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23/12/2025
Annette Thomson
[FYI request #32247 email]
Tēnā koe Annette
OIA: 1353357 - Correspondence sent between the Ministry and Minister Stanford and/or the
ministerial advisory group on the Arts curriculum 0-13 and Arts subjects in phase 5 of the
curriculum
I am writing further to your request below for information:
Whakaari Aotearoa Drama NZ is requesting emails and correspondence sent between the
Ministry and Erica Stanford and/or the ministerial advisory group on the Arts curriculum 0-13
and Arts subjects in phase 5 of the curriculum: Drama, Dance, Music, Visual Arts, and Te Ao
Haka in 2025.
We apologise for the delay in providing you with the four documents identified in our response to
you of 27 November 2025. We have not delivered this information to you and acknowledge that in
not doing so, we have failed to meet our obligations under the Official Information Act 1982 (the
Act).
In working with the Ombudsman’s Office in response to your complaint on our handling of your
response and in preparing the four documents for release, further documents within scope of your
request have been identified to the four we notified you of.
We are working to finalise the additional content and to provide you with all the relevant
information. I sincerely apologise for the undue delay and incorrect identification of information in
scope of your request. This is not in line with our obligations under the legislation, nor is it in line
with the expectations we have of ourselves and our processes.
We will continue to work with the office of the Ombudsman on this matter and will provide them
with a copy of this letter for their information. We will be in touch during the week of 19 January
2025 and provide you an update on our progress to confirm the documents in scope and timing of
our response.
Wellington National Office, 1 The Terrace, Levels 5 to 14, Wellington 6011
PO Box 1666, Wellington 6140, DX SR51201 Phone: +64 4 463 8000
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Nāku noa, nā
Lorraine Monahan
Manager, Ministerial Services
Government, Executive and Ministerial Services
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