6 June 2024
Erika Whittome
[FYI request #26376 email] Tēnā koe Erika
Your request for official information, reference: HNZ00043524
Thank you for your email which Manatū Hauora | Ministry of Health transferred to Health New
Zealand | Te Whatu Ora on 9 May 2024, asking for the following under the Official Information Act
1982 (the Act):
“1. all the minutes of the subsequent meetings with the digital security team on the above
decision to review, and the minutes when any security setting changes were proposed.
2. Any written reviews or current-state documentation of the security settings "before" and
"after" states for any changes from Sept-Dec 2021.
3. The records of digital security changes that were made, ie the change control documents
or (ICT) tickets to implement these digital security changes. I am requesting the high-level
information on what was implemented, the rollback plan for the change or the work ticket
etc. Please, no need for network details such as IP addresses, VLANs etc, just any fully
qualified domain names which had security changes implemented on them.
4 During this review, were digital security changes implemented for both student and staff
VLANS? Or just staff VLANs in the Education and Tertiary sector?
5. Please include any related memos, texts, emails and correspondence etc around the
digital security settings review which were to address the reported difficulties with anti-
vaccine sentiment in this environment, as reported in the steering group minutes dated 7
Sept 2021. I assume this review would have been ongoing for a number of weeks or
months.”
On 22 May 2024 you provided a copy of the minutes dated ‘7 September 2021’ to assist us with
providing a response to your request.
Response
The Covid-19 Vaccine and Immunisation Programme Steering Group referenced in your request
was established and managed by the Ministry of Health, prior to the creation of Health New
Zealand in July 2022. We are responding to your request as functions in this area were transferred
from the Ministry of Health and are now the responsibility of Health New Zealand.
As the group and subsequent minutes you refer to in your request were prior to the creation of
Health New Zealand, we do not hold any information within scope of your request. To provide you
with reasonable assistance, we have made extensive enquiries across the organisation and
despite those efforts, cannot locate any information in scope of your request.
Therefore, your request is refused under section 18(g) of the Act as it is not held by Health New
Zealand, and we do not believe it is held by another agency subject to the Act.
How to get in touch
If you have any questions, you can contact us at
[email address].
If you are not happy with this response, you have the right to make a complaint to the
Ombudsman. Information about how to do this is available at
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or
by phoning 0800 802 602.
As this information may be of interest to other members of the public, Health NZ may proactively
release a copy of this response on our website. All requester data, including your name and
contact details, will be removed prior to release.
Nāku iti noa, nā
Danielle Coe
Manager (OIA) Government Services
Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora
TeWhatuOra.govt.nz
Health NZ, PO Box 793,
Wellington 6140, New Zealand
