10809 (2025). Teanau Tuiono to the Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety

Written Question

Published date: 26 Mar 2025

Metadata

Document type:	Written Question
Parliament number:	54
Question number:	10809 (2025)
Question asked:	16 Mar 2025
Member asking:	Teanau Tuiono
Portfolio:	Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety
Minister replying:	Hon Brooke van Velden
Answer received:	23 Mar 2025
Status:	Question Answered
Reply type:	Reply
Document ID:	WQ_10809_2025
Document guid:	2ca6f23d-f632-4a6f-9474-6984c6f9929a

10809 (2025). Teanau Tuiono to the Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety: What evidence or analysis, if any, did she base her recent statement on, that “But what I can say is that it's very widely understood that the minimum wage is not a poverty reduction tool,” listed by title and date?

Hon Brooke van Velden: Minimum Wage Review 2024 (Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, November 2024); Minimum Wages in New Zealand: Policy and practice in the 21st century (David C. Maré and Dean R. Hyslop, March 2021).