Hon Andrew Hoggard
Minister for Biosecurity
Minister for Food Safety
Associate Minister of Agriculture (Animal Welfare, Skills)
Associate Minister for the Environment
OIA085
11 March 2025
Anna Wilson
[email address]. nz
Dear Anna,
Thank you for your email of 25 November 2024 requesting information relating to live animal
exports. Your request has been considered under the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA).
You requested the following:
1) All correspondence between your office and MP/ regarding live export of animals.
2) All correspondence between your office and the Prime Minister's office
For avoidance of doubt, "correspondence" refers to aide memoires, briefings, memos,
emails, text, Whats App messages, Signal messages, records of phone calls and so
forth. "Your office" refers to Minister Hoggard, all political staff, and all private secretaries.
Similarly, "the Prime Minister's office" refers to the Prime Minister, political staff and
departmental staff.
The time period of this request is from the formation of the coalition Government to today,
25
November 2024.
On 19 December 2024, I extended the time limit to respond to your request to 13 February
2025. On 13 February 2025 I responded to your request with the first tranche of information
and advised that the second tranche of information would be provided by 10 March 2025.
The following information was provided to you in Tranche One:
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• MO24-0057 -
Livestock Exports by Sea Continuous Improvements
• MO24-0056 -
New Zealand Livestock Exports by Sea -
Identified welfare concerns
• 824-0118 -
Process for reinstating the livestock export by sea
trade
MO24-0165 -
Live Exports Ban Review Project- High Level Targeted Engagement
•
Plan
• 824-0327 -
Livestock Exports Work Programme Update
824-0060 -
Animal Welfare: Livestock Export Review -
Cabinet Paper for Ministerial
•
Consultation
• AM24-0538 -
Meeting about Livestock by Sea Exports
AM24-0579 -
Meeting with He Tatai Ranahua -
Food and Fibre Youth Network to
•
Discuss Youth Perspective on Livestock Exports
MO24-0443 -
BRIEF: Supporting Points for Ministerial Letter on Animal Exports
