Kia ora Peter,

 

On behalf of the Ministry of Transport, I acknowledge your Official
Information Act request of 27 May 2024 seeking:

 

“Could you please provide an up-to-date breakdown of expenditure in
2023/24 including:

-travel expenses

-contractors

-consultants

-learning and development

-Te Tiriti training

-Te Reo training

-Any other sensitive expenditure

 

Where possible, please break this information down by provider including a
summary of the service provide, the reason that a particular provider was
chosen and all correspondence outlining the decision-making process?”

 

We will endeavour to respond to your request as soon as possible, and in
any event no later than 25 June 2024 being 20 working days after the day
your request was received. If we are unable to respond to your request by
then, we will notify you of an extension of that timeframe.

 

The Ministry publishes Official Information Act responses on our website
when there may be wider interest in the information released. This means
the information provided to you might be published after you have received
it.

 

Ngâ mihi

 

Harry (He / Him)

Kaitohutohu - Tuhinga Ôkawa|Adviser - Accountability and Correspondence

 

 

 

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Dear Peter

 

I refer to your email dated 27 May 2024, requesting the following under
the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act):

 

 

“Could you please provide an up-to-date breakdown of expenditure in
2023/24 including:

-travel expenses

-contractors

-consultants

-learning and development

-Te Tiriti training

-Te Reo training

-Any other sensitive expenditure

 

Where possible, please break this information down by provider including a
summary of the service provide, the reason that a particular provider was
chosen and all correspondence outlining the decision-making process?”

 

In the second part of your request, you have requested copies of all
correspondence outlining the decision-making process. The Ministry has
large number of contractors and consultants. In order to respond to your
request, it would require the Ministry to gather documents and
correspondence from a number of places such as individual procurement
folders and staff email accounts who were part of the decision-making
process during the finalisation of the contracts. This would require
significant effort.

 

However, we would be able to provide you with details around the standard
procurement processes followed at the Ministry. Could you please confirm
if you are comfortable with this approach.  

 

Please note that if you are not comfortable with the approach above and
wish to proceed with the request as it stands, we will need to consider
refusing that part of your request under section 18(f) of the Act that the
requested information cannot be made available without substantial
collation and research.

 

Could you please provide your response as soon as possible.

 

Kind regards

 

Te Manatû Waka Ministry of Transport

 

 

From: OIA <[email address]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2024 1:48 PM
To: Jimmy Lanyard <[FOI #27030 email]>
Subject: RE: Official Information request - Sensitive Expenditure in
2023/24 OC240581

 

Kia ora Peter,

 

On behalf of the Ministry of Transport, I acknowledge your Official
Information Act request of 27 May 2024 seeking:

 

“Could you please provide an up-to-date breakdown of expenditure in
2023/24 including:

-travel expenses

-contractors

-consultants

-learning and development

-Te Tiriti training

-Te Reo training

-Any other sensitive expenditure

 

Where possible, please break this information down by provider including a
summary of the service provide, the reason that a particular provider was
chosen and all correspondence outlining the decision-making process?”

 

We will endeavour to respond to your request as soon as possible, and in
any event no later than 25 June 2024 being 20 working days after the day
your request was received. If we are unable to respond to your request by
then, we will notify you of an extension of that timeframe.

 

The Ministry publishes Official Information Act responses on our website
when there may be wider interest in the information released. This means
the information provided to you might be published after you have received
it.

 

Ngâ mihi

 

Harry (He / Him)

Kaitohutohu - Tuhinga Ôkawa|Adviser - Accountability and Correspondence

 

 

 

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Dear Peter

Please find attached our response to your Official Information Act request
of 27 May 2024.

Kind regards,

Ministerial Services

 

Te Manatū Waka Ministry of Transport

 

 

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