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Kia ora,

Thank you for contacting Hon Paul Goldsmith, Minister of Justice, Minister
for Arts, Culture and Heritage, Minister for Media and Communications and
Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations.

Hon Paul Goldsmith considers all correspondence important and appreciates
you taking the time to write. As the Minister receives a large amount of
correspondence, it is not always possible to personally reply to all
emails.

If your correspondence is diary related, requests will be processed
accordingly.

If your correspondence requires a response, you can expect a response in
due course.

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correspondence will be transferred to the appropriate Minister.

If your correspondence expresses an opinion, it will be noted.

If your request relates to media, it will be referred to Minister
Goldsmith’s Press Secretary.

If you have made a request for official information then this will be
managed in accordance with the provisions of the Official Information Act
1982, which may include transfer to a more relevant Minister or agency.
Over the holiday period in December and January
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Official Information Act (OIA) requests, that period is 25 December to 15
January, inclusive. That means any OIA requests submitted on 27 November
or later may take a bit longer than you
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Ngâ mihi,

Office of Hon Paul Goldsmith
Minister of Justice| Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage | Minister
for Media and Communications | Minister for Treaty of Waitangi
Negotiations

Freepost: Private Bag 18041 | Parliament Buildings | Wellington 6011

Good afternoon,

 

On behalf of Hon Paul Goldsmith, I acknowledge receipt of your official
information request dated 13 March, where you requested the following:

 

a) Minutes and

 

b) Ministerial briefings

 

By the Ministerial Advisory Group on Retail Crime

 

In addition please provide assistance by providing the list of e-mails
that include the subject & dates from the chair Sunny Kaushal so I can ask
for the correct emails without asking all of them.

 

We received your request on 13 March. We will endeavour to respond to your
request as soon as possible and in any event no later than 14 April, being
20 working days after the day your request was received.

 

If we are unable to respond to your request by then, we will notify you of
an extension of that timeframe.

 

Kind Regards,

 

 

Office of Hon Paul Goldsmith

Minister for Arts Culture and Heritage | Minister of Justice

Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations | Minister for Media and
Communications
 

Website: [1]www.Beehive,govt.nz

Private Bag 18041, Parliament Buildings, Wellington 6160, New Zealand

 

 

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Tçnâ koe,

 

Thank you for your Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) request of 13
March 2026. Specifically, you requested:

 

Please provide all the

 

a) Minutes and

 

b) Ministerial briefings

 

By the Ministerial Advisory Group on Retail Crime

 

In addition please provide assistance by providing the list of e-mails
that include the subject & dates from the chair Sunny Kaushal so I can ask
for the correct emails without asking all of them.

 

Section 12(2) of the Act states that information requested shall be
specified with due particularity, which means this office must be
reasonably able to identify what information is being requested by you. In
its current form, part of your request for ‘the list of e-mails that
include the subject & dates from the chair Sunny Kaushal’ is too broad to
reasonably respond to in the 20-day timeframe. Therefore, your request
will need to be clarified or amended to enable us to respond.

 

We suggest you could clarify your request by:

 

·        Providing a date range for your request,

·        Clarifying who the receiver(s) of the emails are, and

·        Advising key words/topics you are interested in.

 

Please let us know before EOD Friday 27 March 2026 whether you are
prepared to amend or clarify your request and, if so, how.

 

Please note that as the Minister has sought to clarify your request within
the first seven working days, on receipt of the confirmed scope, the
timeline to respond to you may reset under section 15(1) of the Act.

 

You have the right under section 28 of the Act to seek a review of this
decision in the handling of your request from the Ombudsman. The
Ombudsman’s contact details are available at: [1]Contact the Ombudsman |
Ombudsman New Zealand

 

 

Office of Hon Paul Goldsmith

Minister for Arts Culture and Heritage | Minister of Justice

Minister for Media and Communications | Minister for Treaty of Waitangi
Negotiations
 

Ministerial Email: [2][Paul Goldsmith request email] | Web:
[3]www.beehive.govt.nz

Freepost Parliament: Private Bag 18041, Parliament Buildings, Wellington
6160, New Zealand

 

Authorised by Hon Paul Goldsmith, Parliament Buildings, Wellington

 

 

 

From: Paul Goldsmith (MIN) <[4][email address]>
Sent: Monday, 16 March 2026 8:51 AM
To: Miss M Quicken <[5][FOI #34070 email]>
Subject: RE: OIAPG837 / Official Information request - Ministerial
Advisory Group on Retail Crime Briefings & Minutes

 

Good afternoon,

 

On behalf of Hon Paul Goldsmith, I acknowledge receipt of your official
information request dated 13 March, where you requested the following:

 

a) Minutes and

 

b) Ministerial briefings

 

By the Ministerial Advisory Group on Retail Crime

 

In addition please provide assistance by providing the list of e-mails
that include the subject & dates from the chair Sunny Kaushal so I can ask
for the correct emails without asking all of them.

 

We received your request on 13 March. We will endeavour to respond to your
request as soon as possible and in any event no later than 14 April, being
20 working days after the day your request was received.

 

If we are unable to respond to your request by then, we will notify you of
an extension of that timeframe.

 

Kind Regards,

 

 

Office of Hon Paul Goldsmith

Minister for Arts Culture and Heritage | Minister of Justice

Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations | Minister for Media and
Communications
 

Website: [6]www.Beehive,govt.nz

Private Bag 18041, Parliament Buildings, Wellington 6160, New Zealand

 

 

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Tēnā koe Miss Quicken

 

Please see attached the response from Hon Paul Goldsmith, Minister of
Justice, to your OIA request of 13 March 2026. We sincerely apologise for
the delay in responding to you.

 

Ngā mihi

 

[1]A blue and Office of Hon Paul Goldsmith
white emblem
Description Minister for Arts Culture and Heritage | Minister of Justice
automatically
generated Minister for Media and Communications | Minister for Pacific
Peoples

Minister for the Public Service and Digitising Government

Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations 

Email [2][Paul Goldsmith request email] | [3]www.beehive.govt.nz
Private Bag 18041, Parliament Buildings, Wellington 6160, New
Zealand

 

Authorised by Hon Paul Goldsmith, Parliament Buildings, Wellington

 

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