This is an HTML version of an attachment to the Official Information request 'Establishing a ministerial advisory committee'.


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 
 
 
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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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