23 July 2025
Esther Bowater
[FYI request #31316 email]
Dear Esther
Official Information Request
Our Ref: PSCR 2025-0757
I refer to your official information request received on 26 June 2025 where you asked:
“I am requesting all communication and advice given to the Minister or the Ministry of Health
on the continuation of the Health Chart in legislation.”
Information being released
The fol owing information is covered by your request and is or wil soon be publicly available on the
Public Service Commission and the Ministry of Health’s websites at the links provided in table
below.
Item Date
Document Description
Decision
1
27 March 2025
Memo to Office of the Minister of Health Publicly available soon
- Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act
https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/pu
Amendments
blications
2
8 May 2025
Regulatory Impact Statement:
Publicly available
Amendments to the Pae Ora (Healthy
https://www.health.govt.nz/informati
Futures) Act 2022
on-releases/amendments-to-the-pae-
ora-healthy-futures-act-2022
3
9 June 2025
Cabinet paper: Health Delivery Plain: Publicly available
Policy and Legislative Changes
https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/as
sets/DirectoryFile/Health-Delivery-
Plan-Update-on-policy-and-
legislative-changes.pdf
Accordingly, I have refused your request for the documents listed in the table above under section
18(d) of the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA) on the grounds the information requested is or wil
soon 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.
Level 10, Te Iho | 1 Lambton Quay | PO Box 329
Wellington 6140 | New Zealand
Phone +64 4 495 6600
Information to be withheld
There are additional documents covered by your request that I have decided to withhold in full
under one or more of the fol owing sections of the OIA, as applicable:
• section 9(2)(f)(iv) – to maintain the current constitutional conventions protecting the
confidentiality of advice tendered by Ministers and officials
• section 9(2)(g) - to maintain the effective conduct of public affairs through the free and frank
expression of opinions by or between or to Ministers of the Crown or members of an
organisation or officers and employees of any public service agency or organisation in the
course of their duty
• section 9(2)(h) - to maintain legal professional privilege.
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
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