Key Documents - Budget 2025 Information Release

The documents on this page relating to Budget 2025 have been released in response to, and in anticipation of, requests for Budget-related information from the public.

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See Information Withheld from Documents on the Budget 2025 Information Release home page, or in the Budget 2025 Information Release coversheet below, for an explanation of why deletions may have been made to some of these documents.

Budget 2025 Information Release Coversheet (PDF 184.86KB)

Doc. Date	Report number	Title
21 Aug 2024	REP/24/8/776	Aide-memoire: Budget 2025 Strategy Appendices One and Two Powerpoint A3s
6 Sep 2024	REP/24/9/825	Report: Budget 2025 – cost pressures and potential savings
30 Sept 2024	REP/24/9/906	Report: Draft MSD Performance Plan and Policy Savings
1 Nov 2024	REP/24/10/982	Report: Budget 2025 – Performance Plan and Savings Overview Appendix Three – Draft Performance Submission Letter Appendix Four – Initial Budget 2025 Savings Overview
1 Nov 2024	REP/24/10/983	Report: Budget 2025 – potential policy cost savings options in the benefit system Appendix One – Options analysis for policy cost savings options and assumptions and caveats Appendix Two – Further analysis
29 Nov 2024	REP/24/11/1092	Report: Budget 2025 – proposed timeline and time-limited funding
29 Nov 2024	REP/24/11/1089	Aide-memoire: Budget 2025 update and bilateral advice
6 Dec 2024	REP/24/12/1129	Report: Budget 2025 – draft Ministerial submission letter and updated advice Appendix Two – Summary of the Budget 2025 and 2026 invited initiatives Appendix Three – Vote Social Development Multi-year savings strategy Final December submission letter to MOF
17 Jan 2025	REP/25/1/004	Report: Budget 2025 – Process timeline and update Appendix Two – Budget 2025 Social Development Ministerial Submission Letter
28 Jan 2025	REP/25/1/016	Aide-memoire: Advice to support your meeting with Minister Seymour for the Baseline Savings Programme Appendix One – Baseline Savings Programme A3 Appendix Two – Overview of Vote Social Development Appendix Three – Further details of proposed savings options Appendix Six – Overview of policy changes from 2017-2023
30 Jan 2025	-	Letter: Letter to Minister Seymour from Hon Louise Upston
13 Feb 2025	REP/25/2/079	Report: Budget 2025 – Talking points for Ministerial engagement
21 Feb 2025	REP/25/2/122	Report: Budget 2025 update – preparing for March bilaterals Annex 2 – Proposed agenda for discussion at pre-meet Annex 3 – Proposed sequencing and phasing of initiatives
26 Feb 2025	REP/25/2/138	Aide-memoire: Budget 2025 – Ministerial engagement regarding Child and Youth proposal
28 Feb 2025	REP/25/2/105	Aide-memoire: Budget 2025 – Social Development and Employment bilateral Appendix Four – Back pocket optimal savings package
19 Mar 2025	REP/25/3/187	Report: Budget 2025 – Draft submission letter for Income Charging Parts One and Two Appendix One – Draft submission letter for Income Charging Parts One and Two
25 Mar 2025	REP/25/3/206	Aide-memoire: Advice to support your meeting with Hon James Meager to discuss Budget 2025
21 May 2025	-	Budget 2025 on a page
21 May 2025	-	Time-limited funding
18 June 2025	-	MSD Performance Plan

Explanatory Notes

Note that individual documents are only included once in this proactive release. For example, the Budget 2025 on a page A3 is not attached to REP/25/1/016 or REP/25/2/079 – in the table above (21 May 2025).
For REP/24/10/982 – Appendix Three – Draft Performance Submission Letter – this document notes that “the success of the Emergency Housing initiative means MSD will already be returning $368.497m of savings in the 2024/25 year”. We have subsequently identified that this figure did not accurately reflect the level of additional savings, and the correct figure of $230.041m for 2024/25 was accurately reflected in Budget 2025 decisions and Estimates.
For the MSD Performance Plan document (dated 18 June 2025):
- This document contains some updated financials to reflect Budget 2025 decisions. Not all areas of the document have been updated.
- As of August 2024, Emergency Housing Grants are no longer administered under Special Needs Grants legislation.
- The date for the establishment of the Independent Children’s Monitor moved from early July to 1 August 2025.

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