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Thank you for your email received 18 May 2021, under the Official Information Act 1982. Your request has been forwarded to the appropriate officials at National Office to respond. You can expect a decision as soon as reasonably practicable, and in any case not later than 20 working days after the day on which the request was received.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Will Inglis <[FYI request #15488 email]>
Sent: Tuesday, 18 May 2021 1:55 pm
To: OIA_Requests (MSD) <[MSD request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Copies of past OIA responses

Dear Ministry of Social Development,

I'm requesting copies of the responses to OIA requests received by the Ministry and/or the Minister for Social Development between 2016 and 2020 containing:

- Lists of reports, aide memoires, briefings, memos etc. provided to the Minister over a specific period

Please include responses from former Ministers for Social Development during this period as well as the current Minister.

I have also made this request to Carmel Sepuloni.

Yours faithfully,

Will Inglis

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Tçnâ koe Will Inglis,

 

Please find attached the Ministry’s response to your Official Information
Act request.

 

 

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Services

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Tçnâ koe Will

 

Please see the attached OIA response from Minister Sepuloni in regards to
your request dated 18 May 2021.

 

Ngâ mihi, Anna

 

Anna Nissen | Private Secretary

Office of Hon Carmel Sepuloni MP, Minister for Social Development &
Employment, Minister for Disability Issues, Minister for ACC and Minister
for Arts, Culture and Heritage

 

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Kia ora Will

 

Thank you for your email.

 

The information that has been redacted as ‘Out of Scope’ falls under
Minister Sepuloni’s Disability Issues portfolio.

 

You may remember the attached email discussion from 27 May 2021.

 

As you indicated that you were only interested in the Social Development
aspect of Minister Sepuloni’s Social Development and Employment portfolio,
this information was removed.

 

Should you still wish to receive the redacted information, we can reassess
this as a new OIA request.

 

Many thanks

 

Ngā mihi, Anna

 

Anna Nissen | Private Secretary

Office of Hon Carmel Sepuloni MP, Minister for Social Development &
Employment, Minister for Disability Issues, Minister for ACC and Minister
for Arts, Culture and Heritage

 

Email disclaimer:

Please note information about meetings related to the Ministers’
portfolios will be proactively released (this does not include personal or
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date, time (start and finish), brief description, location, who the
meeting was with, and the portfolio. If you attend a meeting with the
Minister on behalf of an organisation, the name of the organisation will
be released. If you are a senior staff member at an organisation, or meet
with the Minister in your personal capacity, your name may also be
released. The location of the meeting will be released, unless it is a
private residence. The proactive release will be consistent with the
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-----Original Message-----

From: Will Inglis
[[2]mailto:[FOI #15488 email]]

Sent: Monday, 21 June 2021 5:57 PM

To: C Sepuloni (MIN) <[3][email address]>

Subject: Re: 2021.06.21 OIA Response from Hon Carmel Sepuloni to Will
Inglis - 21-7424

 

Dear C Sepuloni (MIN),

 

Thank you for this response.

 

I note that a couple of titles have been withheld as "outside of scope." I
don't believe this is correct. My original request was for "copies of the
responses to OIA requests". As these responses included these titles, I
don't believe they are out of scope, even if they relate to a different
portfolio.

 

Are you able to send through these responses in full (aside from
redactions to protect privacy/ any other grounds that might apply)?

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Will Inglis

 

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Tçnâ koe Will

 

 

 

Please see the attached OIA response from Minister Sepuloni in regards to 
your request dated 18 May 2021.

 

 

 

Ngâ mihi, Anna

 

 

 

Anna Nissen | Private Secretary

 

Office of Hon Carmel Sepuloni MP, Minister for Social Development & 
Employment, Minister for Disability Issues, Minister for ACC and Minister 
for Arts, Culture and Heritage

 

 

 

Email disclaimer:

 

Please note information about meetings related to the Ministers’

portfolios will be proactively released (this does not include personal
or  constituency matters). For each meeting in scope, the summary would
list:

date, time (start and finish), brief description, location, who the 
meeting was with, and the portfolio. If you attend a meeting with the 
Minister on behalf of an organisation, the name of the organisation will 
be released. If you are a senior staff member at an organisation, or meet 
with the Minister in your personal capacity, your name may also be 
released. The location of the meeting will be released, unless it is a 
private residence. The proactive release will be consistent with the 
provisions in the Official Information Act, including privacy 
considerations. Under the Privacy Act 1993 you have the right to ask for
a  copy of any personal information we hold about you, and to ask for it
to  be corrected if you think it is wrong. If you’d like to ask for a copy
of  your information, or to have it corrected, or are concerned about the 
release of your information in the meeting disclosure, please contact the 
sender. You can read more about the proactive release policy at 
[1][4]https://www.dia.govt.nz/Proactive-Releas...

 

 

 

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Tçnâ koe Will

 

Please see attached, the updated OIA response from Minister Sepuloni in
regards to your request dated 18 May 2021.

 

Ngâ mihi, Anna

 

Anna Nissen | Private Secretary

Office of Hon Carmel Sepuloni MP, Minister for Social Development &
Employment, Minister for Disability Issues, Minister for ACC and Minister
for Arts, Culture and Heritage

 

Email disclaimer:

Please note information about meetings related to the Ministers’
portfolios will be proactively released (this does not include personal or
constituency matters). For each meeting in scope, the summary would list:
date, time (start and finish), brief description, location, who the
meeting was with, and the portfolio. If you attend a meeting with the
Minister on behalf of an organisation, the name of the organisation will
be released. If you are a senior staff member at an organisation, or meet
with the Minister in your personal capacity, your name may also be
released. The location of the meeting will be released, unless it is a
private residence. The proactive release will be consistent with the
provisions in the Official Information Act, including privacy
considerations. Under the Privacy Act 1993 you have the right to ask for a
copy of any personal information we hold about you, and to ask for it to
be corrected if you think it is wrong. If you’d like to ask for a copy of
your information, or to have it corrected, or are concerned about the
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