Puhoro STEMM Academy
Joel Robinson made this Official Information request to Health New Zealand
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From: Joel Robinson
Dear Health New Zealand,
I am requesting the following information under the Official Information Act 1982.
This request relates to any funding, contracts, grants, sponsorships, procurement arrangements, partnership agreements, memoranda of understanding, or other financial support provided by your organisation to Pūhoro Charitable Trust, Pūhoro STEMM Academy, or Pūhoro.
Please provide information for the period 1 July 2023 to the date of this request.
Please provide:
- A list of all funding arrangements with Pūhoro, including the name of the arrangement, start and end date, total approved value, amount paid by financial year, and whether the funding was contestable or non-contestable.
- Copies of the relevant funding agreements, contracts, data-sharing agreements, grant agreements, variations, memoranda of understanding, schedules of deliverables, reporting requirements, and performance measures.
- Copies of reporting received from Pūhoro, including milestone reports, performance reports, monitoring reports, evaluation reports, acquittals, invoices, and evidence of delivery.
- Any outcome data held by your organisation relating to Pūhoro, including the number of participants who entered tertiary study, degree-level study, engineering, technology, IT/computer science, science, health, other STEMM pathways, or STEMM employment.
- Any substantive correspondence, including emails, between your organisation and Pūhoro relating to:
* renewal, extension, variation, or increase of funding;
* reporting, performance measures, or outcome data;
* definitions of “transition to tertiary”, “STEMM pathway”, “science qualification”, or similar outcome measures;
* concerns or issues with delivery, reporting, payment, invoicing, or contract performance.
If any part of this request is too broad, please contact me before refusing it so I can refine the scope.
Yours faithfully,
Joel Robinson
From: hnzOIA
Kia ora Joel
Thank you for your request for official information, received on 8 May
2025 for information regarding Pūhoro STEMM. Your full request for
information is at the bottom of this email.
As such, your request as currently worded may be refused under substantial
manual collation and research (section 18(f) of the OIA).
To avoid refusing your request and provide a practical response within
statutory timeframes, we would like to work with you to ensure we can
provide a response that best meets your needs.
We suggest that you refine your request to information for the period 1
January 2026 to the date of this request (8 May 2026).
- A list of all funding arrangements with Pūhoro, including the name of
the arrangement, start and end date, total approved value, amount paid by
financial year, and whether the funding was contestable or
non-contestable.
- Copies of the relevant funding agreements, contracts, data-sharing
agreements, grant agreements, variations, memoranda of understanding,
schedules of deliverables, reporting requirements, and performance
measures.
Please note, under section 15 of the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA),
any clarification or amendments made to a request within seven days after
the date it is received, that request may be treated as a new request and
the time limit for the response restarts.
Note that even if we can narrow the scope of your request this does not
mean we will be able to provide the information requested. However, it
does make the request more manageable to respond to.
If you could confirm or otherwise if you are comfortable with the above
suggested refinement and provide your nominated district by 5pm on 14 May
2026, that would be appreciated.
If we do not hear from you by 5pm on 14 May 2026, we will proceed to make
a decision on your request based on our interpretation of it.
Ngā mihi
Zelda
Government Services (OIA)
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From: Joel Robinson
Dear Zelda,
How about 1 January 2025 to date of request? I am concerned that if we only covered 2026, then annual reports would not be included.
Yours sincerely,
Joel Robinson
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