How to have your say

Making a submission

The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) seeks written submissions on the issues raised in this document. We are interested in hearing from any interested persons, including individuals, businesses, and community organisations. Your submission may respond to any or all of the questions posed to submitters.

Submissions close on Tuesday, 10 December at 5pm.

You can make a submission using the submission form template provided.

You can email your submission as a Microsoft Word document to CommunicationsPolicy@mbie.govt.nz or you can post it to:

Communications Policy Team
Building, Resources and Markets
Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment
PO Box 1473
Wellington 6140

Include your contact details in the template form when providing your submission.

Please direct any questions that you have in relation to this consultation to CommunicationsPolicy@mbie.govt.nz 

Where possible, please include evidence to support your views, such as examples or references to independent research or facts and figures.

Use and release of information

The information provided in submissions will be used to inform MBIE’s analysis and will inform advice to Ministers. MBIE intends to upload copies and/or summaries of submissions received to MBIE’s website at www.mbie.govt.nz. MBIE will consider you to have consented to uploading by making a submission, unless you specify otherwise in your submission. If your submission contains confidential information or you otherwise wish us not to publish, please:

• indicate this on the front of the submission template, with any confidential information clearly marked within the text, and
• provide a separate version excluding the relevant information for publication on our website.

Submissions remain subject to request under the Official Information Act 1982. Please set out clearly in the cover letter or email accompanying your submission if you have any objection to the release of any information in the submission, and in particular, which parts you consider should be withheld, together with the reasons for withholding the information. MBIE will take such objections into account and will consult with submitters when responding to requests under the Official Information Act 1982.

The Privacy Act 2020 establishes certain principles with respect to the collection, use and disclosure of information about individuals by various agencies, including MBIE. Any personal information you supply to MBIE in the course of making a submission will only be used for the purpose of assisting in the development of policy advice in relation to this consultation. Please clearly indicate in the cover letter or email accompanying your submission if you do not wish your name, or any other personal information, to be included in any summary of submissions that MBIE may publish.

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