8 December 2023
John Luke
[FYI request #24639 email]
Ref: OIA-2023/24-0290
Dear John Luke
Official Information Act request seeking a list of current Ministerial Advisory
Committees
Thank you for your Of icial Information Act 1982 (the Act) request received on 13 November
2023. You requested:
a list of all the current Ministerial Advisory Committees
DPMC does not hold a central list of all Ministerial Advisory Committees (MACs). Not all
MACs are established following consideration by Cabinet. Accordingly, I refuse your request
under section 18(g) of the Act, on the grounds that that the information requested is not held
by the department, and I have no reason for believing that it is held by, or connected more
closely with the functions of, another department.
While we are unable to provide a list of all the current Ministerial Advisory Commit ees, we
have collated information that we do hold that is in scope of your request. Please see the
below table which lists groups with the words “Ministerial Advisory” in their title that have
been considered by Cabinet since August 2015, where that group has not subsequently
been disestablished according to publicly available information. (Please note that there may
be some additional groups that are in substance a Ministerial Advisory Commit ee but do not
have the words “Ministerial Advisory” in the title or that were established prior to August
2015. In those cases, they wil not have been identified by our search.)
Name
Web reference
Oranga Tamariki Ministerial
Ministerial Advisory Board | Oranga Tamariki — Ministry
Advisory Board
for Children
Ministerial Strategic Advisory
Ministerial Strategic Advisory Group on Trade:
Group on Trade
Appointments CAB-23-MIN-0412 | New Zealand Ministry
of Foreign Af airs and Trade (mfat.govt.nz)
Biosecurity Ministerial Advisory
Biosecurity Ministerial Advisory Committee | NZ
Committee
Government (mpi.govt.nz)
Interim Ministerial Advisory
Experts appointed to guide Māori-led climate action |
Committee,
Māori
Climate
Beehive.govt.nz
Platform
Tangata Whenua Ministerial
Tangata Whenua Ministerial Advisory Group | Te Puna
Advisory Group for the
Aonui
Elimination of Family and
Sexual Violence
Ministerial Advisory Group to
Ministerial Advisory Group reviewing school staffing –
Review School Staff Settings
Education in New Zealand
Defence Policy Review
Ministerial Advisory Panel | Ministry of Defence Website
Ministerial Advisory Panel
4830035
Executive Wing, Parliament Buildings, Wellington, New Zealand 6011
64 4 817 9698 www.dpmc.govt.nz
Kāpuia (Ministerial Advisory
Kāpuia – Ministerial Advisory Group | Department of the
Group on the Government
Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC)
Response to the Royal
Commission of Inquiry into the
Terrorist At ack on Christchurch
Mosques)
Ministerial Advisory Committee
Statutory entities, boards and commit ees | Ministry of
on Health Reform
Health NZ
Implementation
You may also be interested in the process for establishing MACs which you can find here:
Establishing a ministerial advisory committee - Te Kawa Mataaho Public Service
Commission.
You have the right to ask the Ombudsman to investigate and review my decision under
section 28(3) of the Act.
This response wil be published on the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet’s
website during our regular publication cycle. Typically, information is released monthly, or as
otherwise determined. Your personal information including name and contact details will be
removed for publication.
Yours sincerely
Rachel Hayward
Secretary of Cabinet/Clerk of the Executive Council
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