Briefings of meetings with Minister of Immigration
M Stephens made this Official Information request to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
The request was partially successful.
From: M Stephens
Dear Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade,
I would like to request under the Official Information Act:
* all briefing for meetings with the Minister of Immigration in the last eighteen months.
If any documents that fall within the scope of my request are to be
withheld in full then I would like the titles and dates of those
documents to be released. I would also prefer that if my request is
expansive enough to trigger a s18(f) refusal that I can be provided
with the titles/dates of the relevant documents so that I can focus
my request forwards particular documents.
Yours faithfully,
M Stephens
From: ESD
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
[UNCLASSIFIED]
Dear M Stephens
Please find attached a letter regarding your request under the Official Information Act.
Yours sincerely
Nick Markwell
Acting Divisional Manager
Executive Services Division
New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade | Manatū Aorere
T +64 4 439 8061 M +64 21 408 514
-----Original Message-----
From: M Stephens [mailto:[OIA #1630 email]]
Sent: Sunday, 27 April 2014 11:15 a.m.
To: ENQUIRIES
Subject: Official Information Act request - Briefings of meetings with Minister of Immigration
Dear Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade,
I would like to request under the Official Information Act:
* all briefing for meetings with the Minister of Immigration in the last eighteen months.
If any documents that fall within the scope of my request are to be withheld in full then I would like the titles and dates of those documents to be released. I would also prefer that if my request is expansive enough to trigger a s18(f) refusal that I can be provided with the titles/dates of the relevant documents so that I can focus my request forwards particular documents.
Yours faithfully,
M Stephens
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From: M Stephens
Dear ESD,
I'm following up on this OIA request that was due (with an extension) on June 20. Is there a new ETA for it to be ready?
Yours sincerely,
M Stephens
From: M Stephens
Dear Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade,
I'm following up on the OIA request made below that originally on April 27 and was due (with an extension) on June 20. Is there a new time for it to be ready?
Yours faithfully,
M Stephens
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I would like to request under the Official Information Act:
* all briefing for meetings with the Minister of Immigration in the
last eighteen months.
If any documents that fall within the scope of my request are to be
withheld in full then I would like the titles and dates of those
documents to be released. I would also prefer that if my request is
expansive enough to trigger a s18(f) refusal that I can be provided
with the titles/dates of the relevant documents so that I can focus
my request forwards particular documents.
From: ESD
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
[UNCLASSIFIED]
Dear M Stephens
We'll get back to you about this as soon as we can. We regret the delay.
Regards.
-----Original Message-----
From: M Stephens [mailto:[OIA #1630 email]]
Sent: Wednesday, 16 July 2014 11:21 a.m.
To: ENQUIRIES
Subject: Re: Official Information Act request - Briefings of meetings with Minister of Immigration
Dear Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade,
I'm following up on the OIA request made below that originally on April 27 and was due (with an extension) on June 20. Is there a new time for it to be ready?
Yours faithfully,
M Stephens
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I would like to request under the Official Information Act:
* all briefing for meetings with the Minister of Immigration in the last eighteen months.
If any documents that fall within the scope of my request are to be withheld in full then I would like the titles and dates of those documents to be released. I would also prefer that if my request is expansive enough to trigger a s18(f) refusal that I can be provided with the titles/dates of the relevant documents so that I can focus my request forwards particular documents.
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From: ESD
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
[UNCLASSIFIED]
Dear M Stephens
Please find attached our response to your emailed OIA request.
Kind regards
Executive Services Division
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
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M Stephens left an annotation ()
Thanks Joshua, I made a complaint to the Ombudsman last September and hear that the response is waiting at home for me. I will certainly follow up on this one too given the amount of withheld material. In other places, I think I can challenge some of the s(9) rulings based on 'public interest'... well I will give it a go, at least.
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Joshua Grainger left an annotation ()
Very interesting: I did a follow up on the review of IPB that is mentioned in one of the briefings.
The only thing I would mention is that you should challenge to the Ombudsman the extensive practice of just stating s6(a) or other sections without any further explanation. The Ombudsman has said in their OIA guide on s6 that
"The public sector agency must be able to identify, with sufficient particularity, the nature of the prejudicial effect and explain how such prejudice will occur in order to meet the tests for withholding in section 6"
There is no explanation here. In particular just stating s6(a) doesn't identify exactly what aspect of s6(a) is relied upon: s6(a) covers both the international relations of NZ and national security: which is it here?
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