Hon Todd McClay
Minister of Agriculture
Minister of Forestry
Minister for Trade and Investment
Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs
10 February 2025
OIA123
John Luke
By email: [email address]. nz
Dear John Luke,
Official Information Act request
Thank you for your email of 19 December 2024 in which you requested the following under the
Official Information Act 1982 (the Act):
I noted, https://gazette. govt.nz/noticelid/2024-go6366
May I ask how you called for public nomination and on what platform you have call for
public nominations e.g. govt.jobs website. Also, how many applications you have
received from the public and how many you have received from other nominating
agencies such as TPK or Ministry of women etc for your role. May I also seek a
copy
of the ad went out to public and the appointment letter sent to the appointee (not need
to be this round, any previous one as
an example would be ok), feel free to redact any
personal information.
Further please also supply bio of member appointed, if you have one.
The Gazette notice you referenced in your request (Gazette Notice No. MPI 1863) was for the
reappointment of a Board member. Generally, nominations are only sought when new members are
to be appointed and the process that we follow is informed by the Crown Entities Act 2004. I therefore
did not seek nominations for this reappointment.
The appointment letter sent to the appointee is attached as
Appendix One.
Some information has been withheld pursuant section 9(2)(a) of the Act -
to protect the privacy of
natural persons.
Where the information has been withheld under section 9 of the Act, no public interest in releasing
the information has been identified that would override the reasons for withholding it.
For more information on the Commission's Board and its members, please refer to
https://www.herengaanuku.qovt.nz/our-work/abouUour-people/board. As this page contains
biographies of Board members, this part of your request is declined under section 18(d) of the Act
as the information requested is publicly available.
Private Bag 18041, Parliament Buildings, Wellington 6160, New Zealand I +64 4 817 6810 I [Todd McClay request email]
