5 April 2023
C161816
Tim Rowlands
[FYI request #21246 email]
Tēnā koe Tim
On Saturday 26 November 2022, you submitted an Official Information Act 1982 (OIA)
request to the Department of Corrections – Ara Poutama Aotearoa (Corrections), requesting
information about the cost of Corrections’ recruitment advertisements.
Corrections logged your request as being received on the following working day, Monday 28
November 2022. Therefore, the deadline to respond to your request was calculated as 16
January 2023, due to the OIA Christmas shutdown period of 25 December 2022 to 15
January 2023. On 20 December 2022, we advised you of this timeframe.
Your request should have been logged as being received on Saturday 26 November 2022.
This would have resulted in a response being due to you no later than 23 December 2022.
I apologise for the delay in responding to your OIA request. Our staff have been reminded of
the importance of logging requests on the day they were received, rather than the following
working day.
Ngā mihi
Matt Huddleston
Manager Ministerial Services
People and Capability