Lead Coordination Minister for the Government’s Response to the Royal Commission’s Report into the Terrorist Attack on the Christchurch Mosques
27 September 2022
Harry Peterson
By email:
[FYI request #19806 email]
Ref:
ALOIA258
Dear Harry
Response to your request for official information
Thank you for your request under the Of icial Information Act 1982 (the Act) on 24 August
2022 for:
“Al documents and Cabinet papers mentioning Whangarei in relation to infrastructure
and health funding decisions from the date beginning October 25 2017”
On 1 September 2022 we contacted you in accordance with section 18B of the Act to clarify
whether you were specifically looking for Cabinet material mentioning Whangārei in relation
to infrastructure and health funding decisions. We asked this because your request for ‘all
documents’ encapsulates a substantial amount of information, including emails and informal
correspondence, which may lead to requests being refused under section 18(f) of the Act.
On 7 September 2022 you were contacted a second time to follow up on this clarification.
However, my office has not received a response to date. In order to provide reasonable
assistance in accordance with section 13 of the Act, I am providing you with a list of documents
relevant to the topic you have indicated interest in. This list may be useful for you to refer to if
you wish to make a more specific request in the future:
Date
Document title
May 2017
Northland DHB: Whangārei Hospital Redevelopment Strategic Assessment
13 April 2018
Northland DHB: Whangārei Hospital – Single Stage Business Case Interim
Works Package
24 September 2018 Joint Report: Request for approval of funding for Northland DHB’s Whangārei
Hospital Critical Capacity Works Projects Stage One
1 November 2019
Northland DHB – Interim capacity and compliance – Stage 2, investment
options
25 May 2020
Northland DHB – Whangārei Hospital Redevelopment
5 March 2021
Northland DHB Request for variation in Whangārei Critical Capacity and
Compliance Stage one programme of works
April 2021
Northland DHB: Whangārei Hospital Redevelopment presentation
Date
Document title
20 April 2021
Whangārei Hospital Redevelopment Project Quarterly Assurance report
28 April 2021
Event briefing: Opening the new Cardiac Catheter Laboratory and operating
theatres at Whangārei Hospital, and announcement of expanded youth mental
health and addiction services across Northland, Auckland and Waitematā
29 April 2021
Regional Hospital Redevelopment Programme: Whangārei Hospital
Redevelopment April 2021
30 April 2021
Whangārei Hospital Site Masterplan: Masterplan Report for Programme
Business Case
21 May 2021
Joint Briefing: DHB projects variation approval requests
25 May 2021
Northland DHB – Critical capacity and compliance programme -stage two
variation request.
15 June 2021
Joint Briefing: Regional hospital redevelopments
Briefing: Health Infrastructure milestones for the next 12 months
13 July 2021
Joint Briefing: Health capital priorities, pressures and process improvements
16 July 2021
Letter re update on the Whangārei Hospital Redevelopment Detailed Business
Case
19 July 2021
Letter re Northland DHB crown funded projects – Equity drawdown Q4
2020/21
27 September 2021 Northland DHB – Linear accelerator and associated support facilities including
bunkers. Single stage business case
8 October 2021
Joint Briefing: Accelerating health capital project delivery
26 October 2021
Regional Hospital Redevelopment Programme September Project update
28 October 2021
Letter re update on the Whangārei Hospital Redevelopment Detailed Business
Case
1 November 2021
Health Capital Envelope (HCE) – Project Performance Summary.
2 November 2021
Memo: DHB infrastructure update – October 2021.
18 November 2021 Northland DHB - Whangārei Hospital Redevelopment progress.
26 November 2021 Ministry of Health: Quarter One Performance Report 1 July – 30 September
2021 .
18 January 2022
Letter re Certification of costs to date.
Turning to your request for ‘Cabinet papers’, as you are aware the Cabinet Of ice undertook
a search of CabNet to determine Cabinet papers that may be in scope of the request before
transferring to my Office.
However, after reviewing the Cabinet papers that they identified, it has been determined that
none of these are within the scope of your request. Therefore, your request for Cabinet papers
is refused under section 18(e) of the Act.
Under section 28(3) of the Act, you have the right to ask the Ombudsman to review any
decisions made under this request. The Ombudsman may be contacted by email at:
[email address] or by calling 0800 802 602.
Yours sincerely
Hon Andrew Little
Minister of Health
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