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Good morning Andrew,

Please find attached your OIA acknowledgement.

Kind regards,

Alex Taylor
Private Secretary | Office of Hon Simon Bridges

Minister of Energy and Resources | Minister of Transport | Deputy Leader of the House
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-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Riddell [mailto:[FOI #5065 email]]
Sent: Monday, 5 December 2016 8:11 p.m.
To: S Bridges (MIN)
Subject: Official Information request - Unredacted copy of light rail cost report

Dear Minister of Transport,

On 9 November 2016 my request about an assertion that light rail projects can have significant cost overruns was transferred to you for answering.

On 1 December a heavily redacted document was sent to me, with the claim that the redactions were made because those parts of the diocument were out of scope.

This is taking a very narrow view of the purposes and principle of availability set out in the Official Information Act.

The effect of those redactions is that the assertion that light rail projects can have signficiant cost overruns cannot be placed in a proper context. I do not accept, therefore, that those redacted parts of the document were out of scope.

I now request a complete unredacted copy of the Briefing to Minister of Transport titled "Cost and Financing of Light Rail Projects" dated 5 February 2015.

I expect you will be able to provide this information in signficiantly less time than the 20 working days it took to provide the redacted version of the report.

I confirm I am a New Zealand citizen resident in New Zealand.

Yours faithfully,

Andrew Riddell

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Good Afternoon

 

Please find a response attached from the office of Hon Simon Bridges
regarding your Official Information Act request.

 

Kind regards

 

Zara Awatere|  Administration Private Secretary – Transport

Office of Hon Simon Bridges  |  Minister of Transport

Beehive, Parliament Buildings, Wellington 6160, New Zealand

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