Advice on childhood obesity package
Alex Harris made this Official Information request to Ministry of Health
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From: Alex Harris
Dear Ministry of Health,
On 19 October the government announced a new package of measures to combat childhood obesity ("Government targets overweight mums, toddlers, to combat childhood obesity ", Stuff, 19 October 2015). I wish to request the following information under the OIA:
* All advice (e.g. cabinet papers, briefing notes, aides memoire, but excluding emails unless they constituted formal advice) on the new childhood obesity package. I am particularly interested in advice around sugar taxes and why they were not pursued as a policy measure.
I would prefer to receive an electronic response. Queries about
this request will be automatically forwarded to me by the
fyi.org.nz website.
With regards to s12 of the OIA, I am an NZ citizen and in NZ.
Yours faithfully,
Alex Harris
Ministry of Health
Dear Alex Harris
Please find attached a copy of the email and response to your request sent
on 30 October 2015. Unfortunately it appears the original email address
was not copied correctly and the response did not go through to the FYI
website. We apologise for this error.
From: OIA Requests/MOH
To: [email address],
Cc: OIA Requests/MOH@MOH
Date: 30/10/2015 04:11 p.m.
Subject: Response to your request for official information
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Dear Alex
Please find attached a letter regarding your request for official
information.
Kind regards,
Chris Fletcher l OIA Co-ordinator
Ashley Goodwin l Support Officer
[email address]
Government Relations l Office of the Director General
[1]http://www.health.govt.nz
Regards
Liz McMillan
Manager
Government Relations l Office of the Director General
[2]http://www.health.govt.nz
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Hi,
This OIA request was due on November 18, but no response (or acknowledgement) has been received. will I be getting a response soon, or do I need to go to the Ombudsman?
Yours sincerely,
Alex Harris
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