Dear Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet,

In light of the recent terrorist attack at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, I am requesting information about the New Zealand government's counterterrorism work programme, particularly after the 2019 Christchurch attacks and the subsequent royal commission of inquiry into those attacks. I will direct other queries to the NZSIS, who can respond for the Combined Threat Assessment Group.

The Royal Commission of Inquiry identified in its 2020 report:
- An "absence of strategic analysis ... across the counter-terrorism effort".
- "Between 2010 and 2018 the National Assessments Bureau published just under 400 formal assessments on terrorism and/or violent extremism."
- "[The Royal Commission team] were told that the National Assessments Bureau focused more on the international terrorism environment and less on the domestic terrorism environment because that was the agreed division of effort with the Combined Threat Assessment Group."
- "The National Assessments Bureau saw terrorism as primarily the responsibility of the Combined Threat Assessment Group. [NAB's] focus was largely international and customer directed. ... The lack of a coordinated national assessments programme meant that the gaps in strategic assessment were less likely to be identified and addressed."
- "Strategic assessments enable the counter-terrorism effort to scan the horizon to look for new and emerging threats. They lift the focus from today’s presenting threat and remind operational agencies of the need to anticipate future threats. It is an important tool for the effective allocation of resources, particularly where capacity or capability are limited. In New Zealand the Combined Threat Assessment Group and the National Assessments Bureau are the two agencies with responsibility for strategic assessments that support the counter-terrorism effort."

My questions are as follows:
1. How many solely-authored or jointly-authored assessments that are primarily focused on the subjects of terrorism and/or violent extremism has the National Assessments Bureau produced in 2025? Please separate the answer into solely-authored and joint-authored tallies.
2. What are the titles of each of those assessments?
3. Given that the National Assessments Bureau published nearly 400 formal assessments on terrorism and/or violent extremism between 2010 and 2018 (a period with particularly low staffing numbers, according to the Inquiry), how many formal assessments on the same topics were published between 2021 and 2025 (inclusive of those years), the period since the Inquiry was published?
4. What, if anything, has been agreed between the National Assessments Bureau and the Combined Threat Assessment Group about the division of effort of terrorism and/or violent extremism topics between the two assessment agencies since the Royal Commission of Inquiry was published?

Yours faithfully,
Sebastian