26 July 2021
John Luke
[FYI request #15990 email]
Tēnā koe John
Your Official Information Act request OIA2122-0019
Thank you for your email of 7 July 2021 requesting under the Official Information Act 1982
(the Act):
“…an update on [the Ministerial Ethnic Communities Advisory Group] given the
ministry for ethnic communities has been established. Are there any further
discussion or timeline been established since my last years request? Also, if there
are progress, can you please provide me with timeline on when they going to call
for public nominations?”
Although the Office of Ethnic Communities informal y sought nominations from relevant
government agencies for membership to a Ministerial Ethnic Communities Advisory Group in
late 2019, the proposed Group was not formally established. Your request is therefore
declined under section 18(e) of the Act, as the information does not exist.
You have the right, under section 28(1)(a) of the Act, to seek an investigation and review of
this response by the Office of the Ombudsman. You can do so by contacting the Office of the
Ombudsman at www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or by cal ing 0800 802 602.
Ngā mihi
Bella Sutherland
Acting Executive Director Operations
Ministry for Ethnic Communities
www.ethniccommunities.govt.nz