Wednesday, 30 July 2025

Production of documents

Port of Hastings

The Clerk: I table a letter from the Attorney-General dated 28 July 2025 in response to a resolution of the Council on 7 February 2024 on the motion of Mr Davis and further to the government’s initial response on 5 March 2024 relating to the Port of Hastings’ application for offshore wind turbine facilities. The government have identified 37 documents within the scope of the order and make a claim of executive privilege over two documents in part and 12 documents in full. I further table 23 documents in full, two documents in part and schedules of the identified documents. The letter further states that the government has focused its response on documents falling in paragraph (f) of the order, as attempting to respond in full would have unreasonably diverted the resources of the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action.