6525 (2025). Hon Dr Ayesha Verrall to the Minister of Health

6525 (2025). Hon Dr Ayesha Verrall to the Minister of Health: What correspondence, including letters, emails, text messages, WhatsApp, signal, or any other form of electronic communication, if any, has the Minister or any member of their Office sent or received related to the merger and after-hours/urgent care changes at Napier Health Centre, by subject and date?

Hon Simeon Brown: I am advised that correspondence my office receives is not categorised by topic. Accordingly, the information requested is not available in an easily reportable format. It would not be a good use of taxpayer-funded staff’s time - including those employed by the Ministry of Health and Health New Zealand who work in my office - to collate and organise by topic a list of all correspondence they have received. It would not be in the public interest to do so.