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Ginny Andersen

List MP · Labour Party

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Did the Ministry estimate how her proposed qualification changes might affect student achievement using current NCEA achievement data and predictions about how students, schools and teachers might respond to the new qualification…

Asked by

Ginny Andersen

List MP · Labour Party

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Did the Ministry estimate how her proposed qualification changes might affect student achievement using current NCEA achievement data and predictions about how students, schools and teachers might respond to the new qualification…

Asked by

Ginny Andersen

List MP · Labour Party

Question

Did the Ministry estimate how her proposed qualification changes might affect student achievement using current NCEA achievement data and predictions about how students, schools and teachers might respond to the new qualification…

Asked by

Ginny Andersen

List MP · Labour Party

Question

Did the Ministry estimate how her proposed qualification changes might affect student achievement using current NCEA achievement data and predictions about how students, schools and teachers might respond to the new qualification…

Asked by

Ginny Andersen

List MP · Labour Party

Question

Did the Ministry estimate how her proposed qualification changes might affect student achievement using current NCEA achievement data and predictions about how students, schools and teachers might respond to the new qualification…

Asked by

Ginny Andersen

List MP · Labour Party

Question

Did the Ministry estimate how her proposed qualification changes might affect student achievement using current NCEA achievement data and predictions about how students, schools and teachers might respond to the new qualification…

Asked by

Ginny Andersen

List MP · Labour Party

Question

Did the Ministry estimate how her proposed qualification changes might affect student achievement using current NCEA achievement data and predictions about how students, schools and teachers might respond to the new qualification…

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Ginny Andersen

List MP · Labour Party

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What additional funding, staffing, professional learning, or resource support, if any, is planned to help schools implement the proposed Arts requirements for Years 0-10?

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Ginny Andersen

List MP · Labour Party

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What assumptions, if any, has the Ministry made about student access to instruments and itinerant music instruction when designing the proposed Music curriculum?

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Ginny Andersen

List MP · Labour Party

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Is the Ministry aware of any arrangement under which Learning Matters provides SpringMath or Ochre Education products, programmes, teacher training or implementation support to New Zealand schools using Ministry funding, including funding…

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Ginny Andersen

List MP · Labour Party

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Has the Ministry of Education communicated with Learning Matters, SpringMath or Ochre Education regarding the distribution, licensing, implementation or provision of SpringMath or Ochre Education programmes in New Zealand schools since 1…

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Priyanca Radhakrishnan

List MP · Labour Party

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How many children, if any, are currently on waitlists for learning support services, including Early Intervention, Ongoing Resourcing Scheme, and specialist assessments, as of 17 September 2026?

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Priyanca Radhakrishnan

List MP · Labour Party

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What operational funding adjustments, if any, have been made for schools in the Maungakiekie electorate since 27 November 2023 to 17 September 2026, listed by school and funding type?

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Priyanca Radhakrishnan

List MP · Labour Party

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What infrastructure or property maintenance funding, if any, has been provided to schools in the Maungakiekie electorate since 27 November 2023 to 17 September 2026, listed by school and project?

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Priyanca Radhakrishnan

List MP · Labour Party

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What staffing or workforce‑related funding, if any, has been provided to schools in the Maungakiekie electorate since 27 November 2023 to 17 September 2026, listed by school and funding category?

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Lan Pham

List MP · Green Party

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Following 37325 (2026), what schools around New Zealand, if any, have exceeded half the Maximum Acceptable Value for nitrate in their drinking water supplies, the level at which additional monitoring requirements apply?

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Lan Pham

List MP · Green Party

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Which schools, if any, currently face long-term 'do not drink' or 'boil water' notices for their water supplies?

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Lawrence Xu-Nan

List MP · Green Party

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How many students, if any, were enrolled in Home Education in 2025; relating to how many home schooling families?

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Lawrence Xu-Nan

List MP · Green Party

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How many students, if any, were enrolled in Home Education from January 1st 2026 - June 30th 2026; relating to how many home schooling families?

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Lawrence Xu-Nan

List MP · Green Party

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How many, if any, homeschooling whānau as at 16 September 2026 have returned a Statutory Declaration for the 2025/2 period (July 1st 2025 - December 31st 2025)?

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Lawrence Xu-Nan

List MP · Green Party

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How many, if any, homeschooling whānau as at 16 September 2026 have returned a Statutory Declaration for the 2026/1 period (January 1st 2026 - June 30th 2026)?

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Lawrence Xu-Nan

List MP · Green Party

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In response to Reply 38004 (2026), were the Chief Digital Officer, Accreditation Authority, or Change Advisory Board informed that trial accounts had not been included in access-control testing prior to the Certification and Accreditation…

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Lawrence Xu-Nan

List MP · Green Party

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In response to Reply 38004 (2026), was the exclusion of trial accounts from access control testing recorded as a residual risk, limitation, assumption, exception or outstanding action in the Certification and Accreditation approval…

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Lawrence Xu-Nan

List MP · Green Party

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How many, if any, remediation items remained open at go-live for the Student Monitoring, Assessment and Reporting Tool (SMART) and did any of those items relate to access control, authorisation, Identity and Access Management, monitoring…

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Lawrence Xu-Nan

List MP · Green Party

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In response to Reply 38004 (2026) who, if anyone, determined and/or approved the scope of the access-control testing, including the exclusion of trial accounts, and what was the basis, if any, for concluding that testing of trial accounts…

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Lan Pham

List MP · Green Party

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Following Reply 39114 (2026), what is the reason (such as e. coli pollution, nitrate pollution, etc) that each of the listed schools need more reliably safe drinking water?

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Lan Pham

List MP · Green Party

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Following Reply 39114 (2026), which of the listed schools' drinking water supplies have breached a Maximum Acceptable Value from the Drinking Water Standards?

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Lan Pham

List MP · Green Party

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Following Reply 39114 (2026), which, if any, of the listed schools' drinking water supplies come from surface water (e.g. stream, river) or groundwater?

Asked by

Lan Pham

List MP · Green Party

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Following Reply 39114 (2026), if any of the listed schools' drinking water supplies have breached a Maximum Acceptable Value from the Drinking Water Standards, what standard(s) have they breached?

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Lan Pham

List MP · Green Party

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Following Reply 37325 (2026), what budget was used to pay for the upgrades to drinking water supplies at each of Five Forks School, Te Kowhai School, Ashburton Borough School – Lagmhor site, Harrisville School, and Te Wharekura o Te Rau…

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Lan Pham

List MP · Green Party

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Following Reply 37325 (2026), did the upgrades to drinking water supplies at each of the listed schools come at the expense of other investments the schools could have made, such as in resources for teaching and learning?

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Ginny Andersen

List MP · Labour Party

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What papers, if any, did the Minister take to Cabinet during the week beginning 7 September 2026, by title and date?

Asked by

Phil Twyford

Member for Te Atatū · Labour Party

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What papers, if any, did the Minister take to Cabinet during the week beginning 7 September 2026, by title and date?

Asked by

Willow-Jean Prime

List MP · Labour Party

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What papers, if any, did the Minister take to Cabinet during the week beginning 7 September 2026, by title and date?

Asked by

Ginny Andersen

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 7 September 2026, listed by agency, title and date received?

Asked by

Phil Twyford

Member for Te Atatū · 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 7 September 2026, listed by agency, title and date received?

Asked by

Willow-Jean Prime

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 7 September 2026, listed by agency, title and date received?

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Lawrence Xu-Nan

List MP · Green Party

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Does the Minister find it acceptable that in PISA 2025 New Zealand was lowest among 36 other OECD nations on the index of students' sense of belonging; and, if not, what, if anything, is the Government doing now to address New Zealand…

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Lawrence Xu-Nan

List MP · Green Party

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Did the Minister find it acceptable that in PISA 2022, which was published in December 2023, that only 68% of New Zealand students felt that they belong at school; and, if not, what did she do to address this and, following the release of…

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Lawrence Xu-Nan

List MP · Green Party

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In response to Reply 37848 (2026) and Reply 33140 (2026), if trial accounts were excluded from access-control testing because they were not intended to access the production environment, what assurances, if any, were established before the…

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Ginny Andersen

List MP · Labour Party

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What papers, if any, did the Minister take to Cabinet during the week beginning 31 August 2026, by title and date?

Asked by

Phil Twyford

Member for Te Atatū · Labour Party

Question

What papers, if any, did the Minister take to Cabinet during the week beginning 31 August 2026, by title and date?

Asked by

Willow-Jean Prime

List MP · Labour Party

Question

What papers, if any, did the Minister take to Cabinet during the week beginning 31 August 2026, by title and date?

Asked by

Ginny Andersen

List MP · Labour Party

Question

What aides-mémoire, briefings, memos, notes, reports, or any other advice, if any, has the Minister or their Office received during the week beginning 31 August 2026, listed by agency, title and date received?

Asked by

Phil Twyford

Member for Te Atatū · Labour Party

Question

What aides-mémoire, briefings, memos, notes, reports, or any other advice, if any, has the Minister or their Office received during the week beginning 31 August 2026, listed by agency, title and date received?

Asked by

Willow-Jean Prime

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 31 August 2026, listed by agency, title and date received?