6003 (2025). Teanau Tuiono to the Prime Minister

6003 (2025). Teanau Tuiono to the Prime Minister: What advice, reports, briefings, aides-memoire, or any other documents, if any, has the Minister or any member of his Office seen about the China Ocean Sample Repository and the National Deep Sea Centre?

Rt Hon Christopher Luxon: As Prime Minister, I regularly request and receive advice from my officials in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC) on a range of matters. I have received briefings from the Policy Advisory Group, a business unit of DPMC, however I am not releasing the titles of these briefings. Furthermore, staff in my office may informally receive documents, including draft documents, from my officials in DPMC and from other agencies, and from Ministers’ offices. This information is not held in a format that can be easily extracted within the time frame.