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Dear Lauren,

Thank you for your email of 2/11/2024 in which you submitted an Official Information Act request as follows:

"- The minister's plan to adequately resource mental health and ambulance services, including the breakdown of additional budget allocation for personal protective equipment, training and education, additional funding for increased workload, and funding assigned to legal protection and aid for ambulance workers.
- Briefings the minister has received concerning ambulance and mental health services preparedness.
- Confirm whether you as Minister for Mental Health, are in agreement with the Minister of Police with this withdrawal going ahead without publicly available plans for how mental health and ambulance services will manage the unilateral withdrawal from police.
- Confirm whether your public statements have been based on advice or reflect your own views on the matter.
- Confirm whether ambulance services have agreed to a protocol for transfer of the service from police to ambulance services, and provide that protocol.
- Release minutes and briefings related to advice the minister has received concerning preparedness, including any policy impact statements.
- Release any minutes or briefings from either Te Whatu Ora or the Ministry of Health, which raise concerns about the safety of patients or workers, including any PCBU risks.
- Provide any advice ACC has given concerning PCBU risks in the context of the police withdrawal.
- Release any risk assessments undertaken by the Ministry of Health, Te Whatu Ora, ACC or Ambulance Organisations concerning the likelihood of excess mortality arising from both the withdrawal itself and also how the police have decided to withdraw.
- Release any consultation documents developed with ambulance services and workers, including Hato Hone St John, Life Flight and Wellington Free Ambulance.
- Explain the absence of any such documents, and why there wouldn't have been such a document produced before implementation if one doesn't exist."

Minister Doocey is considering your request in accordance with the Act, and you can expect a response by 29/11/2024.

Yours sincerely

Office of Hon Matt Doocey
Minister for ACC | Minister for Mental Health | Minister for Tourism and Hospitality | Minister for Youth |
Associate Minister of Health | Associate Minister of Transport

DDI: 04 817 6812
Email: [Matt Doocey request email] Website: www.Beehive.govt.nz
Private Bag 18041, Parliament Buildings, Wellington 6160, New Zealand

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