Request for Budget 2025 information

Details of the request

Under the OIA, can I please have copies of all aide memoirs, briefings, memos, notes, reports, or any other advice, sent to the Minister or their offices regarding funding decisions for your department/ministry and votes you are responsible for, in the context of Budget 2025. This includes all Budget 2025 bids for funding, impacts of funding decisions in Budget 25, and impacts of not receiving funding in Budget 2025. This can be limited to 1 November 2024 to today.

Under the OIA, I also request copies of all aide memoirs, briefings, memos, notes, reports, or any other advice, sent to your executive leadership team regarding funding decisions for departments and votes you are responsible for, in the context of Budget 2025. This includes all Budget 2025 bids for funding, impacts of funding decisions in Budget 25, and impacts of not receiving funding in Budget 2025. This can be limited to 1 November 2024 to today.

If and where a document that falls under scope of this request cannot be released, please supply a summary of that document’s contents.

If and where any document falls under the scope of this request, please release it in full, including sections which might otherwise be considered out of scope.

Response Documents

1. OIAD-1611 Response (PDF 908KB)
2. B25 focus for 9 December 2024 (PDF 200KB)
3. B25 Grants and Funds Summary Template - MfE (PDF 130KB)
4. Budget 25 Joint Minister Meeting Pack (331KB)
5. Budget 25 narrative (PDF 216KB)
6. Context pack - for Minister Discussions (PDF 330KB)
7. Context pack - Te Pūrengi B25 Workshop 29 November 2024 (PDF 695KB)
8. High level talking points - RM Budget Bid discussion 12 March 2025 (PDF 104KB)
9. Letter from Hon David Seymour to Hon Simon Watts (PDF 84KB)
10. Letter from Hon Penny Simmonds to Hon Nicola Willis (PDF 119KB)
11. Letter from Hon Simon Watts to Hon David Seymour 21 February 2025 (PDF 129KB)
12. Letter from Hon Simon Watts to Hon David Seymour 9 April 2025 (PDF 77KB)
13. Letter from Hon Simon Watts to Hon Nicola Willis (PDF 189KB)
14. Memo: Risks and trade-offs of further scaling levy departmental increases (PDF 202KB)
15. MfE B25 Growth Package - Non-spending initiatives (PDF 280KB)
16. MfE Grants and Funds - B25 Savings Template - Climate (PDF 481KB)
17. MfE Grants and Funds - B25 Savings Template - Environment funds (PDF 592KB)
18. Minister Bishop Budget notes for 16 December 2024 (PDF 573KB)
19. Minister Simmonds Budget notes for 10 December 2024 (PDF 384KB)
20. Notes for Ministers: Budget 2025 RM Funding Bid Discussions (PDF 166KB)
21. Notes on process forward for Min Seymour Climate baseline savings work (PDF 85KB)
22. Resourcing RM3 through to 30 June 2026 (PDF 294KB)
23. Savings and reprioritisation advice for Te Pūrengi (PDF 512KB)
24. Savings scenarios for Te Pūrengi feedback 3 December 2024 (PDF 113KB)
25. Slidepack for Te Pūrengi discussion 3 December 2024 (PDF 420KB)
26. Strategy-led Business Planning 2025 - 2026 (PDF 858KB)
27. Summary of B25 Te Pūrengi Workshop 29 November 2024 (PDF 141 KB)
28. Waste levy allocation via B25 - context and choices (PDF 337KB)
29. Waste Levy B25 Savings Template (PDF 510KB)
30. Workshop pack - Te Pūrengi B25 Workshop 29 November 2024 (PDF 724KB)
31. Budget 25 briefings
    1. BRF-5672 – Briefing: Budget 25 initial advice - 6 December 2024
    2. BRF-5717 – Briefing: Final decisions on the Budget 25 package - 13 December 2024
    3. BRF-5719 – Briefing: Vote Environment Budget 25 letter to the Minister of Finance - 18 December 2024
    4. BRF-5779 – Briefing: Climate change portfolio fiscal strategy - 24 January 2025
    5. BRF-5797 – Briefing: Potential options for NZGIF funds - 03 February 2025
    6. BRF-5834 – Briefing: Estimates documents for final approval - 10 April 2025
    7. BRF-5860 – Briefing: Emissions trading scheme exemption for Waitaki District Council - 13 February 2025
    8. BRF-5870 – Briefing: Budget 25 – climate portfolio - 14 February 2025
    9. BRF-5893 – Briefing: Baseline Savings Exercise – draft response - 20 February 2025
    10. BRF-5910 – Briefing: Establishing an Environmental Investment Fund - 25 February 2025
    11. BRF-5945 – Briefing: Estimates documents for final approval - 10 April 2025
    12. BRF-5950 – Aide memoire: Vote environment performance plan - 19 March 2025
    13. BRF-5971 – Briefing: Resource management implementation funding - 13 March 2025
    14. BRF-6244 Waste Minimisation Fund (WMF) investment priorities - 22 May 2025
    15. CAB-554 – Budget 2025: Waste Levy allocation and consolidating environmental funds
32. Budget 2025 - Waste levy allocation decisions and consolidating environmental funds