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Sebastian
By email: [FYI request #15880 email]
Ref:
H202107536
Tēnā koe Sebastian
Response to your request for official information
Thank you for your request under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) on 23 June 2021
for:
“Copies of all minutes of COVID-19 Technical Advisory Group meetings, from these
dates:
1) January 2020
2) September 2020 to January 2021”
Please find attached all COVID-19 Technical Advisory Group Meeting Minutes for the time
periods requested. The documents are itemised in Appendix 1 and a decision on the release is
outlined in each document.
Please note, no meetings were held in December 2020 or January 2021.
Under section 28(3) of the Act you have the right to ask the Ombudsman to review any
decisions made under this request. The Ombudsman may be contacted by email at:
[email address] or by calling 0800 802 602.
Please note that this response, with your personal details removed, may be published on the
Ministry website at
: www.health.govt.nz/about-ministry/information-releases/responses-official-
information-act-requests.
Nāku noa, nā
Gill Hall
Group Manager, Science & Insights
COVID-19 Health System Response
Appendix 1: List of documents for release
# Date
Title
Decision on release
1 29 January 2020
TAG Minutes
Released in full.
2 4 September 2020
TAG Minutes
Some information withheld under
section 9(2)(k) to prevent the
disclosure or use of official
information for improper gain or
advantage.
3 18 September 2020 TAG Minutes
Some information withheld under
section 9(2)(k).
4 2 October 2020
TAG Minutes
Some information withheld under
section 9(2)(k).
5 16 October 2020
TAG Minutes
Some information withheld under the
following sections of the Act:
9(2)(ba)(i), to protect information that
is subject to an obligation of
confidence and making it available
would likely prejudice the supply of
similar information, or information
from the same source,
Some information withheld under
section 9(2)(k).
6 30 October 2020
TAG Minutes
Some information withheld under
section 9(2)(k).
7 13 November 2020
TAG Minutes
Some information withheld under
section 9(2)(k).
8 27 November 2020
TAG Minutes
Some information withheld under
section 9(2)(k).
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