30 March 2026
M Herle
[FYI request #33970 email]
Ref: PMO OIA 725-2025-26
Dear M,
Official Information Act request: Funding information and correspondence with Zero
Invasive Predators
Thank you for your Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) request, received on 6 March
2026. You requested:
“[…] formal and informal correspondence between the Prime Minister, the Department
of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (e.g., staff, aids) and Al Bramley of Zero Invasive
Predators (ZIP) within the time frame of January 2023 - present. Specifical y, I am
requesting to receive information and correspondence on the following topics:
•
The nature of funding and project requests coming from ZIP to the Prime
Minister and the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (e.g., formal and
informal correspondence showing funding communication processes, asks for
funding, confirmation of funding).
•
The total amount of funding ZIP has received from the Prime Minister or
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet in the specified time frame,
including funding that would extend beyond present day (e.g., ending in 2029).
•
The total number of contracts held by the Prime Minister or Department of the
Prime Minister and Cabinet in the specified time frame.
•
Text on the deliverables that correspond to the funding ZIP has received from
the Prime Minister or Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (What is
the money being used for).
•
Information on total contract lengths and/or funding lengths for the specified
time frame.
•
Information the areas of New Zealand that ZIP is using the funding to work
within.
•
Email correspondence and any other correspondence that was involved in the
process of deciding and awarding said funding to ZIP including, but not limited
to, correspondence from the Prime Minister or Department of the Prime Minister
and Cabinet.”
On 27 March, I notified you of my decision to partially transfer your request to the
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. The present response covers any material
held by this office.
I have interpreted the timeframe for your request to be from 27 November 2023 (the date
Rt Hon Christopher Luxon was sworn in as Prime Minister) to 6 March 2026 (the date your
request was original y received by this office).
This office has carried out a search of its electronic databases for information relevant to
your request. No relevant information has been identified and, as such, your request is
refused under section 18(e) of the Act as the requested information does not exist or,
despite reasonable efforts to locate it, cannot be found.
You have the right to ask the Ombudsman to investigate and review my decision under
section 28(3) of the Act.
Yours sincerely,
Cameron Burrows
Chief of Staff
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