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17 June 2025
Mohammed Khan
[FYI request #31018 email]
Official information request
Our ref: R00966
Tēnā koe Mohammed
Thank you for your Official Information Act 1982 (OIA) request, which the Ministry for
Regulation (Ministry) received on 19 May 2025. You requested:
According to the document: https://www.regulation.govt.nz/assets/Publication-
Documents/Information-Release-Summary-of-Submissions-for-proposed-
Regulatory-Standards-Bill.pdf
the Ministry under friend of Timothy Jago David Seymour chose to disregard any
submission under 10,000 characters or not made on behalf of an organisation,
iwi or hapū.
Please provide communications/documentation regarding how this criteria was
arrived at (for example, discussions on how organizations were less opposed to
the bill than individuals as determined by the LLM results, causing their
inclusion, or the emails where it was noted it would be politically inconvenient to
ignore Maori groups).
This should not be provided as a summary.
The Ministry did not disregard or ignore any submission on the discussion document,
“
Have your say on the proposed Regulatory Standards Bill.” All submissions, regardless
of length or category of submitter, were analysed as part of the quantitative analysis
process undertaken by the Ministry.
Appendix 1 in pages 42-44 of the publishe
d Summary of Submissions1 explains the
methodology, which the Ministry used in analysing all 22,281 submissions.
Submissions were analysed by staff members at the Ministry or the specialist
consultancy the Ministry engaged. All emails received in the consultation inbox were
read by Ministry staff and assessed to identify submissions on the discussion
1 https://www.regulation.govt.nz/about-us/our-publications/information-release-summary-of-submissions-for-
proposed-regulatory-standards-bill/
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document, queries on the submissions process, Official Information Act requests, and
other miscellaneous queries/requests. All submissions received through the online
form (Citizen Space) were assessed for the characteristics above.
In addition to this, the Ministry undertook qualitative analysis on a sample of the
submissions to summarise the main reasons for support and opposition to the
proposed Bill, and feedback on specific proposals (the results of which are outlined in
Sections 2 and 3 of the Summary of Submissions). This sample included all
submissions made on behalf of organisations, iwi or hapū, and any other submission
with over 10,000 characters. This involved the manual analysis of approximately 4.1 per
cent of all submissions, which was 34.4 per cent of all text received. The sample was
selected on the basis that submissions included were likely to have more detailed
feedback on the components of the proposed Bill to inform the Ministry’s qualitative
analysis.
The Ministry then cross-checked findings of the quantitative and qualitative assessment
as part of its quality assurance processes. Overall, the Ministry is confident that this
analysis captured the full range of views given by submitters.
Alongside qualitative analysis on the sample of submissions indicated above, the
Ministry additionally read hundreds of submissions that provided detailed feedback on
aspects of the Bill, including from academics and legal experts.
Note the information explained above is also publicly available in the section of our
website:
Submissions on the Regulatory Standards Bill discussion document.2
Additional information publicly available
The Ministry has proactively released a significant amount of information on the
proposed Bill. You will find copies of briefing material and other key advice papers about
the Bill in the section of our website:
Our publications | Ministry for Regulation3. We have
listed the titles and reference numbers of these papers in the attached
Appendix A to
assist you in searching for information that may be of interest to you. In addition, we are
regularly updating the progress of our work on the Bill in the section of our website
: Our
work | The Regulatory Standards Bill.4
We are preparing to proactively release further material about the Bill and these will be
available in the publications page of our website as soon as they are approved for release.
2 https://www.regulation.govt.nz/our-work/regulatory-standards-bill/submissions-on-the-discussion-document/
3 https://www.regulation.govt.nz/about-us/our-publications/
4 https://www.regulation.govt.nz/our-work/regulatory-standards-bill/
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Right of review
If you wish to discuss this decision with us, please contac
t [Ministry for Regulation request email].
You have the right to seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman of this
decision. Information about how to make a complaint is available at
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or freephone 0800 802 602.
Please note that we may publish this response (with your details removed) on the
Ministry for Regulation website.
Ngā mihi
Paula Knaap
Deputy Chief Executive, Organisational Enablement
Ministry for Regulation
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APPENDIX A
Table 1: Proactively Released - November/December 2024
Publication link in webs
ite https://www.regulation.govt.nz/about-us/our-publications
Date
Reference
Title
1. 15/12/2023
T2023/2064
Regulatory Standards Bill – Initial Advice and Options
2. 23/01/2024
nil
Regulatory Standards Bill: Slides for Meeting with Minister for
Regulation on 23rd January
3. 05/02/2023
T2024/171
Regulatory Standards Bill – 100 Day Cabinet report-back
4. 19/02/2024
T2024/375
Agency consultation on draft Regulatory Standards Bill Cabinet
paper
5. Undated
nil
Cabinet Paper: Improving the Quality of New Zealand’s Regulation:
Report Back on a New Regulatory Standards Bill
6. 27/02/2024
EXP-24-MIN-
Cabinet Expenditure and Regulatory Review Committee Minute of
0003
Decision - Improving the Quality of New Zealand's Regulation:
Report Back on a New Regulatory Standards Bill
7. 22/03/2024
T2024/763
Regulatory Standards Bill: Possible amendments
8. 12/04/2024
T2024/1020
Current State Regulatory Processes
9. 03/05/2024
2024-016
Regulatory Standards Bill: Possible approaches to embedding
regulatory responsibility principles
10. 17/05/2024
2024-015
Possible approaches to public recourse mechanisms
11. 17/05/2024
2024-026
Current information gathering and inquiry powers
12. 24/05/2024
2024-041
Statutory powers for Ministry for Regulation reviews
13. 14/06/2024
2024-038
Options for a taking forward a Regulatory Standards Bill
14. 05/07/2024
2024-063
Further advice on a preferred option for a Regulatory Standards
Bill
15. 05/07/2024
2024-060
Decision-making and implementation mechanisms for regulatory
reviews
16. 26/07/2024
MFR2024-077
Alternative approach to providing for regulatory responsibility
principles
17. 06/08/2024
MFR2024-092
Progressing the Regulatory Standards Bill
18. 14/08/2024
MFR2024-095
Proposed revisions to the principles in the 2021 Regulatory
Standards Bill
19. 23/08/2024
MFR2024-078
Regulatory Standards Bill: Regulatory Reviews Statutory
Framework
20. 13/09/2024
MFR2024-064
Agreeing to a consultation approach on the Regulatory Standards
Bill
21. 13/09/2024
2024-103
The Regulatory Standards Bill and the Treaty of Waitangi
22. 13/09/2024
MFR2024-104
Further advice on the components of a Regulatory Standards Bill
23. 11/10/2024
MFR2024-130
Draft Regulatory Standards Bill Cabinet paper and discussion
document for Ministerial consultation
24. 25/10/2024
MFR2024-145
Feedback from departmental consultation on the draft Regulatory
Standards Bill Cabinet paper and discussion document
25. Undated
nil
Information Release: Cabinet Paper CAB-24-SUB-0437 Approval to
consult on a proposed approach to the Regulatory Standards Bill
Undated
nil
[Cabinet paper]
Approval to Consult on a proposed approach to the Regulatory
Standards Bill
10/2024
nil
[Discussion document]
Have your say on the proposed Regulatory Standards Bill
30/10/2024
nil
Interim Regulatory Impact Statement: Legislating to improve
transparency of the quality of regulation
Undated
nil
Annex 4: Preliminary Treaty Impact Analysis for the proposed
Regulatory Standards Bill
Undated
nil
Annex 5: Summary of substantive agency feedback
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Table 2: Proactively Released - 7 May 2025
Publication link in website:
Information Release - Policy Approvals for Progressing a
Regulatory Standards Bill May 2025 | Ministry for Regulation
Date
Reference
Title
26. Undated
nil
[Cabinet paper]
Policy Approvals for progressing a Regulatory Standards Bill
27. 05/2025
[Annex 1]
Summary of Submissions: Consultation on the proposed
Regulatory Standards Bill
28. 26/03/2025 [Annex 2]
Regulatory Impact Statement: proposed Regulatory
Standards Bill
29. Undated
[Annex 3]
Annex Three: The Treaty of Waitangi/te Tiriti o Waitangi
Impact Analysis for the Regulatory Standards Bill
30. Undated
[Annex 5]
Annex Five: Summary of departmental feedback
31. 05/05/2025 CAB-25-MIN- Cabinet Minute of Decision - Progressing a Regulatory
0148
Standards Bill: Policy Approvals
Table 3: Proactively Released - 20 May 2025
Publication link in website:
https://www.regulation.govt.nz/about-us/our-
publications/regulatory-standards-bill-approval-for-introduction/
Date
Reference
Title
32. Undated
nil
[Cabinet paper]
Regulatory Standards Bill: Approval for Introduction
33. 19/05/2025 CAB-25-MIN-
Cabinet Minute of Decision - Regulatory Standards Bill:
0165
Approval for Introduction
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