Dear Office of the Controller and Auditor-General,

I am writing to respectfully request the following official information associated with the Controller and Auditor-General's October 2014 publication/release of the document: Accident Compensation Corporation: Using a case management approach to rehabilitation, and the investigations and auditing that took place within the Controller and Auditor General's 2013/2014 year which focused on the work programme Service Delivery, as applied to the Accident Compensation Corporation.

Whilst Controller and Auditor-General, Lyn Provost, confirmed in her overview dated 28 October 2014, that was released publicly with the referred publication, that and I quote;

"The theme for my Office’s 2013/14 work programme is Service delivery. As part of
that theme, my staff audited cases that were managed in ACC’s local offices. We
looked at those claims (which add up to about 4% of ACC’s 1.7 million claims each
year) because they can involve the most expensive injuries and injuries that have
a substantial permanent effect on people’s lives (for example, traumatic brain or
spinal injuries). More than 40,000 New Zealanders have one of these claims at any
point in time."

It would be greatly welcomed if you would provide me with the dates, within the Office of the Controller and Auditor-General 2013/2014 year that the audit/investigations of ACC first commenced and also the date that the audit/investigations of ACC wound up.

Under s16(2) of the Official Information Act, my preferred way of receiving a response is by email to the address from which ACC received the original request, not by post.

I thank you for your time and assistance.

Yours faithfully,

David Lawson

Dear Mike Heine,

Thanks for your response Mike together with the information, which is really appreciated.

I am returning to you in the hope that you are in the position to also confirm to me the dates to the nearest months for each of the Audits with which the actual, physical information gathering, be it receipt of written information, visits to an ACC branch, telephone conversations were completed, to allow for the collation of data and information ready for the actual audit to commence and then obviously down the track have been released.

Also, since ACC are a state owned asset, can you confirm as to whether prior to release of the two Audits whether ACC would have been provided a copy of each Audit prior to public release to sign, to verify their acceptance of the Audit, and obviously have had the chance to seek corrections to fact, and confirm the accuracy of the information due for public release also addressing any omissions of salient information.

Thanks again Mike.
Yours sincerely,

David Lawson

Dear Mike Heine,

Champion thanks Mike...truly appreciate your assistance.

Kind regards,

David Lawson

Dear Mike Heine,

I appreciate your recent help and it has just occurred to me that I have forgotten to ask you to confirm for me the following:-

When the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) undertakes an investigation/audit of a state department, such as in the cases you have kindly responded to re ACC, does the OAG provide the audited government department a period of grace to be able to review the material due to be published so as the government department concerned has the opportunity to be able to correct any errors and or omissions of fact, and comment on the accuracy of the information due to be released?

If so are you able to establish whether ACC was afforded this opportunity with respect to each audit, along with the confirmation that a representative from ACC undertook such checks prior to release of these two audits.

Thanks again for your time and assistance.

Kind regards,
David Lawson

Yours sincerely,

David Lawson