Review of proactive publication of Cabinet Papers
Andrew Ecclestone made this Official Information request to Ministry of Justice
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From: Andrew Ecclestone
Dear Ministry of Justice,
In November 2019 the State Services Commission published the Ministry of Justice's September 2019 report on progress with Commitment 7 of the Open Government Partnership National Action Plan. This can be accessed from here:
https://ogp.org.nz/assets/New-Zealand-Pl...
Milestone 3 for this Commitment concerns the proactive publication of Cabinet Papers. In relation to this, on page 3 of this progress report, the Ministry states that:
"In agreeing to the proactive release of Cabinet Papers Cabinet asked for a review of effectiveness and impact to be carried out later this year. Planning for this review is underway"
This is an Official Information Act (OIA) request to be supplied with a copy of all the information held by the Ministry which relates to the scope, timetable, resourcing, terms of reference, and other planning for this review.
Under section 12(3) of the OIA, I ask that my request be treated as urgent. My reason for doing this is to ensure that the Ministry's planning is in the public domain as soon as possible, to enable myself and others interested in the operation and effectiveness of this policy to contribute to the Ministry (and Minister's) consideration of the how the review should proceed, prior to the decision being made. Urgent disclosure of this information will directly contribute to achieving two of the purposes of the OIA set out in section 4 of the Act: enabling people to "more effectively" participate in the making and administration of laws and policies; and promoting the "the accountability of Ministers of the Crown and officials".
Pursuant to section 16 of the OIA, my preferred method of receiving this information is as electronic attachments to an email sent to the address from which the Ministry received this request. Also pursuant to section 16 of the OIA I request that the attachments are provided in the original file format in which they were created, and not as image-only (rasterised) PDF documents, and that they are not watermarked with ‘Released under the OIA’ or similar text, as the law does not require the Ministry to do this.
Under section 19(a)(ii), if the Ministry decides to withhold any of the requested information I have requested, I further request that it provides me with the grounds in support of any reasons for withholding that it has asserted. I also ask that it list each of the public interest factors favouring disclosure that it has considered when making its decision.
I look forward to hearing from the Ministry as soon as reasonably practicable.
Kind regards,
Andrew Ecclestone
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Ministry of Justice
Good afternoon ,
Acknowledging receipt of your Official Information Act request on the
review of proactive publication of Cabinet Papers.
We have passed this on to the relevant business unit for response.
You can expect a response on or before 12^th February 2020.
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Dear Ecclestone
I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your OIA request below.
We will endeavour to respond to your request as soon as possible and in
any event no later than are 20 working days after the day your request was
received. If we are unable to respond to your request by then, we will
notify you of an extension of that timeframe.
Please note, the three weeks between Christmas Day and 15 January the
following year don't count as working days. This means that any OIA
request submitted from now may take a bit longer.
If you have any queries, please feel free to contact Ministerial Services
at [1][email address] . If any additional factors come to
light which are relevant to your request, please do not hesitate to
contact us so that these can be taken into account.
Our letter notifying you of our decision on your request will confirm if
we intend to publish the letter (with your personal details removed) and
any related documents on the State Services Commission’s website.
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SSC Enquiries
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Dear Mr Ecclestone
Please find attached our response to your OIA below.
Kind regards
SSC Enquiries
email: [1][email address]
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From: SSC Enquiries <[email address]>
Sent: Wednesday, 15 January 2020 11:46 AM
To: Andrew Ecclestone <[FOI #11989 email]>
Cc: SSC Enquiries <[email address]>
Subject: RE: Official Information request - Review of proactive
publication of Cabinet Papers
Dear Ecclestone
I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your OIA request below.
We will endeavour to respond to your request as soon as possible and in
any event no later than are 20 working days after the day your request was
received. If we are unable to respond to your request by then, we will
notify you of an extension of that timeframe.
Please note, the three weeks between Christmas Day and 15 January the
following year don't count as working days. This means that any OIA
request submitted from now may take a bit longer.
If you have any queries, please feel free to contact Ministerial Services
at [8][email address] . If any additional factors come to
light which are relevant to your request, please do not hesitate to
contact us so that these can be taken into account.
Our letter notifying you of our decision on your request will confirm if
we intend to publish the letter (with your personal details removed) and
any related documents on the State Services Commission’s website.
Kind regards,
SSC Enquiries
email: [9][email address]
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It's worth noting that the Ministry of Justice failed to comply with the part of section 14 of the OIA that requires them to inform the requester when they transfer a request to a different agency.
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