Publication date:
23 July 2024
Last updated:
These documents have been proactively released by the Ministry of Health on behalf of the Associate Minister of Health, Hon Casey Costello.
Title of Cabinet papers:
- Reducing excise duty from heated tobacco products (May 2024)
- Reducing excise duty from heated tobacco products (June 2024)
Titles of Cabinet minutes:
- Heated Tobacco Products: Update (CAB-24-MIN-0172)
- Reducing Excise Duty from Heated Tobacco Products (CAB-24-MIN-0204)
Titles of briefings and aides mémoire:
- Smokefree 2025: progressing Coalition Agreement commitments (H2024035870)
- Next iteration of Cabinet paper – Smokefree 2025: progressing Coalition Agreement commitments (H2024036601)
- Cover brief for draft Cabinet paper – Smokefree 2025: progressing Coalition Agreement commitments (H2024036577)
- Cabinet paper for departmental consultation and draft letter to Attorney-General (H2024036688)
- Departmental feedback on Cabinet paper Smokefree 2025: progressing Coalition Agreement commitments (H2024036808)
- Updated Cabinet paper (H2024036944)
- Updated Cabinet paper for lodging (H2024036996)
- Budget 2024 initiative: agreement to submit heated tobacco template (H2024038305)
- Budget 2024: heated tobacco products initiative (H2024040761)
- Reducing excise duty from heated tobacco products (H2024040996)
- Updated Cabinet paper: reducing excise duty from heated tobacco products (H2024041136)
- Talking points: Reducing excise duty from heated tobacco products Cabinet paper (H2024041690)
- Reducing excise duty from heated tobacco products Cabinet paper (H2024042509)
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 code/s:
- 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.