Communications between Otago Public Health & the Ministry of Education
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From: Al
Dear all,
I'd like to request communications between anyone at the Ministry of Education and Otago Public Health affiliated members - that i've listed below - between April 2020 and December 2022:
Prof Michael Baker
Prof Nick Wilson
Dr Ling Chan
Dr Nitasha Rimar
Dr Lucy Telfar Barnard
Lesley Gray
Dr Sophie Febery
Dr Amanda Klasvig
Dr Jennifer Summers
To support your search the communications can be limited to:
- emails between any of these listed people and Ministry of Education email accounts
- any mention of meetings between anyone at the Ministry of Education that included any of the above listed people.
Here i'm primarily interested in the title of the meeting and the date and who attended out of the above list with Ministry of Education people.
Thank you for you help,
Al Johnson
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From: Al <[FYI request #22077 email]>
Sent: Monday, 13 March 2023 10:06 am
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Subject: Official Information request - Communications between Otago Public Health & the Ministry of Education
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Dear all,
I'd like to request communications between anyone at the Ministry of Education and Otago Public Health affiliated members - that i've listed below - between April 2020 and December 2022:
Prof Michael Baker
Prof Nick Wilson
Dr Ling Chan
Dr Nitasha Rimar
Dr Lucy Telfar Barnard
Lesley Gray
Dr Sophie Febery
Dr Amanda Klasvig
Dr Jennifer Summers
To support your search the communications can be limited to:
- emails between any of these listed people and Ministry of Education email accounts
- any mention of meetings between anyone at the Ministry of Education that included any of the above listed people.
Here i'm primarily interested in the title of the meeting and the date and who attended out of the above list with Ministry of Education people.
Thank you for you help,
Al Johnson
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From: Ashleigh Watson
Ministry of Education
Tēnā koe Al
Thank you for your email of 13 March 2023 to the Ministry of Education
requesting the following information:
communications between anyone at the Ministry of Education and Otago
Public Health affiliated members - that i've listed below - between April
2020 and December 2022:
o Prof Michael Baker
o Prof Nick Wilson
o Dr Ling Chan
o Dr Nitasha Rimar
o Dr Lucy Telfar Barnard
o Lesley Gray
o Dr Sophie Febery
o Dr Amanda Klasvig
o Dr Jennifer Summers
To support your search the communications can be limited to:
o emails between any of these listed people and Ministry of Education
email accounts
o any mention of meetings between anyone at the Ministry of Education
that included any of the above listed people.
Here i'm primarily interested in the title of the meeting and the date and
who attended out of the above list with Ministry of Education people.
Your request has been considered under the Official Information Act 1982
(the Act).
Your request, as currently worded, is very broad in nature and scope and
lacks due particularity. As it stands, your request would include a
keyword search through the email accounts of all current and former
Ministry staff members, to determine if they had ever emailed the listed
individuals.
This would cover a large quantity of information which would require a
substantial amount of time to collate. As such, it is likely that your
request, as it currently stands, would be refused under section 18(f) of
the Act as the information requested cannot be made available without
substantial collation or research.
In the hope that we may be able to avoid refusing your request, we would
be grateful if you could provide further detail around the nature of the
information you are looking for, so that we might be able to identify
Ministry staff who are most likely to hold correspondence with Otago
Public Health staff.
I look forward to hearing from you. Once we have your clarification, we
will commence work on your request.
Naku noa, nā
Ashleigh Watson | Advisor | Government, Executive and Ministerial Services
(GEMS)
Te Pou Rangatōpū | Corporate
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From: Al <[1][FOI #22077 email]>
Sent: Monday, 13 March 2023 10:06 am
To: Enquiries National <[2][email address]>
Subject: Official Information request - Communications between Otago
Public Health & the Ministry of Education
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Dear all,
I'd like to request communications between anyone at the Ministry of
Education and Otago Public Health affiliated members - that i've listed
below - between April 2020 and December 2022:
Prof Michael Baker
Prof Nick Wilson
Dr Ling Chan
Dr Nitasha Rimar
Dr Lucy Telfar Barnard
Lesley Gray
Dr Sophie Febery
Dr Amanda Klasvig
Dr Jennifer Summers
To support your search the communications can be limited to:
- emails between any of these listed people and Ministry of Education
email accounts
- any mention of meetings between anyone at the Ministry of Education that
included any of the above listed people.
Here i'm primarily interested in the title of the meeting and the date and
who attended out of the above list with Ministry of Education people.
Thank you for you help,
Al Johnson
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From: Al
Hi Ashleigh and team,
Thanks for the response where you stated:
Your request, as currently worded, is very broad in nature and scope and
lacks due particularity. As it stands, your request would include a
keyword search through the email accounts of all current and former
Ministry staff members, to determine if they had ever emailed the listed
individuals. In the hope that we may be able to avoid refusing your request, we would
be grateful if you could provide further detail around the nature of the
information you are looking for, so that we might be able to identify
Ministry staff who are most likely to hold correspondence with Otago
Public Health staff.
I don't think that holds quite true as i gave:
- What i was looking for (emails and meetings only)
- Clear names to search on (list of defined names that are only from public health Otago)
- A defined time period to search on
And i'm concerned that providing more details will mean i could miss information due to your request to only look for communications with a subset of staff members.
Would providing key words support reducing the scope as well?
Thank you for your help in progressing this oia request,
Al
From: Enquiries National
Ministry of Education
Tēnā koe Al
OIA: 1306566 – Correspondence with Otago Public Health
Thank you for your email of 13 March 2023 to the Ministry of Education
requesting the following information:
communications between anyone at the Ministry of Education and Otago
Public Health affiliated members - that i've listed below - between April
2020 and December 2022:
o Prof Michael Baker
o Prof Nick Wilson
o Dr Ling Chan
o Dr Nitasha Rimar
o Dr Lucy Telfar Barnard
o Lesley Gray
o Dr Sophie Febery
o Dr Amanda Klasvig
o Dr Jennifer Summers
Your request has been considered under the Official Information Act 1982
(the Act).
We have conducted an IT search across all Ministry of Education email
accounts, including those of former staff, for the names you have listed
above. We have identified no correspondence between Ministry officials and
any of the listed individuals during the period requested. Therefore, we
are refusing your request under section 18(e) of the Act, as the
information requested does not exist or, despite reasonable efforts to
locate it, cannot be found.
Thank you again for your email. You have the right to ask an Ombudsman to
review my decision on your request, in accordance with section 28 of the
Act. You can do this by writing to [1][email address] or to
Office of the Ombudsman, PO Box 10152, Wellington 6143.
Ngā mihi
Enquiries National Team | Ministry of Education ^MC
[2]education.govt.nz | [3]Follow us on Twitter: @educationgovtnz
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