27 September 2022
C156964
I Brown
[FYI request #20365 email]
Tēnā koe
Thank you for your Official Information Act 1982 (OIA) request of 27 August 2022 to the
Department of Corrections – Ara Poutama Aotearoa via the FYI website, requesting the
following information:
1.
A list of all educational programmes, courses, opportunities, or any other
format or type (hereafter ‘programme’), available to inmates in New Zealand prisons
for each of 2018, 2019, 2021, and 2022 including:
a.
The name, type, subject matter, and organisational provider, of each
programme; and
b.
The name of the prison or prisons in which each programme is available; and
c.
Whether it is available to remand prisoners, serving prisoners, or both; and
d.
If a programme is run more than once per year, the number of times per year
at each prison where it is run; and
e.
The capacity of each programme both per individual programme run and per
year, in each prison where the programme is available; and
f.
Respectively, the numbers of prisoners that enrol in, attend, and complete
successfully, each programme listed, both nationally and at each institution where
that programme is available, per year.
Corrections needs to extend the timeframe of our response to your request by 20 working
days, pursuant to section 15A(1)(b) of the OIA, as consultations necessary to make a
decision on the request are such that a proper response to the request cannot reasonably
be made within the original time limit. Therefore, you can expect to receive a response to
your request by 26 October 2022. If you no longer require this information, please let us
know as soon as possible.
NATIONAL OFFICE, WELLINGTON
Mayfair House, 44 – 52 The Terrace, Wellington, 6011, Private Box 1206, Wellington 6140,
Phone +64 4 460 3000
www.corrections.govt.nz
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Please be advised that should you have any concerns regarding this response you have the
right to ask the Ombudsman to investigate our decision to extend the timeframe. Contact
details are: Office of the Ombudsman, PO Box 10152, Wellington 6143.
Ngā mihi
Matt Huddleston
Manager Ministerial Services (acting)
People and Capability