19 November 2024
Joyce
[FYI request #28654 email]
Dear Joyce
Official Information Request
Our Ref: OIA 2024-0301
I refer to your official information request received on 4 October 2024 where you have asked:
“Please provide copies of advice given to MoE, Minister for education, treasury and DPMC
relating to machinery of government options for department of school building
Including advice relating to functional CE and departmental agency.”
Information publicly available
Please find outlined in the below table advice provided to the Minister for Education and the
Minister for the Public Service relating to the machinery of government options for department of
school building, which is publicly available on the Commission’s website at the links provided for in
the table.
Item
Date
Document Description
Link
1
22 July 2024
https://www.publicservice.go
2024-0210 - Report of the Ministerial Inquiry into
vt.nz/assets/DirectoryFile/Aid
e-Memoire-Report-of-the-
School Property
Ministerial-Inquiry-into-
School-Property.pdf
2
5 August 2024
https://www.publicservice.go
vt.nz/assets/DirectoryFile/Re
2024-0232 - Draft Cabinet paper Report of the
port-Draft-Cabinet-paper-
Ministerial Inquiry into School Property
Report-of-the-Ministerial-
Inquiry-into-School-Property-
1.pdf
3
12 August 2024
https://www.publicservice.go
vt.nz/assets/DirectoryFile/Aid
2024-0244 - Ministerial consultation on draft
e-Memoire-Ministerial-
Cabinet paper responding to the school
consultation-on-draft-
property inquiry
Cabinet-paper-responding-
to-the-school-property-
inquiry.pdf
Level 10, RBNZ Building | 2 The Terrace | PO Box 329
Wel ington 6140 | New Zealand
Phone +64 4 495 6600
4
26 August 2024
https://www.publicservice.go
2024-0259 - Consultation on updated draft
vt.nz/assets/DirectoryFile/Aid
e-Memoire-Consultation-on-
Cabinet paper responding to the School
updated-draft-Cabinet-paper-
Property Inquiry
responding-to-the-School-
Property-Inquiry.pdf
Accordingly, I am refusing your request under section 18(d) of the Official Information Act 1982, on
the grounds the information requested is or soon wil be publicly available. Some relevant
information has been removed from documents listed in the above table and should continue to be
withheld under the OIA, on the grounds described in the documents.
Information being withheld
There are two additional documents covered by your request that I have decided to withhold in full
under section 9(2)(g)(i) in order to maintain the effective conduct of public affairs through the free
and frank expression of opinions.
In making my decision, I have considered the public interest considerations in section 9(1) of the
OIA.
If you wish to discuss this decision with us, please feel free to contact
[email address]. You have the right to seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman of this decision.
Information about how to make a complaint is available at
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or
freephone 0800 802 602.
Please note that we intend to publish this letter (with your personal details removed) on the Te
Kawa Mataaho Public Service Commission’s website.
Yours sincerely
Nicky Dirks
Manager – Ministerial and Executive Services
Te Kawa Mataaho Public Service Commission
Document Outline
