Budget 2024 Information Release

These documents have been released by the Ministry of Health on behalf of the Minister of Health, Hon Dr Shane Reti, as part of the Budget 2024 process.

Where information in these documents has not been released, the relevant Official Information Act 1982 grounds for withholding have been noted.

Further Budget 2024 documents can be viewed on the Treasury's Budget 2024 site

Bundles 1a and 1b - Key Overarching Budget Advice

Bundle 2 - Advice on Specific Initiatives

Some parts of this information release would not be appropriate to release and, if requested, would be withheld under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act). Where this is the case, the relevant sections of the Act that would apply have been identified. Where information has been withheld, no public interest has been identified that would outweigh the reasons for withholding it.

Key to redaction codes:

• S 6(a) where its release would likely prejudice the international relations of the Government of New Zealand.
• S 9(2)(a) to protect the privacy of natural persons.
• S 9(2)(f)(iv) to maintain the constitutional conventions that protect the confidentiality of advice tendered by Ministers and officials.
• S 9(2)(g)(i) to maintain the effective conduct of public affairs through the free and frank expression of opinions by or between or to Ministers and officers and employees of any public service agency.
• S 9(2)(h) to maintain legal professional privilege.
• S 9(2)(j) to enable a Minister or any public service agency to carry on negotiations without prejudice or disadvantage (including commercial and industrial negotiations).