58023 (2024). Hon Willow-Jean Prime to the Minister for Children

58023 (2024). Hon Willow-Jean Prime to the Minister for Children: How many, if any, children and young persons were waiting for Oranga Tamariki to allocate them to a social worker at end June 2023, interpreted as per 55596 (2024)?

Hon Karen Chhour: I have been advised by Oranga Tamariki that the requested information is not readily available as it is not centrally recorded. To provide the information requested would require significant manual collation across agencies and I am not prepared to ask this of my officials at this time. As such, in accordance with the Speaker’s Ruling 199-3, I consider that the time, and therefore the expense, of answering the Member’s question is not in the public interest.