31 August 2022
Sebastian
By email:
[FYI request #15138 email]
Ref: OIA-2020/21-0511
Dear Sebastian
Official Information Act request: release of additional information from the 2021
Counter-Terrorism Work Programme
I refer to your request made under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act), received
by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC) on 12 April 2021. You
requested:
“…copies of these five documents underlying the Royal Commission report:
1. The 2013 National Assessments Bureau assessment titled "Far Right Rising: A
Dangerous Myth"
2. The August 2018 draft National Risk Register; failing that, I request a copy of
this document’s Terrorism Risk Profile
3. The September 2018 National Assessments Bureau Global Terrorism Update;
failing that, I request a copy of this report’s “extreme right terrorism” annex
4. The 2018 Counter-Terrorism Strategic Framework
5. The latest Security and Intelligence Board annual strategic assessment prior to
15 March 2019
And I request copies of these six documents underlying the Counter-Terrorism
Strategy:
1. The Counter-Terrorism System Capability Review
2. The Counter-Terrorism Work Programme
3. The Counter-Terrorism Implementation Plan
4. The High-Level Framework for the Prevention of Violent Extremism
5. The Public Information Action Plan
6. The Counter-Terrorism Playbook. If the “Counter-Terrorism Handbook” is a
separate document, I request a copy of this as wel …”
Our response released a number of documents to you. You asked the Ombudsman to
investigate the decision to withhold some information. In the light of the provisional
opinion from the Ombudsman and the time that has now passed, we have reassessed
three of the documents you requested and are in the process of releasing some
additional information to you.
Please find
attached a revised copy of the 2021 Counter-Terrorism work programme
releasing the final column titled ‘Next Key Milestone’. You will note that a small amount
of information is still withheld from the document under the following sections of the
Act:
• section 6(a), to protect the security or defence of New Zealand or the
international relations of New Zealand, and
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• section 9(2)(f)(iv), to maintain the confidentiality of advice tendered by or to
Ministers and officials.
Where section 9 applies, no public interest in releasing the withheld information has
been identified that would be sufficient to override the reasons for withholding it.
You have the right to ask the Ombudsman to investigate and review my decision under
section 28(3) of the Act.
We are currently consulting on the release of the remaining two documents and I will
write again shortly once this process has been completed.
This revised response will be published on DPMC’s website as part of our regular
publication cycle. Typically, information is released monthly, or as otherwise
determined. Your personal information including name and contact details will be
removed for publication.
Yours sincerely
Tony Lynch
Deputy Chief Executive
National Security Group Enc: Revised copy of 2021 Counter-Terrorism Work Programme
Cc:
Office of the Ombudsmen
Ombudsmen reference: 554119
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