43658 (2025). Lan Pham to the Minister of Local Government

43658 (2025). Lan Pham to the Minister of Local Government: What briefings, reports, advice, memos, aides-memoire, or any other document, if any, did the Minister or their office received in the month of August, listed by title and date?

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 month of August 2025, • Building Nations conference 2025 (1 August 2025); • 2025 Legislation Programme: Update on Local Government Bills (4 August 2025); • North Island Weather Events Monthly Progress Update on Categorisation, Buyouts, Infrastructure and Local Transport Projects (5 August 2025); • Going for Housing Growth: Infrastructure Funding Settings – Briefing 9: Supplementary decisions for drafting instructions (7 August 2025); • Local Government Status Report WE 7 August (6 August 2025); • Minister attending NZ Trade and Industrial Waters Conference 12 August 2025 (7 August 2025); • Title Withheld (7 August 2025); • Delivering local electoral system reform for 2028 (8 August 2025); • Approval of Draft Select Committee Initial Briefing (12 August 2025); • Options for elected members’ access to information (12 August 2025); • Minister meeting with Datacom 13 August 2025 (11 August 2025); • Title withheld (13 August 2025); • Title withheld (13 August 2025); • Candidate nominations and the local government elections 2025 (13 August 2025); • Notes: Land access and Local Water Done Well (14 August 2025); • Local Government Status Report WE 14 August (14 August 2025); • Local government portfolio and work on the National Adaptation Framework (14 August 2025); • Aide memoire: Taumata Rangitira Hui 2025 (15 August 2025). • Aide memoire to support City and Regional Deals discussion at the August Infrastructure and Investment Ministers Group meeting (18 August 2025); • Te Arawa River Iwi Trust Accord, 20 August 2025 (18 August 2025) • Local Government Status Report WE 21 August 2025 (21 August 2025) • Title withheld (21 August 2025); • Working group to advise on further opportunities to reduce the cost of providing water services (27 August 2025); • Local Government Status Report WE 28 August 2025 (28 August 2025); • Taituarā – Local Government Professionals Aotearoa Annual Conference (28 August 2025); • Title withheld (28 August 2025); • Title withheld (28 August 2025); • Title withheld (28 August 2025); • Rates Rebates Scheme efficiencies (28 August 2025); • City and Regional Deals Phase 2 (28 August 2025); • Local Government Commission: Decision Briefing for the 2025 appointments round (28 August 2025); As the Minister of Local Government, I received the following aides-mémoire, briefings, memos, notes, reports from the Water Services Authority - Taumata Arowai, • Threshold for regulating small drinking water supplies (6 August 2025) • Title withheld (8 August 2025) • Title withheld (13 August 2025) • Briefing on changes to acceptable solutions [MB-001039] (27 August 2025) And, as the Minister of Local Government, I received the following briefing from Datacom, • Response to Minister Watts Briefing (25 August 2025)