28471 (2025). Tangi Utikere to the Minister of Local Government

Written Question
Published date: 18 Jun 2025
28471 (2025). Tangi Utikere to the Minister of Local Government: What aides-mémoire, briefings, memos, notes, reports, or any other advice, if any, has the Minister or their Office received during the week beginning 26 May 2025, listed by agency, title and date received?
Hon Simon Watts: As the Minister of Local Government, I received the following aides-mémoire, briefings, memos, notes and reports from the Department of Internal Affairs during the week beginning 26 May 2025: • [title withheld] (27 May 2025); • Water Service Delivery Plan Update (May 2025) (27 May 2025); • Minister visit to East Coast, 30 May (27 May 2025); • Review of Wairoa Crown Manager appointment (27 May 2025); • Update and timing on regulatory oversight of development levies, water services, and rates rebates (27 May 2025); • Local Government Work Programme and Priorities – June 2025 (28 May 2025); • Meeting with the Minister of Justice – local electoral reform (28 May 2025); • [title withheld] (28 May 2025); • Meeting with Local Government New Zealand (29 May 2025); • Local Government Status Report WE 29 May 2025 (29 May 2025); • Meeting with Raveen Jaduram, Chair of the Water Services Authority on 5 June 2025 (29 May 2025); • First release of council performance information (29 May 2025); • Estimates 2025/26 – draft responses to supplementary questions from Governance and Administration Committee (29 May 2025); and • [title withheld] (29 May 2025).