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Tēnā koe,

 

Thank you for your Official Information Act request below dated 2 May
2022, requesting the following:

 

“1.         All list of all email communications to and from any
Statistics New Zealand employee, secondee or contractor and any Customs
Service employee, secondee or contractor for the period 1 May 2018 – 30
April 2022. This list should include the sent or received date, the email
account it was sent from or received by, the subject line and the
filenames of any documents attached to the email. Under section 16 of the
OIA, our preferred means of receiving this information is in tabular form
in a spreadsheet or CSV format.

 

2.           The contents of all emails identified by Customs New Zealand
in the list generated when responding to item 1 above that relate to the
following topics:

a.           Data sharing

b.           Data ethics

c.           Data security

d.           Transparency

e.           Data governance

f.            Data management

g.           The writing or circulation of advice, a paper, memo or
guidance on ‘security vs transparency’

 

3.           Copies of the attachments to any of the emails meeting the
criteria identified in items 1 and 2 above.”

 

Customs is working through your Official Information Act request as it is
very broad in nature as it currently stands. We have also been in
discussion with Statistics New Zealand as we understand from the FYI
website that they have received a similar request and are also in
communication with you about refining the scope of their request. We
understand that you are considering the refinement of your request to
Statistics New Zealand at this point in time. If relevant, this may then
assist you in being able to refine the scope of your request to Customs,
to allow Customs to provide you with a response in a timely way.

 

Happy to discuss if that would be helpful.

 

Ngā mihi,

Correspondence, Reviews and Ministerial Servicing team

 

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Tēnā koe,

 

Please find attached a response to your Official Information Act request.

 

Ngā mihi,

Correspondence, Reviews and Ministerial Servicing team

New Zealand Customs Service

 

 

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