53512 (2025). Hon Rachel Brooking to the Minister for the Environment
Written Question
Published date: 01 Dec 2025
53512 (2025). Hon Rachel Brooking to the Minister for the Environment: What aides-mémoire, briefings, memos, notes, reports, or any other advice, if any, has the Minister or their Office received during the week beginning 10 November 2025, listed by agency, title and date received?
Hon Penny Simmonds: In my capacity as the Minister for the Environment, I received the following documents in the week beginning 10 November 2025:
10/11/2025 - BRF-7079 - Aide memoire: Parihaka - Crown Accord Ministerial Forum 12 November
10 November 2025 - Aide Memoire on Exporting car batteries under the Basel Convention - EPA processing times for standard applications.
10/11/2025 - Briefing on EPA Board Governance Evaluation
12/11/2025 - BRF-6909 - Releasing the national food loss and waste baseline report and recommendation to update definition
12/11/2025 - BRF-6990 - Application Decisions - Waste Investments (October 2025)
12/11/2025 - BRF-6831 - Bay of Plenty Regional Council’s application to decide a breach of air quality standards was due to exceptional circumstances
13/11/2025 - Final Environment Weekly Update week ending 14 November 2025
14/11/2025 - BRF-7103 - Talking points for the Fiordland Marine Guardians' events on 26 and 27 November 2025
It is not in the public interest to release three further titles, as they remain under active consideration.