8 July 2025
Matthew Shelton
Via email:
fyirequest31252[email address]
Tēnā koe Matthew
Request for information: Expenditure data
Thank you for your request dated 9 June 2025 under the Official Information Act 1982 (the
Act) for data relating to expenditure for various medicines. You requested:
under the OIA please provide the annual expenditure, up to the current year to date,
since 2018 on
1. Chemotherapeutic drugs for cancer
2. Clexane
3. oral anticoagulants, separating warfarin and direct thrombin inhibitors 4.
immunomodulaters eg DMARDs, prednisone 5. fentanyl and midazolam injectibles
used in the community 6. AntiParkinsonian agents 7. HRT products
You wil find the information you requested in the excel spreadsheet attached.
We trust that this information answers your queries. Please note, you have the right to make
a complaint to the Ombudsman about our response to your OIA, under section 28(3) of the
OIA. Details of
how to make a complaint are on the Ombudsman’s website.
To make information more freely available, we publish selected OIA responses (excluding
personal details) on our website. Please get in touch with us if you have any questions about
this.
Nāku noa, nā
Oliver Whitehead
Team Leader, Government Services
202425197
