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Francisco Hernandez

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  How much, if any, did the Minister’s departments, agencies, crown entities and any other bodies that the Minister is responsible for, if any, spend on the carbon neutral government programme in the 2025/26 financial year?

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Francisco Hernandez

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  How much, if any, have the Minister’s departments, agencies, crown entities and any other bodies that the Minister is responsible for, if any, budgeted for the carbon neutral government programme in the 2026/27 financial year?

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Francisco Hernandez

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  How much in total, if any, was spent on renumeration of Crown appointees in the Minister's departments, crown entities and any other bodies that the Minister is responsible for, if any, for the 2022-2023 financial year?

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Francisco Hernandez

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  How much in total, if any, is forecast to be spent on renumeration of Crown appointees in the Minister's departments, crown entities and any other bodies that the Minister is responsible for, if any, for the 2026-27 financial year?

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Francisco Hernandez

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  How much in total, if any, was spent on renumeration of Crown appointees in the Minister's departments, crown entities and any other bodies that the Minister is responsible for, if any, for the 2023-24 financial year?

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Francisco Hernandez

List MP · Green Party

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  How much in total, if any, was spent on renumeration of Crown appointees in the Minister's departments, crown entities and any other bodies that the Minister is responsible for, if any, for the 2025-26 financial year?

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Francisco Hernandez

List MP · Green Party

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  How much, if any, did the Minister’s departments, agencies, crown entities and any other bodies that the Minister is responsible for, if any, spend on the carbon neutral government programme in the 2025/26 financial year?

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Barbara Edmonds

Member for Mana · Labour Party

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  Has the Minister instructed any chief executive not to action the head count reduction targets or baseline savings exercise as part of Budget 2026, and if so, which chief executives?

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Barbara Edmonds

Member for Mana · Labour Party

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  What instructions, if any, has the Minister given to the Chief Executives they are responsible about the public service headcount reduction targets or baseline savings exercise as part of Budget 2026?

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Barbara Edmonds

Member for Mana · Labour Party

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  Has the Minister instructed any chief executive not to action the head count reduction targets or baseline savings exercise as part of Budget 2026, and if so, which chief executives?

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Barbara Edmonds

Member for Mana · Labour Party

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  What instructions, if any, has the Minister given to the Chief Executives they are responsible about the public service headcount reduction targets or baseline savings exercise as part of Budget 2026?

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Barbara Edmonds

Member for Mana · Labour Party

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  Has the Minister instructed any chief executive not to action the head count reduction targets or baseline savings exercise as part of Budget 2026, and if so, which chief executives?

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Barbara Edmonds

Member for Mana · Labour Party

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  What instructions, if any, has the Minister given to the Chief Executives they are responsible about the public service headcount reduction targets or baseline savings exercise as part of Budget 2026?

Asked by

Barbara Edmonds

Member for Mana · Labour Party

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  Has the Minister instructed any chief executive not to action the head count reduction targets or baseline savings exercise as part of Budget 2026, and if so, which chief executives?

Asked by

Barbara Edmonds

Member for Mana · Labour Party

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  What instructions, if any, has the Minister given to the Chief Executives they are responsible about the public service headcount reduction targets or baseline savings exercise as part of Budget 2026?

Asked by

Barbara Edmonds

Member for Mana · Labour Party

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  Has the Minister instructed any chief executive not to action the head count reduction targets or baseline savings exercise as part of Budget 2026, and if so, which chief executives?

Asked by

Barbara Edmonds

Member for Mana · Labour Party

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  What instructions, if any, has the Minister given to the Chief Executives they are responsible about the public service headcount reduction targets or baseline savings exercise as part of Budget 2026?

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Shanan Halbert

List MP · Labour Party

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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 29 June 2026, listed by agency, title and date received?

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Willie Jackson

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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 29 June 2026, listed by agency, title and date received?

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Willie Jackson

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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 29 June 2026, listed by agency, title and date received?

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Kieran McAnulty

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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 29 June 2026, listed by agency, title and date received?

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Priyanca Radhakrishnan

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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 29 June 2026, listed by agency, title and date received?

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Shanan Halbert

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  What papers, if any, did the Minister take to Cabinet during the week beginning 29 June 2026, by title and date?

Asked by

Willie Jackson

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  What papers, if any, did the Minister take to Cabinet during the week beginning 29 June 2026, by title and date?

Asked by

Willie Jackson

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  What papers, if any, did the Minister take to Cabinet during the week beginning 29 June 2026, by title and date?

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

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  What papers, if any, did the Minister take to Cabinet during the week beginning 29 June 2026, by title and date?

Asked by

Priyanca Radhakrishnan

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  What papers, if any, did the Minister take to Cabinet during the week beginning 29 June 2026, by title and date?

Asked by

Willie Jackson

List MP · Labour Party

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  How many full-time equivalent positions, if any, are dedicated to advising him and senior officials on kaupapa Māori will remain at Te Puni Kōkiri if the current change proposal is implemented in full?

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Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

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  What advice, if any, has the Minister received confirming that no Ministry of Social Development staff member's employment depends on whether the emergency housing target is met?

• 30327 (matches this search)

  What written advice, if any, did the Minister receive regarding the potential impact on emergency housing applicants of linking reduction targets to staff performance management?

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Kieran McAnulty

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  How many emergency housing applications were declined in each month since 27 November 2023, and how many of those applicants, if any, received any alternative support?

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Kieran McAnulty

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  What is the Minister's definition of the "operational" boundary that distinguishes the Chief Executive's responsibility from his own accountability for the emergency housing target?

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

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  Will the performance management KPI letter issued to Ministry of Social Development staff on 3 July 2025 be reissued or amended for the 2026/27 year, if not, why not?

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Kieran McAnulty

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  What data, if any, do officials hold on unrecorded housing need arising from declined or discouraged emergency housing applications?

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Kieran McAnulty

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  What assessment, if any, has the Minister made of the Salvation Army briefing finding that none of 21 agencies reported a reduction in homelessness and 14 reported increases?

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Kieran McAnulty

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  What is the source and methodology of the Homelessness Insights report figures cited as reducing from 940 to approximately 550 by March 2025?

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Kieran McAnulty

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  How many people, if any, have moved into the 300 Housing First places announced in September 2025, as distinct from pre-existing places?

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

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  What was the recorded number of people rough sleeping in Auckland in each of the last 24 months?

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

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  How many Housing First places were funded but unfilled by providers before September 2025?

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

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  What proportion of people declined emergency housing were offered no alternative support on eligibility grounds, in each month since January 2024?

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

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  What is known, if anything, about the destination of families who left immediate access transitional housing since the scheme's launch and did not move into long-term housing?

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

Matching question numbers: 30314 (2026), 30316 (2026), 30317 (2026), 30318 (2026)

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  How many children, if any, who left emergency housing motels since the Minister took office were exits other than "priority one", and what is known about their subsequent housing?

• 30310 (matches this search)

  How many, if any, of the approximately 650 Hamilton children have a housing destination recorded as "unknown"?

• 30311 (matches this search)

  Of the Hamilton children who left emergency housing motels other than through Priority One, how many have a recorded housing destination, broken down by housing state?

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  Of the approximately 650 children the Minister states left Hamilton emergency housing motels, how many left through the Priority One category and how many through other exit pathways?

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

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  Did the approximately 650 Hamilton children cited by the Minister relate to contracted emergency housing, non-contracted (Emergency Housing Special Needs Grant) emergency housing, or both?

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

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  What obligation, if any, do officials have to establish where a child goes on leaving emergency housing when the exit is not a Priority One placement?

• 30315 (matches this search)

  What steps do officials take, if any, to record the housing destination of children who exit emergency housing other than through the Priority One category?

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

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  For how long, if at all, does the Ministry track whether a child placed into social housing through Priority One remains housed?

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

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  How many children, if any, placed into social housing through the Priority One category have subsequently returned to emergency housing, since January 2024?

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

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  What is the average and longest length of time children spent in emergency housing before a Priority One social housing placement?

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

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  How many Priority One social housing placements were into Kāinga Ora housing and how many into community housing provider housing since January 2024, broken down by month?

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

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  How many children, if any, flagged under the Priority One category exited emergency housing into a destination other than social housing?

Asked by

Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

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  What data source and reporting date underpins the Minister's claim that all children who exited emergency housing motels through the Priority One category went into social housing?