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Benefits Review Committee 2025

john luke made this Official Information request to Ministry of Social Development

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From: john luke

Dear Ministry of Social Development,

I noted-Benefits Review Committee
https://www.msd.govt.nz/about-msd-and-ou...

May I kindly request the current list of members of the Benefits Review Committee as at 18 December 2025, for the following areas:

Auckland
Bay of Plenty
Canterbury
Central
East Coast
Nelson
Northland
Southern
Taranaki
Waikato
Wellington

For each member, could you please provide:

Full name

Date of appointment

Current expiry date of appointment

A brief biography, if available

Additionally, I note the statement that “nominations are welcome at any time so that a pool of community representatives is available.”
Could you please advise:

How many nominations are currently held in the nomination pool; and

The dates on which those nominations were lodged with your office.

Yours faithfully,

john luke

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From: OIA_Requests (MSD)
Ministry of Social Development

IN-CONFIDENCE

Tçnâ koe John Luke,

Thank you for your email received 18 December 2025, under the Official Information Act 1982. Your request has been forwarded to the appropriate officials at National Office to respond.

The information you have requested may contain the names and contact details of our staff. Please let us know by 24 December 2025 whether you require these names and contact details. We will need to consult our staff before deciding whether we can release this information, and this will take a bit more time. If we do not hear from you, we will assume that you do not require staff names and contact details.
Please note that over the holiday period, there are three weeks that are not classified as working days. In accordance with Section 2 of the Official Information Act 1982, this period is 25 December 2025 to 15 January 2026 (inclusive). As such, OIA requests received on or after 27 November 2025 may take longer than you might expect. For more information on the latest date you can expect a response, please find the OIA Calculator on the Ombudsman website here: http://www.ombudsman.parliament.nz/agenc....
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Official Information Team | Ministerial and Executive Services
Ministry of Social Development

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From: john luke

Dear OIA_Requests (MSD),

Yes I would need the each member's full name, as detailed in my request

Auckland
Bay of Plenty
Canterbury
Central
East Coast
Nelson
Northland
Southern
Taranaki
Waikato
Wellington

Yours sincerely,

john luke

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