Written questions

Asked by

Chris Hipkins

Member for Remutaka · Labour Party

• Further to his answer to written question 28986 (2026): were his flights to Toronto Canada in March 2025 booked on 7 February 2025, and if so, was this prior to Cabinet approving his Cabinet Paper, Proposed Travel Overseas: Hon Shane Jones…

Asked by

Ginny Andersen

List MP · Labour Party

• Further to Written Question 29641; what advancement requests are in the pipeline?

Asked by

Chris Hipkins

Member for Remutaka · Labour Party

• Further to his answer to written question 28988 (2026): did he ask or direct anyone to amend his flights to Toronto Canada in March 2025, if so, on what date?

Asked by

Chris Hipkins

Member for Remutaka · Labour Party

• Further to his answer to written question 28988 (2026): did any member of his office ask or direct anyone to amend his flights to Toronto Canada in March 2025, if so, on what date?

Asked by

Chris Hipkins

Member for Remutaka · Labour Party

• Further to his answer to written question 28970 (2026): what was the total cost of these charges?

Asked by

Chris Hipkins

Member for Remutaka · Labour Party

• 32097

  Further to his answer to written question 28966 (2026): how was his office advised?

• 32098

  Further to his answer to written question 28966 (2026): who advised his office?

Asked by

Chris Hipkins

Member for Remutaka · Labour Party

• Further to his answer to written question 28963 (2026): on 4 February 2025, did the Prime Minister approve this travel on the understanding that the flights would be business class flights?

Asked by

Ginny Andersen

List MP · Labour Party

• Further to Written Question 29641; what number of these enhancements will be complete by the end of the year, if any?

Asked by

Chris Hipkins

Member for Remutaka · Labour Party

• Further to his answer to written question 28963 (2026): on 4 February 2025, did the Prime Minister approve this travel on the understanding that the flights would be premium economy class flights?

Asked by

Chris Hipkins

Member for Remutaka · Labour Party

• Further to his answer to written question 28971 (2026): what was the total cost of these charges?

Asked by

Chris Hipkins

Member for Remutaka · Labour Party

• Further to his answer to written question 29678 (2026): was his hotel during his 2025 stay in Toronto, Canada the InterContinental Toronto Centre?

Asked by

Chris Hipkins

Member for Remutaka · Labour Party

• Further to his answer to written question 29677 (2026): how did he travel to each of the “several meetings and events that were not held at the Convention Centre” that he attended?

Asked by

Ginny Andersen

List MP · Labour Party

• Further to Written Question 29641; Which enhancements, if any, seek to fill gaps or limitations in Police's current frontline information management systems?

Asked by

Chris Hipkins

Member for Remutaka · Labour Party

• Further to his answer to written question 29677 (2026): what were locations for each of the “several meetings and events that were not held at the Convention Centre” that he attended?

Asked by

Chris Hipkins

Member for Remutaka · Labour Party

• Further to his answer to written question 29676 (2026): for each of the meetings, if any, that he attended during his March 2025 visit to Toronto, Canada that were not held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre or his hotel, what was the…

Asked by

Chris Hipkins

Member for Remutaka · Labour Party

• Further to his answer to written question 29677 (2026): what were the names of each of the “several meetings and events that were not held at the Convention Centre” that he attended?

Asked by

Chris Hipkins

Member for Remutaka · Labour Party

• Further to his answer to written question 29673 (2026): how many meetings, if any, did he attend during his March 2025 visit to Toronto, Canada that were not held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre or his hotel?

Asked by

Chris Hipkins

Member for Remutaka · Labour Party

• Further to his answer to written question 29673 (2026): for each of the meetings, if any, that he attended during his March 2025 visit to Toronto, Canada that were not held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre or his hotel, on what date…

Asked by

Chris Hipkins

Member for Remutaka · Labour Party

• Further to his answer to written question 29672 (2026): did he travel directly from Toronto Airport to his hotel upon arriving in Toronto Canada for his March 2025 ministerial visit, if not, where did he stop prior to travelling to his…

Asked by

Chris Hipkins

Member for Remutaka · Labour Party

• Further to his answer to written question 29669 (2026): who attended each of these meetings?

Asked by

Chris Hipkins

Member for Remutaka · Labour Party

• Further to his answer to written question 29669 (2026): where were each of these meetings held?

Asked by

Chris Hipkins

Member for Remutaka · Labour Party

• Who approved the C$3791.15 cost of the vehicle service for Minister Jones’s Toronto trip in March 2025 being charged to Ministerial Service and on what date was that approval given?

Asked by

Chris Hipkins

Member for Remutaka · Labour Party

• Further to his answer to written question 30392 (2026): was he disappointed that he was not made aware of this overspend prior to this time, if not, why not?

Asked by

Chris Hipkins

Member for Remutaka · Labour Party

• Further to his answer to written question 30392 (2026): why was he made aware at this time?

Asked by

Chris Hipkins

Member for Remutaka · Labour Party

• Further to his answer to written question 30392 (2026): who made him aware in June 2026?

Asked by

Lan Pham

List MP · Green Party

• What is the timeline for repayment of the $18.13 million loan provided by Kānoa – Regional Economic Development & Investment Unit for the "Tukituki Water Security Project (TSWP) Pre-Construction" project?

Asked by

Lan Pham

List MP · Green Party

• Who is the guarantor for the $18.13 million loan provided by Kānoa – Regional Economic Development & Investment Unit to the "Tukituki Water Security Project (TSWP) Pre-Construction" that will be liable for the loan if the primary borrower…

Asked by

Lan Pham

List MP · Green Party

• Who, specifically, will be required to pay back the $18.13 million loan provided by Kānoa – Regional Economic Development & Investment Unit to the "Tukituki Water Security Project (TSWP) Pre-Construction" if the project does not proceed to…

Asked by

Lan Pham

List MP · Green Party

• What, specifically, are the terms of the $18.13 million loan provided by Kānoa – Regional Economic Development & Investment Unit to the "Tukituki Water Security Project (TSWP) Pre-Construction"?

Asked by

Tamatha Paul

Member for Wellington Central · Green Party

• What, if any, does the government estimate to be the change costs to councils of amalgamating, broken down by council, region, and total if available?

Asked by

Ginny Andersen

List MP · Labour Party

• How many individuals are registered on the National Gang List as of July 2026?

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

• Since 27 January 2025, what other ministerial decisions has he made that directly affect projects or funding in the Hutt South electorate, and in each case was the Cabinet Office consulted?

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

• Will he release the more detailed advice he sought and received from the Cabinet Office on appropriate public communications; and has an agreed working definition of "advocacy" now been included in his management plan?

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

• Which of his social media posts about the Melling Interchange or Te Awa Kairangi has he edited following the Auditor-General's inquiry, on what date was it edited, and what was its original wording?

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

• How many, if any, other Infrastructure Acceleration Fund variations have been approved that transfer funding from housing-enabling infrastructure to a transport project, apart from City Link, and in how many of those was the recipient…

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

• By how many dwellings, if any, has the Hutt City Council's revised stormwater approach reduced the number of homes enabled relative to the 3,500 dwellings contemplated in the October 2022 funding agreement?

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

• What record exists of the discussions he had with the Minister of Finance about the variation request in the House of Representatives and by telephone in mid-to-late March 2025?

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

• Did he at any point explicitly declare his constituency interest in the City Link bridge to the Minister of Finance; if so, on what date and in what form; if not, why not?

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

• On what grounds did he depart from the advice of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development in approving the variation to the IAF agreement on 17 March 2025, and what written record exists of his reasons?

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

• What was the reason for the "great urgency" his office conveyed to Kāinga Ora on 11 March 2025 in seeking a briefing on the variation request, and who instructed his office to convey that urgency?

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

• Does he accept the Controller and Auditor-General's observation that the variation request "had been signalled to the Minister before his management plan changed"; if so, what steps did he take to address the risk that the plan change…

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

• Was he aware that Hutt City Council intended to request an Infrastructure Acceleration Fund variation at the time of his 27 January 2025 meeting with the Cabinet Office to review his agreed management plan; if so, did he disclose that to…

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

• On what date did the former Mayor of Lower Hutt first raise with him the Council's intention to seek a variation to its Infrastructure Acceleration Fund agreement, and in what capacity was he acting during that conversation?

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

• What evidence did Hon Chris Bishop present to the Cabinet Office to show that he would not be able to consider the full picture of transport projects if he could not consider the Melling Interchange and what due diligence, if any, did the…

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

• What specific detailed advice, if any, has the Cabinet Office given Hon Chris Bishop about what would be appropriate to post regarding the Melling Interchange and or the City Link Bridge as a result of the Auditor General’s report,…

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

• Has the Cabinet Office amended its advice regarding potential ministerial conflicts of interest in general, as a result of the Auditor General’s report, Management of conflicts of interest relating to the City Link bridge, and if so, how?

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

• Has the Cabinet Office amended its advice regarding Hon Chris Bishop’s potential conflicts of interest with projects associated with the Melling Interchange as a result of the Auditor General’s report, Management of conflicts of interest…

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

• Why did the Cabinet Office not agree on a mechanism to monitor and verify that all ministerial communications and interactions by the Hon Chris Bishop were consistent with the agreed plan to allow him to make decisions on projects…

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

• Did the Cabinet Office consider that a prohibition on future advocacy on projects associated with the Melling Interchange would not necessarily mitigate a reasonable perception that the Hon Chris Bishop’s constituency interest and prior…

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

• Has the Cabinet Office developed a working definition of “advocacy” following the Auditor General’s advice that the lack of such definition limited the potential effectiveness of advice the Office gave to Hon Chris Bishop about managing…