20773 (2025). Rt Hon Chris Hipkins to the Prime Minister

20773 (2025). Rt Hon Chris Hipkins to the Prime Minister: What aides-mémoire, briefings, memos, notes, reports, or any other advice, if any, has the Minister or their Office received during the week beginning 28 Apirl 2025, listed by agency, title and date received?

Rt Hon Christopher Luxon: As Prime Minister, I regularly request and receive advice from officials on a range of matters. In my capacity as the Prime Minister, I received the following document from 28 April – 4 May 2025 from my officials in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC): Prime Minister’s Weekly Brief, 2 May 2025. I also received two documents in the specified timeframe, however it is not in the public interest to release the titles of these documents. I have received briefings from the Policy Advisory Group, a business unit of DPMC, during the requested timeframe 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.