National Headquarters
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PO Box 2133
Wellington
New Zealand
Phone +64 4 496 3600
22 October 2021
Alan Thompson
By email: [FYI request #16885 email]
Dear Alan
Information Request – Local Area Committee Outputs
I refer to your official information request dated 25 September 2021 asking for the following
information in respect of the Chatham Islands and Hawke’s Bay Local Advisory Committees (LACs)
.
“Copies of the independent information and advice (Outputs) that the Chathams LAC has
provided to FENZ since its establishment. Please note that I do not seek copies of
any quarterly report by the LAC to FENZ on their activities (Inputs) unless these include
independent information and/or advice.”
Your request has been assessed in accordance with the provisions of the Official Information Act
1982.
For context, LACs provide independent information and advice to Fire and Emergency New
Zealand at their quarterly meetings which our regional and district personnel attend, and in their
quarterly reporting to the Board. Each Committee’s information and advice is included in a register
which is updated after each meeting. These registers therefore form a record of the ‘independent
information and advice’ given by LAC’s to Fire and Emergency. A decision has been made to
release the information you requested, in the form of these registers. The information is
enclosed as appendix 1 and 2.
You have the right to seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman of this decision.
Information about how to make a complaint is availab
le at www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or
freephone 0800 802 602.
Yours sincerely
Raewyn Bleakley
Deputy Chief Executive, Office of the Chief Executive