56357 (2024). Francisco Hernandez to the Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs

Written Question

Published date: 20 Sep 2024

Metadata

Document type:	Written Question
Parliament number:	54
Question number:	56357 (2024)
Question asked:	08 Sep 2024
Member asking:	Francisco Hernandez
Portfolio:	Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs
Minister replying:	Hon Andrew Bayly
Answer received:	16 Sep 2024
Status:	Question Answered
Reply type:	Reply
Document ID:	WQ_56357_2024
Document guid:	9fde6043-e926-4594-8001-7465a315510d

56357 (2024). Francisco Hernandez to the Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs: What briefings, advice, aide memoires, emails, text messages, memorandums and any other form of communication, broken down by title and date, did the minister, or their departments, if any, send or receive to the Minister of Finance or Minister for Public Services as part of proposing 'savings' as part of the 'baseline savings exercise'?

Hon Andrew Bayly: I received two letters from the Minister of Finance related to Budget 2024: - 22 December 2024, letter to Hon David Seymour, Associate Minister of Finance, copied to me and other MBIE’s portfolio Ministers, titled ‘Fiscal objectives across the term and Budget 2024 expectations’ - 23 April 2024 (updated/corrected on 24 April 2024), titled ‘Budget 2024 decisions – Commerce and Consumer Affairs and Small Business and Manufacturing portfolios’.