Written questions

Asked by

Chris Hipkins

Member for Remutaka · Labour Party

• How many contractors, if any, are engaged by Ministerial Services and are based in ministerial offices, by ministerial office?

Asked by

Chris Hipkins

Member for Remutaka · Labour Party

• How many contractors, if any are engaged by Ministerial Services, as at 30 June 2026?

Asked by

Chris Hipkins

Member for Remutaka · Labour Party

• How many contractors, if any, are engaged by Ministerial Services are based in ministerial offices, as at 30 June 2026?

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

• Further to reply 28729 (2026), on what date did the first household enter Immediate Access Transitional Housing, and over what period were the 325 recorded exits measured?

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

• Further to reply 28874 (2026), what target exit-to-long-term-housing rate, if any, has been set for Immediate Access Transitional Housing, and does the Minister consider the current 19% rate to be on track to meet it?

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

• Further to reply 28875 (2026), as 5% of the 1,421 outreach support activities resulted in a household being housed, what total funding was provided to outreach services over that period, and what is the resulting cost per household housed?

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

• Further to reply 28936 (2026), how many households does the Minister expect the new $2.7 million for the six additional locations to support, and what target outcomes attach to that funding?

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

• Further to reply 28870 (2026) and reply 28936 (2026), as the $14.5 million is drawn from the transitional housing appropriation, is this new money or a reprioritisation of existing transitional housing funding, and what is reduced…

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

• Further to reply 28877 (2026), of the 948 households currently in transitional housing who were rough sleeping before being housed, what is the median length of stay to date, and how many have been in transitional housing for more than six…

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

• Further to reply 29021 (2026), as the latest three months of Housing First data are revised each month, will the Minister release both the original and revised figures for each of the last six months so the scale of those revisions can be…

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

• Further to reply 28873 (2026), what is the total cost of lease payments to date on social housing places that have been leased but not yet tenanted under the additional 300-place programme?

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

• Further to reply 28730 (2026), in Wellington, why do 35 signed leased properties correspond to only 30 commenced tenancies, and how long have those five leased-but-untenanted properties stood vacant?

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Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

• Further to reply 28876 (2026), which referred only to replies 28729 (2026) and 28728 (2026), does the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development hold any record of the living situation or address of households at the point they exited…

Asked by

Chris Hipkins

Member for Remutaka · Labour Party

• Further to his answer to written question 28777 (2026): On what dates did he receive this advice from the Policy Advisory Group regarding the Smith v Fonterra case?

Asked by

Chris Hipkins

Member for Remutaka · Labour Party

• Further to his answer to written question 28777 (2026): On what dates, if any, has he discussed the Smith v Fonterra case with the Chief Executive of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet since 24 May 2026?

Asked by

Chris Hipkins

Member for Remutaka · Labour Party

• Further to his answer to written question 28762 (2026): has he or his Chief of Staff specifically asked his staff whether they have received hand-delivered or printed documents from external parties that were not entered onto any official…

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Camilla Belich

List MP · Labour Party

• What assessment, if any, has been made of the potential cyber security risk to government systems arising from public sector workforce reductions?

Asked by

Camilla Belich

List MP · Labour Party

• Has any review been undertaken of the competitiveness of public sector cyber security remuneration relative to the private sector; if so, what did it find?

Asked by

Camilla Belich

List MP · Labour Party

• Has the Government Chief Information Security Officer system-leadership function experienced any reduction in staffing or budget since 1 January 2024?

Asked by

Camilla Belich

List MP · Labour Party

• Across all public service agencies with cyber security or information security functions, how many, if any, such roles have been disestablished since 1 January 2024?

Asked by

Camilla Belich

List MP · Labour Party

• What advice, if any, has the Treasury provided on the fiscal risks of under-resourcing national cyber security functions?

Asked by

Camilla Belich

List MP · Labour Party

• Were savings or baseline reduction expectations, if any, applied to the security and intelligence agencies in Budget 2026; if so, what was the dollar value sought from each?

Asked by

Camilla Belich

List MP · Labour Party

• Did Vote Communications Security and Intelligence and Vote Security Intelligence increase or decrease in real (inflation-adjusted) terms in each of the last three Budgets?

Asked by

Camilla Belich

List MP · Labour Party

• What additional operating and capital funding, if any, did the GCSB and NZSIS each seek through the Budget process in each of Budget 2024, 2025 and 2026, and what amount was appropriated?

Asked by

Camilla Belich

List MP · Labour Party

• Has he received any advice, including in the Briefing to the Incoming Minister or subsequent briefings, warning that cyber security resourcing is insufficient relative to the current threat environment; if so, what was his response?

Asked by

Camilla Belich

List MP · Labour Party

• Were the GCSB and NZSIS subject to the Government's baseline savings expectations; if so, what amount was returned or reprioritised in each of Budget 2024, 2025 and 2026?

Asked by

Camilla Belich

List MP · Labour Party

• Have any cyber security functions, investigations, or categories of threat activity been deprioritised, scaled back, or discontinued as a result of staffing or budget constraints; if so, which?

Asked by

Camilla Belich

List MP · Labour Party

• 30157

  What is the current vacancy rate and number of unfilled established positions, if any, in the GCSB's cyber security functions, and how does this compare to each of the last three years?

• 30158

  What was the staff turnover or attrition rate for cyber security roles in the GCSB in each of the last three financial years?

• 30159

  How many full-time equivalent staff were employed in the National Cyber Security Centre as at 30 June in each of the last five years?

Asked by

Ginny Andersen

List MP · Labour Party

• Is engaging with potential education service providers an operational matter that should be managed by education agencies and if so, why did she and her staff member meet with Learning First Chief Executive, Ben Jensen, on multiple…

Asked by

Tangi Utikere

Member for Palmerston North · Labour Party

• What advice, if any, has the Minister received on whether water service providers that sought to have water services strategies in place by 30 June 2026 were able to do so?

Asked by

Tangi Utikere

Member for Palmerston North · Labour Party

• What advice, if any, has the Minister received on whether the current postal voting system contains sufficient safeguards to detect and prevent electoral fraud?

Asked by

Tangi Utikere

Member for Palmerston North · Labour Party

• Was an actual estimated per-election-cycle cost of transitioning all local elections to booth voting included in briefing LG20258140, and if so, why were they withheld from the public?

Asked by

Tangi Utikere

Member for Palmerston North · Labour Party

• What criteria, if any, will the Minister apply in deciding whether to use the secondary legislation power in the Amendment Paper to the Local Government (System Improvements) Amendment Bill to exclude particular committee types from the…

Asked by

Tangi Utikere

Member for Palmerston North · Labour Party

• What advice, if any, has the Minister received on whether the policy to 'prevent non-democratically elected members' affects joint committees established between local authorities and iwi under co-governance arrangements that are not…

Asked by

Tangi Utikere

Member for Palmerston North · Labour Party

• Why did the Minister choose to introduce the changes to the Local Government (System Improvements) Amendment Bill via an Amendment Paper at the Committee of the Whole House stage, bypassing select committee scrutiny, rather than through…

Asked by

Tangi Utikere

Member for Palmerston North · Labour Party

• Does the Minister consider the evidence base for amendments to the Local Government Act 2002 to be adequate, when the Department of Internal Affairs' Regulatory Impact Analysis panel found the RIS could not meet the consulted criterion and…

Asked by

Tangi Utikere

Member for Palmerston North · Labour Party

• How many council committees currently include iwi or hapū representatives appointed under Treaty settlement or redress legislation who hold voting rights, and did the Minister seek or receive that figure before bringing the proposal…

Asked by

Tangi Utikere

Member for Palmerston North · Labour Party

• 30169

  Does the Minister think that skipping the standard exposure draft consultation process for the wastewater regulations was a mistake, and what specific process change, if any, has the Minister put in place to prevent equivalent drafting…

• 30173

  Was an exposure draft of the Water Services (Wastewater Environmental Performance Standards) Regulations 2025 released for technical review before they were made on 17 November 2025, and if not, why not?

Asked by

Tangi Utikere

Member for Palmerston North · Labour Party

• What was the cost, if any, to the Water Services Authority of the additional stakeholder engagement and statutory consultation required under the Water Services Act 2021 to correct the drafting errors identified after the wastewater…

Asked by

Tangi Utikere

Member for Palmerston North · Labour Party

• What estimate, if any, has the Minister received of the additional consenting costs to councils and ratepayers attributable to the drafting errors in the wastewater standards, and the delay in correcting them?

Asked by

Tangi Utikere

Member for Palmerston North · Labour Party

• How many resource consent applications were lodged or processed between 19 December 2025 and the date the technical amendments for wastewater services came into force, and what advice, if any, has the Minister received on whether those…

Asked by

Ginny Andersen

List MP · Labour Party

• 29656

  Question published 26 June 2026

  What contracts, if any, has the Education Review Office signed with Learning First since 1 December 2023 and for each such contract, what was it for, when, if at all, was it tendered, when was it signed and what was the value?

• 29660

  Question published 26 June 2026

  When, if at all, did Learning First first start working with the Education Review Office and what work have they done for that agency?

• 29811

  Question published 29 June 2026

  What advice, if any, has Learning First provided the Education Review Office about curriculum implementation and when was any such advice provided?

• 29817

  Question published 29 June 2026

  What advice, if any, has Learning First provided the Education Review Office about curriculum reform and when was any such advice provided?

Asked by

Kahurangi Carter

List MP · Green Party

• What advice, if any, did the Minister receive regarding security guards being placed with children in care, as per page 22 of the Aroturuki Tamariki Experiences of Care 24/25 report?

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

• What reports has she received linking the Ministry of Social Development's "We Together" initiative to regional performance against the emergency housing and Jobseeker Support reduction targets?

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

• How many people in Regional Commissioner roles at the Ministry of Social Development left the role or the Ministry during or at the end of the 2025/26 financial year, and how many of them were subject to a performance improvement plan at…

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

• Will she release the aggregate results for Regional Commissioners at the Ministry of Social Development against the "Housing services effectiveness" measure for the 2025/26 financial year?

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

• How many benefit sanctions did the Ministry of Social Development apply in each region during the 2025/26 financial year, and what relationship do these have to the Jobseeker Support reduction measure in Regional Commissioner performance…

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

• How many households that exited emergency housing during the 2025/26 financial year had their recorded destination listed as "unknown", "no fixed abode", or an equivalent category?

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

• What advice has she received on whether linking the performance ratings of Ministry of Social Development staff to reductions in emergency housing placements creates a risk that eligible applicants are declined, or households exited, in…

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

• How many emergency housing Special Needs Grant applications did the Ministry of Social Development decline in each quarter of the 2025/26 financial year, and how does this compare with the 2024/25 financial year?