6 October 2022
John Jacobson
By email:
[FYI request #15162 email]
Ref: OIA-2020/21-0726
Dear John Jacobson
Follow-up to your Official Information Act request for information relating to
smartphone application for verification of COVID-19 vaccination status I refer to your Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) request that was partially
transferred from the Ministry of Health to the Department of the Prime Minister and
Cabinet (DPMC) on 30 June 2021. The part of your request transferred to DPMC was:
“(e) the project plan (or other documentation giving an overview of the
work) of any work to develop a smartphone app to record and display
someone’s proof or certification of their Covid-19 vaccination status.”
You asked the Ombudsman to investigate information that was withheld when DPMC
responded to you on 25 August 2021. On 14 April 2022 we wrote to you again
releasing some additional information previously withheld in the report dated 9 April
2021
Brief Insights Report – International COVID-19 Vaccine Certificates. In the light of
the Ombudsman’s opinion on the withholding of the remaining information from this
report and, given the passage of time and the different stage of the pandemic both here
and overseas, DPMC is now releasing to you the full report. Please find
attached a
copy of
Brief Insights Report – International COVID-19 Vaccine Certificates, without
any information withheld.
This response will be published on DPMC’s website during 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
Marika Hughes
Acting Deputy Chief Executive
National Security Group Enc: Unredacted copy of “
Brief Insights Report – International COVID-19 Vaccine Certificates”.
Cc:
Office of the Ombudsman (Complaint 561653)
Executive Wing, Parliament Buildings, Wellington, New Zealand 6011
4616770
64 4 817 9698 www.dpmc.govt.nz
