38546 (2024). Rt Hon Chris Hipkins to the Prime Minister
Written Question
Published date: 09 Jul 2024
38546 (2024). Rt Hon Chris Hipkins to the Prime Minister: What advice, reports, briefings, aide-memoires, risk-registers, or any other documents, if any, has the Prime Minister or any member of their Office received during the week of 3 June 2024, by title and date?
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 documents between 3-21 June 2024 from my officials in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC):
• Prime Minister’s Weekly Brief, 5 June 2024
• Vote Prime Minister and Cabinet: June Technical Adjustment Submission from 2023/24 to 2024/25, 10 June 2024
• Foreign honour for New Zealand citizens, 10 June 2024
• Prime Minister’s Weekly Brief, 12 June 2024
• Vote Prime Minister and Cabinet: Responses to 2024/25 Estimates Hearing Additional Questions, 17 June 2024
• Prime Minister’s Weekly Brief, 19 June 2024
• 2024 annual review of Ministers’ interests and related party transactions, 20 June 2024
• Responsibilities of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Minister for Media and Communications (Jenny Marcroft MP), 20 June 2024
• Transfer of responsibility – [remainder of title withheld], 20 June 2024
• Including Hon Erica Stanford’s Role as Lead Coordination Minister on the Ministerial List, 20 June 2024
• Publication of non-disclosed New Zealand Royal Honours, 21 June 2024
• Foreign honour for New Zealand citizens, 21 June 2024
• Governor-General’s travel to Paris for the Olympic Games, 21 June 2024
• Honours processes – reporting back on options, 21 June 2024
• Intelligence and Security Committee Meeting on 26 June 2024, 21 June 2024.
In addition, jointly with the Minister for Emergency Management and Recovery I have received the following documents:
• North Island Weather Event: Progress Update on Categorisation and Buyouts, Sediment and Debris – 6 June 2024
• North Island Weather Event: Progress Update on Categorisation and Buyouts, Sediment and Debris -13 June 2024
• North Island Weather Event: Progress Update on Categorisation and Buyouts, Sediment and Debris -20 June 2024
I also received one document on 7 June and one document 10 June 2024. It is not in the public interest to release the titles of these documents, nor the remainder of the title partially withheld.