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From: Brendan Swan <[FOI #23771 email]>;
Received: Thu Aug 10 2023 14:45:10 GMT+1200 (New Zealand Standard Time)
To: OIA Requests <[email address]>; OIA <[email address]>;
Subject: Official Information request - Process behind the creation of the
Government Policy Statement on Health

Dear Ministry of Health,

I am requesting information regarding the process used to create the
Government Policy Statement on Health. Specifically
- How are the topics decided upon?
- What is the process for deciding what items are selected for inclusion?
- Who is responsible for drafting the document?
- Who is responsible for reviewing and editing the document?
- Are there any protocols for submitting suggestions?
- Can you please share documentation that was used to support and create
the current "Interim Government Policy Statement on Health 2022-2024"?

Yours faithfully,
Brendan Swan

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Kia ora Brendan,

Thank you for your request for official information, received on 10 August
2023. We are contacting you to refine part of your request:

Can you please share documentation that was used to support and create the
current "Interim Government Policy Statement on Health 2022-2024"?

We are contacting you in accordance with section 18B of the Official
Information Act 1982 (the Act) as your request, as it is currently worded,
is for a very large volume of information. Your request may be refused
under section 18(f) of the Act as the information requested cannot be made
available without substantial collation or research.

In order to provide you with information sooner and in order to work
within a more manageable request, are you happy to refine your request to
all briefings that were used to support and create the current “Interim
Government Policy Statement on Health 2022-2024”?

Please respond by 22 August 2023 so that we can consider your refinement
in our response to your request.

Please note, under section 15 of the Official Information Act 1982, any
clarification or amendments made to a request within seven days after the
date it is received, that request may be treated as a new request and the
time limit for the response restarts.

We look forward to receiving your response.

Ngâ mihi 

  

OIA Services Team

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Kia ora Brendan,

Thank you for your refined request for official information received on 10
August 2023 requesting:   

  

“I am requesting information regarding the process used to create the
Government Policy Statement on Health. Specifically 

- How are the topics decided upon? 

- What is the process for deciding what items are selected for
inclusion? 

- Who is responsible for drafting the document? 

- Who is responsible for reviewing and editing the document? 

- Are there any protocols for submitting suggestions? 

- Can you please share documentation that was used to support and create
the current "Interim Government Policy Statement on Health
2022-2024?”   

  

The Ministry of Health has decided to extend the
period of time available to respond to your request under section
15A of the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) as the
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. 

You can now expect a response to your request on, or before, 18 October
2023.   

  

You have the right, under section 28 of the Act, to ask the Ombudsman to
review my decision to extend the time available to respond to your
request.   

Ngâ mihi 

  

OIA Services Team

Manatû Hauora | Ministry of Health

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Kia ora Brendan

 

Please find attached the response to your request for official
information.

 

Ngā mihi 

  

 

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