Reference: 20220213
10 June 2022
Chuck Schooner
[FYI request #19313 email]
Dear Chuck
Thank you for your Official Information Act request that was transferred to the Treasury
by the Minister for COVID-19 response, Hon Chris Hipkins on 30 May 2022. You
requested:
“Now that numbers are out on how bankrupt our country is and what the Covid-19
response cost was please provide the total spend
- Towards investigations into the origin of the pandemic and scope of work
associated with this
Information publicly available
The following information is covered by your request and is publicly available on the
Treasury website:
Item Date
Document Description
Website Address
1. 10 March 2022
COVID-19 funding allocation
www.treasury.govt.nz/publ
and expenditure
ications/budgets/covid-19-
funding-allocation-
expenditure
Please note, this webpage includes links to information on expenditure in respect of
COVID-19 related appropriations.
Accordingly, I have refused your request for the document noted in the above table
under section 18(d) of the Official Information Act:
• the information requested is or will soon be publicly available.
- If investigations have not been done then why not
- Are you aware the WHO declared Coronovirus eradicated in 2012? That is
unless you play with these viruses in labs which is what has been done
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https://treasury.govt.nz
- Given the above why would the WHO be trusted under a global pandemic treaty
when there is every chance they are tied to the release of this virus and
subsequent power grab as per this global treaty
The information you have requested is not held by the Treasury. Therefore, this part of
your request is refused under section18(g)(i) of the Act, the information requested is
not held by the department or Minister, and there is no reason to think that transferring
the request would yield the information from another source.
Please note that this letter (with your personal details removed) and enclosed
documents may be published on the Treasury website.
This reply addresses the information you requested. You have the right to ask the
Ombudsman to investigate and review my decision.
Yours sincerely
Reubhan Swann
Manager, Ministerial Advisory Service
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