Would it be possible to get a data feed of the data contained in http://www.dpmc.govt.nz/cabinet/ministers/ministerial-list ? Having an associated data feed of the portfolio information that is linked to from the portfolio names would also be handy. Having this in XML, JSON and/or CSV would be ideal.

cross indexing ministers and their portfolios, initially on http://www.adoptanmp.co.nz/ but I can see this being useful in other scenarios.

removing the requirement to scrape the HTML that presents it.