133 Molesworth Street
PO Box 5013
Wellington 6140
New Zealand
T+64 4 496 2000
Matthew Hooton
By email: [FYI request #13617 email]
Ref:
H202006651
Dear Matthew Hooton
Response to your request for official information
Thank you for your request under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) on 30 August 2020
for:
“I request all advice provided by your Ministry to other government departments and/or
ministers in August 2020 on the merits or otherwise of testing asymptomatic people in
South and West Auckland for Covid-19”
Please be advised that no information has been identified within scope of your request. As
such, your request is refused under section 18(e) of the Act, as the information requested does
not exist.
You may be interested in testing information which can be found on the Ministry’s website here:
https:/ www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-
19-health-advice-public/assessment-and-testing-covid-19
Under section 28(3) of the Act you have the right to ask the Ombudsman to review my decision
to refuse your request.
Yours sincerely
Nick Allan
Manager, OIA Services
Office of the Director-General