9 August 2019
Alex Harris
[FYI request #10722 email]
Tēnā koe e Alex
I refer to your request dated 11 July 2019, pursuant to the Official Information Act 1982,
seeking:
“The cabinet paper on the vehicle fuel efficiency standard and feebate scheme included a list
(at paragraph 34) of measures considered and rejected. Included in this list was "A legislated
end date for the import of fossil-fuelled vehicles." I would like to request the following
information under the OIA:
* All advice (including, but not limited to cabinet papers, briefings, aide memoires, and
recollections of oral briefings not yet reduced to writing) on the proposal for a legislated end
date for the import of fossil-fuelled vehicles.”
The following documents fall within the scope of your request and are enclosed:
Document 1: Excerpts from the:
o briefing: Moving to a low emissions light vehicle fleet: draft discussion
document (1 March 2018), and
o draft Consultation document: Moving to a low emissions light vehicle fleet
(1 March 2018).
Document 2: Draft Cabinet paper: Moving to a Low Emissions Light Vehicle Fleet:
Proposed Direction (April 2018)
Document 3: Excerpt from Draft – Initial cross-portfolio low emissions vehicle work
programme for Ministers’ discussion (13 August 2018)
Document 4: The Final Report from the New Zealand Productivity Commission’s Low
Emissions Economy Inquiry (11 September 2018)
Document 5: Legislated Ban on Importing Light Vehicles Powered by Fossil Fuels
Preliminary Cost Benefit Analysis (October 2018).
Documents 1, 2 and 3 are being released as excerpts of relevant information from the original
documents, as only a small proportion of the content falls within the scope of your request.
Please note that the draft consultation document (document 1) and draft Cabinet paper
(document 2) did not proceed to Cabinet. The version of the draft initial cross-portfolio low
emissions vehicle work programme provided to you (document 3) did not proceed through
Cabinet, as it was withdrawn.
Certain information is being withheld in reliance on section 9(2)(a) of the Act that relates to
protecting the privacy of natural persons.
In regard to the information that has been withheld under section 9 of the Act, I am of the
opinion that there are no countervailing considerations that make it desirable, in the public
interest, to make the information available.
You have the right under section 28(3) of the Official Information Act to make a complaint
about the withholding of information to the Ombudsman, whose address for contact
purposes is [email address].
Nāku noa, nā
Hon Julie-Anne Genter
Associate Minister of Transport