Papers
Content
What issues need to be submitted to Cabinet?
The required format for standard papers, and for:
- appointment papers
- papers seeking approval for the submission of items to Executive Council
- papers seeking priority for a bill on the Legislation Programme
- papers seeking to introduce a bill
- papers seeking approval for treaty actions
- papers proposing government responses to Law Commission reports
Regulatory impact analysis
- summary of the regulatory impact analysis requirements
- regulatory impact statement requirements
- exemptions from the regulatory impact statement requirements
- the content for the Regulatory Impact Analysis section in Cabinet papers
- the criteria for determining if a RIS is inadequate
- regulatory analysis requirements for discussion documents
- the 'significance criteria' used to determine which regulatory proposals require assessment by the Regulatory Impact Analysis Team in Treasury
- publication of regulatory impact statements
Financial implications and recommendations
- summary
- papers with financial recommendations
- drafting financial recommendations
- papers seeking changes to baselines
What is the process for releasing discussion documents?
Submissions to select committees and government responses to reports:
- submissions to select committees
- government responses to reports by select committees (ie, on petitions or inquiries)
- government responses to Law Commission reports
Ministers' involvement with papers:
Submitting papers
What is the deadline for papers?
- delivery to Ministers' offices
- the distribution of papers using couriers
- the waybill
- collecting papers
- the last box message
- how to read distribution lists
What if I haven't received an agenda, paper or minute?
Reports due to Cabinet committees:
- introduction
- setting reporting dates
- seeking an extension to a due date
- reports with no due date specified
- reports that are no longer required
