has been charged to Ministerial Services financial code 82112 International Accommodation for Hon Shane Jones’s trip to Reno, Nevada in October 2025?

Asked by

Chris Hipkins

Member for Remutaka · Labour Party

• How much, if anything, has been charged to Ministerial Services financial code 82111 International Air Travel for Hon Shane Jones’s trip to Reno, Nevada in October 2025?

Asked by

Teanau Tuiono

List MP · Green Party

• What events or meetings, if any, did the Minister decline to attend during the week beginning 13 July 2026, including location, event description, and attendees?

Asked by

Chris Hipkins

Member for Remutaka · Labour Party

• How much, if anything, has been charged to Ministerial Services financial code 82114 International Other Travel Expenses for Hon Nicola Willis’s trip to Washington DC in April 2026?

Asked by

Chris Hipkins

Member for Remutaka · Labour Party

• How much, if anything, has been charged to Ministerial Services financial code 82113 International Other Transport for Hon Nicola Willis’s trip to Washington DC in April 2026?

Asked by

Chris Hipkins

Member for Remutaka · Labour Party

• How much, if anything, has been charged to Ministerial Services financial code 82112 International Accommodation for Hon Nicola Willis’s trip to Washington DC in April 2026?

Asked by

Chris Hipkins

Member for Remutaka · Labour Party

• How much, if anything, has been charged to Ministerial Services financial code 82111 International Air Travel for Hon Nicola Willis’s trip to Washington DC in April 2026?

Asked by

Chris Hipkins

Member for Remutaka · Labour Party

• 32957

  Has he, his staff or his officials communicated with Minister Jones, his staff or his officials about any Official Information Act requests for information about Minister Jones and his officials’ overseas travel to Toronto, Canada in 2025…

• 32958

  Has he, his staff or his officials communicated with Minister Jones, his staff or his officials about any Official Information Act requests for information about Minister Jones and his officials’ overseas travel to Toronto, Canada in 2025…

Asked by

Chris Hipkins

Member for Remutaka · Labour Party

• 32959

  Has he, his staff or his officials communicated with Minister Jones, his staff or his officials about any Official Information Act requests for information about Minister Jones and his officials’ overseas travel to Reno, Nevada in 2025 and…

• 32960

  Has he, his staff or his officials communicated with Minister Jones, his staff or his officials about any Official Information Act requests for information about Minister Jones and his officials’ overseas travel to Reno, Nevada in 2025 and…

Asked by

Chris Hipkins

Member for Remutaka · Labour Party

• Did Cabinet approve a budget for Hon Nicola Willis’s trip to Washington DC in April 2026 and if so, how was the total amount approved broken down for Cabinet consideration?

Asked by

Lan Pham

List MP · Green Party

• Was the decision to include 'Option 3: Remove Te Mana o te Wai provisions' in the consultation on freshwater national direction (undertaken in 2025) based on the view of a Minister or the views/advice of officials?

Asked by

Lan Pham

List MP · Green Party

• What advice, if any, did the Minister receive on the inclusion of 'Option 3: Remove Te Mana o te Wai provisions' in the consultation on freshwater national direction undertaken in 2025?

Asked by

Lan Pham

List MP · Green Party

• Where did the suggestion to add the consultation option, "Option 3: Remove Te Mana o te Wai provisions", come from in the 'Freshwater national direction' consultation that ran from 29 May 2025 to 27 July 2025, given it was not suggested by…

Asked by

Duncan Webb

Member for Christchurch Central · Labour Party

• Has the Minister's office been in contact with any individual from or representing Tesla Inc?

Asked by

Duncan Webb

Member for Christchurch Central · Labour Party

• Have the Minister's officials been in contact with any individual from or representing Tesla Inc?

Asked by

Duncan Webb

Member for Christchurch Central · Labour Party

• Has the Minister been in contact with any individual from or representing Tesla Inc?

Asked by

Duncan Webb

Member for Christchurch Central · Labour Party

• Has the Minister's office been in contact with any individual from or representing Wayve technologies?

Asked by

Duncan Webb

Member for Christchurch Central · Labour Party

• Has the Minister been in contact with any individual from or representing Wayve technologies?

Asked by

Duncan Webb

Member for Christchurch Central · Labour Party

• Have the Minister's officials been in contact with any individual from or representing Wayve technologies?

Asked by

Duncan Webb

Member for Christchurch Central · Labour Party

• Have the Minister's officials been in contact with any individual from or representing Waymo autonomous cars?

Asked by

Duncan Webb

Member for Christchurch Central · Labour Party

• Has the Minister's office been in contact with any individual from or representing Waymo autonomous cars?

Asked by

Duncan Webb

Member for Christchurch Central · Labour Party

• Has the Minister been in contact with any individual from or representing Waymo autonomous cars?

Asked by

Duncan Webb

Member for Christchurch Central · Labour Party

• What aides-mémoire, briefings, memos, notes, reports, or any other advice, if any, has the Minister or their Office received regarding or referring to Uber, listed by title and date?

Asked by

Duncan Webb

Member for Christchurch Central · Labour Party

• What aides-mémoire, briefings, memos, notes, reports, or any other advice, if any, has the Minister or their Office received regarding or referring to Tesla, listed by title and date?

Asked by

Duncan Webb

Member for Christchurch Central · Labour Party

• What aides-mémoire, briefings, memos, notes, reports, or any other advice, if any, has the Minister or their Office received regarding or referring to Waymo autonomous cars, listed by title and date?

Asked by

Duncan Webb

Member for Christchurch Central · Labour Party

• What aides-mémoire, briefings, memos, notes, reports, or any other advice, if any, has the Minister or their Office received regarding or referring to Wayve technologies, listed by title and date?

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

• How many children were living in the homes affected by Kāinga Ora tenancies terminated between December 2023 and June 2026, broken down by month?

Asked by

Lan Pham

List MP · Green Party

• Was the review of the Dairy Industry Restructuring Act (DIRA) discussed at the meeting the Minister attended on 2/04/2026 noted as "MEET: Helen Clark Foundation, Beehive, Helen Clark Foundation representatives, Agriculture" in his calendar…

Asked by

Tangi Utikere

Member for Palmerston North · Labour Party

• What policies, guidance or contractual requirements govern the management of conflicts of interest in the procurement of independent reviewers for public-private partnership transport projects?

Asked by

Tangi Utikere

Member for Palmerston North · Labour Party

• Does he have confidence that the independent reviewer to be appointed to the Warkworth to Te Hana public-private partnership will be independent of all parties to that contract, and on what basis?

Asked by

Tangi Utikere

Member for Palmerston North · Labour Party

• What is the estimated value of the independent reviewer contract for the Warkworth to Te Hana expressway, and when is that contract expected to be executed?

Asked by

Tangi Utikere

Member for Palmerston North · Labour Party

• Does he consider it appropriate for a firm that has advised NZTA on a public-private partnership transaction to also form part of the team verifying compliance with that contract, and if not, what steps will he take?

Asked by

Tangi Utikere

Member for Palmerston North · Labour Party

• What ringfencing arrangements has he been advised are in place to separate the Arup personnel who worked on the client side of the Warkworth to Te Hana transaction from those who may form part of the independent reviewer team, if any?

Asked by

Tangi Utikere

Member for Palmerston North · Labour Party

• What assurances has he sought or received that conflicts of interest have been managed, if any, after Arup has acted as a client-side adviser to NZTA on the Warkworth to Te Hana public-private partnership, formed part of the unsuccessful…

Asked by

Tangi Utikere

Member for Palmerston North · Labour Party

• When was he or his office first advised that Tūtahi Joint Venture, comprising Arup, Tonkin & Taylor and Bureau Veritas, was the preferred respondent for the independent reviewer contract on the Warkworth to Te Hana public-private…

Asked by

Chris Hipkins

Member for Remutaka · Labour Party

• Further to his answer to written question 29399 (2026): what budget for ground transport, if any, did he or his office make NZTE officials aware of for his March 2025 trip to Toronto, Canada?

Asked by

Chris Hipkins

Member for Remutaka · Labour Party

• Further to his answer to written question 29399 (2026): did he or his office make NZTE officials aware of the ground transport budget as set out in his Cabinet paper 'Proposed Overseas Travel: Hon Shane Jones - March 2025', if so, not, why…

Asked by

Chris Hipkins

Member for Remutaka · Labour Party

• Further to his answer to written question 29399 (2026): did he or his office make NZTE officials aware of the ground transport budget as set out in his Cabinet paper 'Proposed Overseas Travel: Hon Shane Jones - March 2025', if so, on what…