6 September 2022 
 
 
Harry Peterson 
[FYI request #19806 email] 
 
 
Mālō e lelei Harry 
 
RESPONSE TO AN OFFICIAL INFORMATION ACT REQUEST 
 
On 24 August 2022, Cabinet Office partially transferred a request to the Ministry for Pacific 
Peoples (MPP) in which you requested, under the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA), the 
following information: 
 
All documents and Cabinet papers mentioning Whangārei in relation to infrastructure and 
health funding decisions from the date beginning October 2017. 
 
I understand Cabinet Office also transferred this to several other agencies and Ministers. I am 
providing you with MPP’s response. 
 
Prior to partially transferring this request to MPP, Cabinet Office completed a search for relevant 
Cabinet papers; as a result of their search, they identified the following two MPP papers that were 
potentially within scope of your request: 
 
1.  All-of-Government Pacific Wellbeing Strategy 
2.  Pacific Employment Action Plan – Prosperous Pacific Communities 
 
We have reviewed these two papers and can confirm they are not within scope of your request. 
In addition, we have completed a search of all other MPP Cabinet papers and found no other 
papers in scope of your request. I must therefore refuse your request under section 18(e) of the 
OIA as the information requested does not exist.  
 
However, if you are interested in the two Cabinet papers referenced, they are publicly available 
on our website. I have provided the links for you above. 
 
In line with standard OIA practice, the Ministry proactively publishes its responses to OIA 
requests. As such, this letter will be published on the Ministry for Pacific Peoples’ website. Your 
personal details will be removed, and the Ministry will not publish any information that would 
identify you or your company.  
 
Should you wish to discuss this response with us, please feel free to contact the Ministry at: 
[email address].    
 
 
Wellington (National Office) 
  Auckland 
Christchurch 
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101‐103 The Terrace 
  PO Box 97005 
120 Hereford St 
PO Box 833, Wellington 6140 
South Auckland Mail Centre 2240 
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Ph: 04 473 4493    
  Ph: 09 265 3200 
Christchurch 8011 
Fax: 04 473 4301 
  Fax: 09 265 3202 
Fax: 03 353 9499 
 
 

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If you are dissatisfied with this response, you have the right, under section 28(3) of the OIA, to 
seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman. Information about how to make a complaint 
is available at www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or freephone 0800 802 602. 
 
Mālō ‘aupito 
 
 
 
Leilani Unasa 
Director, Policy 
 
 
 
 
 

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