Ministerial Travel 28 May to 2 June 2025

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The pack comprises the following documents:

• the May 2025 Cabinet paper and associated minute of decision Proposed Overseas Travel: Hon Judith Collins KC – May 2025 [CAB-25-SUB-0156 and CAB-25-MIN-0156].

• the July 2025 Cabinet paper and associated minute of decision Report on Overseas Travel: Hon Judith Collins KC – May/June 2025 [CAB-25-SUB-0230 and CAB-25-MIN-0230].

Information is withheld where making it available would be likely to prejudice:

• the security or defence of New Zealand or the international relations of the Government of New Zealand [section 6(a)].

• the entrusting of information to the Government of New Zealand on a basis of confidence by the government of any other country [section 6(b)(i)].

Information is also withheld in order to maintain:

• the effective conduct of public affairs through the free and frank expression of opinions by or between or to Ministers of the Crown or members of an organisation or officers and employees of any department or organisation in the course of their duty [section 9(2)(g)(i)].

Where information is withheld under section 9(2) of the Act it is not considered that the public interest outweighs the need to protect it.