Budget 2007 Information Release

The Treasury has released documents relating to Budget 2007 in response to and in anticipation of requests for Budget-related information. The documents released here are among the most frequently requested under the Official Information Act.

Note: See Budget 2007 for access to the core Budget documents such as the Budget Speech and the Estimates of Appropriations 2007/08.

Previous Budget information releases were for Budget 2006 and Budget 2005.

Budget-related information in this release has been organised as follows:

• Key Documents comprising:
  • Budget Strategy
  • Senior Ministers' Multilaterals
  • Budget Decisions Cabinet Paper
• Bilateral Briefings and Additional Papers - Includes additional material for Health and Rail Development.
• Cabinet Minutes by Vote
• KiwiSaver
• Business Tax Reform

Deletions to Documents

Some of the content of these documents has been deleted where this is considered necessary to protect the privacy of natural persons, including deceased people; to enable commercial negotiations without prejudice or disadvantage; where the release of information would be likely to unreasonably prejudice the commercial position of the person who supplied or who is the subject of the information; or to protect the confidentiality of advice tendered by Ministers of the Crown and officials.

Where these deletions have been made, the appropriate reason for deletion has been inserted as a reference.