Office attendance
R S Grant made this Official Information request to Ministry of Education
The request was refused by Ministry of Education.
From: R S Grant
Dear Ministry of Education,
Please can you advise:
1) How many of your staff work from home on a permanent basis.
2) Approximately what proportion of your staff are in the office each day, on average.
If you do not have the above information, please provide any information you have created within the last 12 months (including but not limited to internal emails) discussing the extent to which Ministry staff attend the office versus working from home.
Yours faithfully,
R S Grant
From: Enquiries National
Ministry of Education
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From: Enquiries National
Ministry of Education
Kia ora R S Grant
Thank you for your request for information below. The Ministry will consider and respond to your request in accordance with the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act).
Under section 15(1) of the Act, we are required to make and inform you of our decision on your request as soon as reasonably practicable and in any case not later than 20 working days after the day on which your request is received. You can therefore expect to receive our decision on your request on or before 16 April 2024. If more than 20 working days are needed due to the potential workload and/or consultations involved in answering your request, we will notify you accordingly.
Please note, the Ministry may publicly release on our website the response to your request five days after you have received it. Any personal information will be removed.
In the interim, if you have any questions about your request, please email [email address].
Ngā mihi
Enquiries National Team | Ministry of Education | IB
8 Gilmer Terrace, Wellington
education.govt.nz
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From: Enquiries National
Ministry of Education
Tēnā koe R S Grant
OIA: 1325058 - Office attendance
Thank you for your email of 16 March 2024 to the Ministry of Education
(the Ministry) requesting the following information:
1. How many of your staff work from home on a permanent basis.
2. Approximately what proportion of your staff are in the office each
day, on average.
3. If you do not have the above information, please provide any
information you have created within the last 12 months (including but
not limited to internal emails) discussing the extent to which
Ministry staff attend the office versus working from home.
Your request has been considered under the Official Information Act 1982
(the Act).
In response to parts 1 and 2 of your request the Ministry does not collect
data on which staff are working from home on a permanent or day-to-day
basis, and therefore cannot determine staffing occupancy levels. These
arrangements are organised at a team level and not captured centrally to
the level of detail sought. As such, I am refusing these parts of your
request under section 18(g) of the Act, as the information is not held by
the Ministry, and I have no grounds for believing that the information is
either held by, or more closely connected to the functions of, another
department or organisation subject to the Act.
In response to part 3 of your request, as noted above, working from home
arrangements are arranged at a team level, and the information requested
is not captured centrally. As such, I am refusing this part of your
request under section 18(g) of the Act, as the information is not held by
the Ministry, and I have no grounds for believing that the information is
either held by, or more closely connected to the functions of, another
department or organisation subject to the Act.
I can advise however that the Ministry responded to a previous request in
December 2022 for our working from home policy. That response has been
published on our website at the following links:
[1]https://assets.education.govt.nz/public/...
[2]https://assets.education.govt.nz/public/...
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 [3][email address] or to
Office of the Ombudsman, PO Box 10152, Wellington 6143.
Nāku noa, nā
Enquiries National Team | Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga | Ministry of
Education | SW
[4]education.govt.nz
We shape an education system that delivers equitable and excellent
outcomes
He mea tārai e mātou te mātauranga kia rangatira ai, kia mana taurite ai
ōna huanga
[5]Te TD huhu o te MD tauranga
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From: R S Grant
Dear Enquiries National,
Thank you for your response. You say that the information is not held "by the Ministry" but also state that such arrangements are reached at a team level. Those teams are, in fact, the Ministry, and arrangements which those teams have reached are information that is held by the Ministry. You cannot therefore refuse to provide the information on the basis that it does not exist, while at the same time confirming that it does exist (although it is not held centrally).
This being the case, please can you review your response and consider how to provide the information that is held at the level of individual teams or, alternatively, refusing on some other grounds.
You will appreciate that this is not to be treated as a new request under the OIA. I am simply giving you an opportunity to respond to my original request in a way that complies with the OIA.
Yours sincerely,
R S Grant
From: Enquiries National
Ministry of Education
Tēnā koe mō tō īmēra mai ki te Tāhuhu o Thank you for your email to the
te Mātauranga. Ministry of Education.
He urupare aunoa tēnei hei whakaatu kua This is an auto generated response
tae mai tō īmēra confirming your email has been
ki a mātou. Kaua noa e whakautu i tēnei received. Please do not respond to this
karere. message.
Mea ake nei ka urupare tonu atu mātou ki We will respond to your email as soon
tō īmēra. as possible.
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From: Enquiries National
Ministry of Education
Kia ora R S Grant,
Thank you for your follow up email. We have reviewed our response to you
and consider that your request has been appropriately refused under the
Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) as set out in our response below.
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] to
the office of the Ombudsman, PO Box 10152, Wellington 6143.
Nāku noa, nā
Enquiries National Team | Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga | Ministry of
Education | TW
[2]education.govt.nz
We shape an education system that delivers equitable and excellent
outcomes
He mea tārai e mātou te mātauranga kia rangatira ai, kia mana taurite ai
ōna huanga
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