Correspondence regarding telecommunications regulatory review
Sam Brown made this Official Information request to Ministry for the Environment
Currently waiting for a response from Ministry for the Environment, they must respond promptly and normally no later than (details and exceptions).
From: Sam Brown
Dear Ministry for the Environment,
Under the Official Information Act 1982, I request the following information regarding the telecommunications regulatory review:
All correspondence, submissions, and representations received from telecommunications companies, industry bodies, and related stakeholders between 1st Jan 2025 and present, including:
- Formal written submissions
- Emails and letters to the Minister, Ministry officials, or ministerial staff
- Records of meetings, briefings, or phone calls with industry representatives
- Any draft policy language or regulatory text proposed by external parties
For each piece of correspondence, please include:
- Date received
- Submitting organisation/individual
- Summary of key requests or positions advocated
- Whether the submitter requested specific regulatory changes, exemptions, or policy positions
Any ministerial briefings analysing stakeholder positions or recommending responses to industry representations
I understand some material may have been proactively released; please exclude documents already publicly available and provide links to those releases instead.
I do not require:
- Personal contact details of individual staff members
- Information subject to legal professional privilege
- Cabinet papers (which I understand are subject to separate processes)
Yours faithfully,
Sam Brown
From: Sam Brown
Dear Ministry for the Environment,
This request was submitted to MfE in error. Please transfer to the Ministry for Regulation.
Yours faithfully,
Sam Brown
Things to do with this request
- Add an annotation (to help the requester or others)
- Download a zip file of all correspondence (note: this contains the same information already available above).

