52874 (2025). Shanan Halbert to the Minister for Vocational Education
Written Question
Published date: 24 Nov 2025
52874 (2025). Shanan Halbert to the Minister for Vocational Education: What aides-mémoire, briefings, memos, notes, reports, or any other advice, if any, has the Minister or their Office received during the week beginning 3 November 2025, listed by agency, title and date received?
Hon Penny Simmonds: I refer the Member to the list below of the advice, reports, briefings, aide memoires, or any other documents, my office or I received during the week beginning 3 November 2025:
Tertiary Education Commission
6 November 2025 - Minister Priorities Dashboard
6- November - Constitutions for polytechnic councils
7 November 2025 - Background information on the TEC PBE Liability and Balance Sheet Mechanism
7 November 2025 - Decisions on the recapitalisation of the VET network.
Ministry of Education
3 November 2025 - Factual Talking Points for upcoming ICDE Speech
6 November 2025 - Additional notes from statutory VET consultation
6 November 2025 - TEC Appointments - Letters to Members
6 November 2025 - TREF – Additional advice on timing of ERI changes
6 November 2025 - Tertiary Education Weekly Update
This answer does not cover members of my office who receive a large amount of material every week. Asking them to collate that material would require substantial collation and research and prevent them from undertaking their substantive roles.
Please note some titles have been withheld as they are either sensitive in nature or still under active consideration. It is not in the public interest to release them at this time.