Dear Accident Compensation Corporation,

I refer to your responses GOV-044064 (26 November 2025), GOV-044691 (9 December 2025), and GOV-044440 (10 December 2025) concerning ACC’s external legal expenditure on reviews, appeals, and dispute resolution.

In GOV-044691 you refused parts 1–3 of my 26 November follow-up request under section 18(e) of the Official Information Act 1982 on the basis that certain cost-centre, project code, and data-dictionary information “does not exist”. At the same time, GOV-044064 and GOV-044440 demonstrate that ACC is able to produce disaggregated dispute-resolution figures by GL account and forum (e.g. DCAPPS, HCAPPS, CAAPPS; 43070 “Statutory Appeals”; 06020 “Appeal, Mediation & Review”).

To clarify those refusals and to avoid any further misunderstanding, I request the following narrow items of information:

Data dictionary / field definitions actually used for the tables already released.
Please provide any existing data dictionary, field definition list, or similar documentation that finance, reporting, or BI staff use for the fields appearing in the appendices to GOV-044064 and GOV-044440, including (but not limited to):

GL Account

GL Account Description

Analysis Code

Analysis Code Description / Forum

Supplier / Supplier Type

If no formal data dictionary or field-definition document exists for these specific fields, please confirm this explicitly in writing.

Definitions of the appeal-related analysis codes already disclosed.
Please provide any document (for example a finance procedure, chart of accounts extract, reporting specification, or system design note) that defines or describes the analysis codes:

CAAPPS

DCAPPS

HCAPPS
and explains how these codes are used to distinguish Court of Appeal, District Court, and High Court dispute-resolution expenditure in ACC’s finance/ERP systems.

Section 23 statement of reasons for the section 18(e) decision in GOV-044691.
Under section 23 of the Official Information Act, please provide the reasons for ACC’s decision in GOV-044691 to refuse parts 1–3 of my 26 November 2025 request under section 18(e), including:

the findings of fact relied upon to conclude that relevant cost-centre, project-code, and data-dictionary information “does not exist”; and

the titles or descriptions of any internal documents, if any, that were checked before that conclusion was reached.

These questions are tightly confined to metadata and reasoning that must already exist in order for ACC to produce the dispute-resolution spend tables released in GOV-044064 and GOV-044440. No new data extraction or per-claim review is sought.

I am happy to receive the information in PDF or Word format.

Kind regards,
Spencer Jones