This is an HTML version of an attachment to the Official Information request 'Covid-19 testing of asymptomatic people in South & West Auckland'.





 
 
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