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Purpose The CabGuide website has been developed by the Cabinet Office. It provides authoritative and comprehensive information about Cabinet and Cabinet committee processes and requirements for papers. The CabGuide sets out the processes surrounding...

Key points The government has adjusted some aspects of the processes for selecting Law Commission projects, how the Parliamentary Counsel Office should work with the Law Commission and responding to Law Commission reports on government references....

Introduction 1Cabinet has recently agreed to changes in the Financial Veto procedure. This Circular updates and replaces Cabinet Office Circular CO (98) 15, “Financial Veto Procedure” 15 October 1998. It provides: an outline of the Crown...

Introduction and key points 1The Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) provides for the Minister for the Environment (and, in some instances, the Minister of Conservation) to intervene in matters of national significance under the RMA. Cabinet has...

Summary of key points 1Cabinet has agreed that it will make explicit decisions on whether draft Bills should include a provision stating that the Act will bind the Crown. This decision will be made at the policy development stage. The practical...

Summary of Key Points Cabinet has agreed that the New Zealand Government Locator Service (NZGLS) Metadata Standard will be the official New Zealand Government standard for creating discovery level metadata. The NZGLS standard provides a standardised...

Key Points Cabinet has agreed to standardise procedures for including non-official representatives on official New Zealand delegations to international meetings. Decisions about including non-official representatives in official delegations...

Summary 1 The Remuneration Authority (the Authority) is responsible for setting the remuneration of a number of individuals appointed to statutory bodies and other positions. This circular: 1.1 outlines the role of the Authority in relation to...

Introduction 1 This circular sets out guidance agreed to by Cabinet for Ministers and officials dealing with inside information relating to public issuers, including mixed ownership model companies and other companies in which the Crown has an...

Introduction 1 Cabinet has agreed to legislate (with additional admininistrative enhancements) to require the government to disclose key features of all legislation (with limited exemptions), substantive Supplementary Order Papers (SOP) (where a...

Introduction 1This Circular replaces Cabinet Office Circular CO (06) 6 Whole of Government Directions under the Crown Entities Act 2004. 2A direction to support a whole of government approach under section 107 of the Crown Entities Act 2004 (the...

Introduction 1On 15 February 2016 Cabinet approved new Cabinet Directions for the Conduct of Crown Legal Business. 2The new Directions are annexed to this Circular. Their primary purpose is to identify core Crown legal matters, to set out how those...

Andrew Kibblewhite, Chief Executive of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, and Ian Fletcher, Director of the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB), announced today that Rebecca Kitteridge, the Secretary of the Cabinet, is to be...

The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet has published the October 2012 edition of the Tackling Methamphetamine: Indicators and Progress Report. See Tackling Methamphetamine: Indicators and Progress Report - October 2012.

The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet has released a briefing document that provides background material to the Prime Minister's announcements about GCSB and Oversight Legislation on 15 April. Final legislation remains under consideration and...

The DPMC Statement of Intent 2013-2017 has been published.

A new Ministerial List has been published as at 11 June 2013.

A Performance Improvement Framework (PIF) review of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet has been released. See PIF Review Findings for DPMC.

The Chief Executive Expense Disclosure for the period January-June 2013 has been published.

DPMC releases email correspondence relating to Henry Inquiry.

The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet has published its Annual Report for the year ended 2013 which was tabled in Parliament on 15 October 2013. See Annual Report for the year ended 2013.

The Ministerial List as at 21 October 2013 has just been published.

State Services Minister Jonathan Coleman and Civil Defence Minister Nikki Kaye have announced that Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency Management will be transferred from the Department of Internal Affairs to the Department of Prime Minister and...

The Cabinet Office has proactively released certain information about the management of ministerial conflicts of interest, for the period 1 October 2012 - 30 September 2013.

The Ministerial List as at 28 January 2014 has now been published.

The Schedule of Responsibilities Delegated to Associate Ministers as at 3 March 2014 has just been published.

It is my pleasure to announce that Michael Webster has been appointed to the role of Secretary of the Cabinet and Clerk of the Executive Council. Michael has been the Deputy Secretary of the Cabinet (Constitutional and Honours) in the Cabinet Office,...

A Ministerial List as at 1 May 2014 has been published. NB Now superceded by Ministerial List as at 7 May 2014.

The Ministerial List as at 7 May 2014 has been published.

A new print-friendly Honours nomination form has been published.

Special Honours List 2014: New Zealand Bravery Awards has now published.

See: PIF report of core New Zealand Intelligence Community.

See the 1 July 2013 - 30 June 2014 expenses disclosure at www.dpmc.govt.nz/dpmc/publications/ce-expenses.

The Ministerial List as at 8 October 2014 has been published.