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-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Ecclestone <[FOI #26285 email]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 2, 2024 4:20 PM
To: Enquiries <[PSC request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Briefings to incoming governments

COMMISSION

This email was sent from someone outside of Te Kawa Mataaho. Please take extra care.

Dear Public Service Commission,

In October 2017 the State Services Commission provided to the Prime Minister a 'Briefing to the Incoming Government'.

A copy of the State Services Commissioner's letter to the Prime Minister is published on your website here:
https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/public...

However, the link on that page to the Briefing itself is broken and a search of your website and publications does not provide a link to the document itself.

I can also find no reference on your website to any 'Briefing to the Incoming Government' provided after the 2023 general election, or to any provided after the 2020 general election, but I know the 2017 briefing was not exceptional as I have a copy of the 2014 Briefing to the Incoming Government.

I would therefore like to request the following information:

1) An unredacted copy of the Briefing to the Incoming Government sent to the Prime Minister in 2017;

2) An unredacted copy of any briefing, or briefings, to the incoming Government sent to any minister after the 2020 general election; and

3) An unredacted copy of the covering letters that were sent by the Commission to any minister who was provided with a briefing, or briefings, to the incoming government after the 2020 general election;

4) An unredacted copy of any briefing, or briefings, to the incoming Government sent to any minister after the 2023 general election; and

5) An unredacted copy of the covering letters that were sent by the Commission to any minister who was provided with a briefing, or briefings, to the incoming government after the 2023 general election.

To be clear, I am not requesting the post-election briefings to individual incoming State Services or Public Service ministers, unless they were the recipients of the Briefings to the Incoming Government.

Under section 16(2) of the OIA my preferences are (a) to receive a copy of the whole of each document (b) that the information is disclosed in a text searchable format, either Word or PDF, and (c) that it is sent to the email address from which the Commission received this request.

If the Commission decides that there is 'good reason' under the OIA to withhold any of the information I am requesting, then under section 19(a)(ii) of the OIA, I further request that the Commission provide me with the grounds in support of each withholding reason cited for refusal, and what public interest factors favouring release it has considered.

If any part of our request is unclear, please don't hesitate to contact me via the address this request was received from.

Yours faithfully,

Andrew Ecclestone

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Dear Andrew

 

Please find attached our response to your below OIA request.

 

Kind regards

 

Enquiries Team

īmēra: [1][email address]

Te Kawa Mataaho Public Service Commission [4]Facebook logo[5]Twitter
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-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Ecclestone <[FOI #26285 email]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 2, 2024 4:20 PM
To: Enquiries <[PSC request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Briefings to incoming governments

 

COMMISSION

 

This email was sent from someone outside of Te Kawa Mataaho. Please take
extra care.

 

 

 

Dear Public Service Commission,

 

In October 2017 the State Services Commission provided to the Prime
Minister a 'Briefing to the Incoming Government'.

 

A copy of the State Services Commissioner's letter to the Prime Minister
is published on your website here:

[8]https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/public...

 

However, the link on that page to the Briefing itself is broken and a
search of your website and publications does not provide a link to the
document itself.

 

I can also find no reference on your website to any 'Briefing to the
Incoming Government' provided after the 2023 general election, or to any
provided after the 2020 general election, but I know the 2017 briefing was
not exceptional as I have a copy of the 2014 Briefing to the Incoming
Government.

 

I would therefore like to request the following information:

 

1) An unredacted copy of the Briefing to the Incoming Government sent to
the Prime Minister in 2017;

 

2) An unredacted copy of any briefing, or briefings, to the incoming
Government sent to any minister after the 2020 general election; and

 

3) An unredacted copy of the covering letters that were sent by the
Commission to any minister who was provided with a briefing, or briefings,
to the incoming government after the 2020 general election;

 

4) An unredacted copy of any briefing, or briefings, to the incoming
Government sent to any minister after the 2023 general election; and

 

5) An unredacted copy of the covering letters that were sent by the
Commission to any minister who was provided with a briefing, or briefings,
to the incoming government after the 2023 general election.

 

To be clear, I am not requesting the post-election briefings to individual
incoming State Services or Public Service ministers, unless they were the
recipients of the Briefings to the Incoming Government.

 

Under section 16(2) of the OIA my preferences are (a) to receive a copy of
the whole of each document (b) that the information is disclosed in a text
searchable format, either Word or PDF, and (c) that it is sent to the
email address from which the Commission received this request.

 

If the Commission decides that there is 'good reason' under the OIA to
withhold any of the information I am requesting, then under section
19(a)(ii) of the OIA, I further request that the Commission provide me
with the grounds in support of each withholding reason cited for refusal,
and what public interest factors favouring release it has considered.

 

If any part of our request is unclear, please don't hesitate to contact me
via the address this request was received from.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Andrew Ecclestone

 

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page.

 

 

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