133 Molesworth
Street
PO Box 5013
Wellington 6140
New Zealand
T+64 4 496 2000
James Fuller
By email:
[FYI request #12709 email]
Ref:
H202002584
Dear Mr Fuller
Transfer of request for information to Ministry of Justice
Thank you for your request to The Ministry of Health (the Ministry) received on 26 April 2020
under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) for:
“I am requesting information in the number of deaths due to Pneumonia in the years
2018 and 2019. Monthly statistics are preferred, if they are available.”
On 8 May 2020 you agreed to refine your request to:
“The number of coronial cases where a person has died of pneumonia to cover the
period 1 January 2018 – 30 April 2020. Also include coronial cases where the patient
was hospitalised with pneumonia.”
As discussed in the refinement email you received on 7 May 2020, the Ministry does not
hold the information you have requested. However, I have been advised that the information
you have requested is more aligned with the functions of the Ministry of Justice.
As a result, I have decided to transfer your request to the Ministry of Justice under section
14 of the Act. You can expect a response from the Ministry of Justice in due course.
You have the right, under section 28 of the Act, to ask the Ombudsman to review my
decision to transfer your request for information.
Yours sincerely
Zoe Royden
Manager (Acting) OIA Services
Office of the Director-General