Dear Mr Stoneley

 

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION UNDER THE OFFICIAL INFORMATION ACT 1982 (THE
“ACT”)

 

I refer to your email of 28 August 2015 to the office of Hon Todd McClay,
Minister for State Owned Enterprises (SOEs). In this email, you request:

 

·         “1.      Please provide a table with the following information:

o   a.      The name of the SoE that was sold

o   b.      What percentage was sold

o   c.      How many shares were sold

o   d.      What was the total income the Government received from the
sale of that percentage/shares asset

o   e.      Were there any other information about the profit or
proportions sold

o   f.      What was the total income from all of the above combined that
was added to the “Future Investment Fund”

·         2.      This website shows the total income from the SoE sales
should be atleast $4.7 billion:
[1]http://www.treasury.govt.nz/budget/2015/...

 

Your request will be processed under the terms of the Act and a response
will be provided to you within 20 working days from the above date.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

 

 

Rebecca Barnes-Clarke

Advisor – State Owned Enterprises

 

 

Rebecca Barnes-Clarke  |  State Owned Enterprises  |  Office of Hon Todd
McClay  |  Level 19R Bowen House, Parliament Buildings, PO Box 18041,
Wellington 6160, New Zealand 

E: [2][email address]   
W: [3]http://www.beehive.govt.nz  and  [4]http://www.parliament.nz

 

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Dear Liam

 

Please see attached a response to your OIA request.

 

Christian Hermansen | Private Secretary | Office of Hon Todd McClay

MP for Rotorua | Minister of Revenue | Minister for State Owned
Enterprises

Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs | Associate Minister of Trade

Tel: DDI 04 817 8230 | [mobile number]

 

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From: Liam Stoneley
Sent: Friday, 28 August 2015 5:29:13 p.m.
To: Hon Todd McClay
Subject: Official Information Act request - All SoE Profits from 2011 to
2015

Dear Minister for State Owned Enterprises,

This is a request for information, made under ss 4 and 5 of the Official
Information Act 1982 (“the Act”). I therefore would like the following
information;

1.      Please provide a table with the following information:
a.      The name of the SoE that was sold
b.      What percentage was sold
c.      How many shares were sold
d.      What was the total income the Government received from the sale of
that percentage/shares asset
e.      Were there any other information about the profit or proportions
sold
f.      What was the total income from all of the above combined that was
added to the “Future Investment Fund”
2.      This website shows the total income from the SoE sales should be
atleast $4.7 billion:
[1]http://www.treasury.govt.nz/budget/2015/...

Please CONFIRM receipt of this email to prevent unnecessary follow-up
emails and extensions being requested.
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As required by s12(1) of the Act, I am a New Zealand citizen. I will
provide confirmation of this, if required. However, since all of our
correspondence will be published on the FYI.org.nz site, I will only do so
over the phone or email, with which you provide. This would only be for
the purpose of citizenship confirmation, and nothing further related to
this request.

As required by s12(3) of the Act, I shall provide reason(s) why this
request should be treated as URGENT. The questions above raise important
issues of accountability of the Government, its departments and agents.
Any and all information provided as a result of this request could and may
be published either by the writer online to a wide audience or passed onto
media outlets for publication so that the public can be kept informed on
important issues of transparency.

As required by s13(c) of the Act, if this request “has not been made … to
the appropriate department or Minister of the Crown or organisation or
local authority”, it is your duty to give reasonable assistance to me to
direct my request to the appropriate department or Minister of the Crown
or organisation or local authority.

Further to the above statutory requirement, under s14 of the Act, if the
information I seek is either not held or you believe it is more closely
connected with another department or Minister of the Crown or
organisation, or of a local authority you shall promptly, and in any case
not later than 10 working days after the day on which the request is
received, transfer the request to the other department or Minister of the
Crown or organisation, or to that local authority, AND inform me 
accordingly.

As required under s15A of the Act, if you believe that a time extension is
warranted for this request, you must under ss15A(2),(3) and (4) give
notice to me of this extension within 20 working days after the day on
which my request was received. In that notice, you should state; the
period of the extension, give reasons for the extension and remind me of
my right to complain to the Ombudsman  under s28(3). Finally, the
extension must be for a reasonable time, having regards to the
circumstances.

As required by s18B of the Act, you must consider consulting me before
refusing my request under the provisions of ss18(e) and (f) which relate
to a document not being able to be found or existing or where substantial
collation and research would be required for my current request.

As required by s19(a)(i), you must provide reasons if you refuse any parts
of this request.

I will, if required, complain to the Ombudsman, as is my right under
s28(3) of the Act, if any of the above statutory requirements on you are
not complied with. Further to this, if your reply is not “as soon as
reasonably practicable, and in any case not later than 20 working days
after the day on which the request is received” as required under s15(1)
of the Act, I will also complain to the Ombudsman.

This request is made through the site FYI.org.nz. All correspondence will
be automatically forwarded to me through the site and published online
immediately. I require, where appropriate, all electronic copies of all
documents in your response. For more information on how the site works,
please visit [2]www.fyi.org.nz/help/about.

Yours faithfully,

Liam Stoneley

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