8806 (2025). Benjamin Doyle to the Associate Minister of Health

Written Question

Published date: 17 Mar 2025

Metadata

Document type:	Written Question
Parliament number:	54
Question number:	8806 (2025)
Question asked:	04 Mar 2025
Member asking:	Benjamin Doyle
Portfolio:	Associate Minister of Health
Minister replying:	Hon Casey Costello
Answer received:	12 Mar 2025
Status:	Question Answered
Reply type:	Reply
Document ID:	WQ_08806_2025
Document guid:	d286c7b2-3d0a-40a2-b931-317354c65439

8806 (2025). Benjamin Doyle to the Associate Minister of Health: What engagement, if any, has the minister or their office had with community and sexual health organisations and experts regarding the regulation of POCT (STI self-test kits)?

Hon Casey Costello: Since becoming Associate Minister of Health, I have regularly engaged with a range of stakeholders in relation to a variety of issues concerning the health sector, including sexual health. A central record of all of these conversations is not held. My Ministerial diary is proactively released at the following link: https://www.beehive.govt.nz/minister/hon-casey-costello