18292 (2025). Hon Kieran McAnulty to the Associate Minister of Housing

18292 (2025). Hon Kieran McAnulty to the Associate Minister of Housing: How many people, if any, have received emergency housing in motels, boarding houses, hotels, or lodges since 27 November 2023, broken down by accommodation type and region?

Hon Tama Potaka: Corrected reply: I refer the member to the attached table, which provides Emergency Housing Grants by Region and accommodation type funded from December 2023 to July 2024. From August 2024, the 'type of accommodation funded' was no longer captured in the application questions for the Emergency Housing Grant (EHG). I am advised that this information may be held on individual files and would require substantial manual collation. The Ministry of Social Development would have to divert personnel from their core duties to provide the information sought by the Member. Therefore, in accordance with Speaker’s Ruling 210/6, I consider that the time and expense of answering the Member’s question is not in the public