KPMG Gambling Outcomes Report
AMasters made this Official Information request to Minister of Health
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From: AMasters
Dear Minister of Health,
I refer you to my previous request with the same summary title to the Ministry of Health. The Ministry provided a partial response to my request. However, due to a block put in place by the Ministry for this website, I am sending this follow-up request to you.
Under the Official Information Act I request responses to the following questions:
1. Does the Minister consider the large amount of public money (almost three-quarters of a million dollars) spent on the two KPMG outcomes reports an example of good value for money?
2. The Ministry has advised that one of the KPMG outcomes report for 2012/2013 was not completed and will not be published. Was the full contracted amount paid out to KPMG for this incomplete report? if yes, then why? Please provide all email and other correspondence on this decision to pay KPMG for the incomplete report if in fact this was the case. Please provide the date on which the final payment was made.
3. Were there any benefits to problem gamblers as a result of the two KPMG outcomes reports? if yes, please provide all correspondence and documentation relating to these improvements.
4. The Ministry of Health has stated that the reason for the second KPMG outcomes report 2012/2013 not being completed was due to a judicial review of procurement of problem gambling services. Was KPMG involved in this judicial review?
5. Were there any practical benefits to problem gamblers and their families from the two KPMG Outcomes reports? If yes please provide all correspondence and documentation, including dates of when these benefits or improvements occurred and a description of these improvements and benefits.
Yours faithfully,
AMasters
From: Melissa Buckle
Dear A Masters
On behalf of Hon Dr Jonathan Coleman, Minister of Health, thank you for your email received 18 March 2017 requesting under the Official Information Act 1982 answers to the following questions:
1. Does the Minister consider the large amount of public money (almost three-quarters of a million dollars) spent on the two KPMG outcomes reports an example of good value for money?
2. The Ministry has advised that one of the KPMG outcomes report for 2012/2013 was not completed and will not be published. Was the full contracted amount paid out to KPMG for this incomplete report? if yes, then why? Please provide all email and other correspondence on this decision to pay KPMG for the incomplete report if in fact this was the case. Please provide the date on which the final payment was made.
3. Were there any benefits to problem gamblers as a result of the two KPMG outcomes reports? if yes, please provide all correspondence and documentation relating to these improvements.
4. The Ministry of Health has stated that the reason for the second KPMG outcomes report 2012/2013 not being completed was due to a judicial review of procurement of problem gambling services. Was KPMG involved in this judicial review?
5. Were there any practical benefits to problem gamblers and their families from the two KPMG Outcomes reports? If yes please provide all correspondence and documentation, including dates of when these benefits or improvements occurred and a description of these improvements and benefits.
The information requested appears to be more closely associated with the functions and responsibilities of the Associate Minister of Health, Hon Peter Dunne. Accordingly, I am transferring your request to that office, under section 14 (b) (ii) of the Official Information Act 1982.
Melissa Buckle
Private Secretary – Health
Office of the Hon Dr Jonathan Coleman
Minister of Health, Minister for Sport and Recreation
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From: Adrian Portis
Please find attached a response to your recent request under the Official Information Act 1982.
Regards
Adrian Portis | Senior Health Advisor
Office of Hon Peter Dunne | Associate Minister of Health
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From: AMasters
Dear Adrian Portis,
Thank you for your partial response to my request for information under the Official Information Act. However, the response does not adequately address the questions I raised and does not appropriately fulfill my request for information. Indeed, there are apparent contradictions between your latest response dated 26 April 2017 and an earlier response under the Act provided by a Ministry of Health official (dated 31 Jan 2017). This is very concerning. Please directly answer my questions below put forward in my request dated 21 March 2017.
1. Does the Minister consider the large amount of public money (almost three-quarters of a million dollars) spent on the two KPMG outcomes reports an example of good value for money?
2. Were there any practical benefits to problem gamblers and their families from the two KPMG Outcomes reports? If yes please provide all correspondence and documentation, including dates of when these benefits or improvements occurred and a description of these improvements and benefits.
There is a strong public interest in these matters and a full disclosure is required. A total of $135,000 of public funding has been paid out to KPMG for a report that the Assoc. Minister and the Ministry of Health have stated will not be published.
3. Therefore please explain why the 2012/13 KPMG Outcomes report will not be published?
Your latest response dated 26 April 2017 states that the 2012/13 KPMG Outcomes report will not be published by the Ministry. Your response also states that KPMG was paid the full amount for the 2012/13 Outcomes report.
4. Therefore please explain why the 2012/13 KPMG Outcomes report has not been published?
Information provided under the Act by a Ministry of Health official (dated 31 Jan 2017) Richard Taylor states that the 2012/13 KPMG Outcomes report was only completed in draft form. However in your latest response dated 26 April 2017 you state that the final contracted deliverable was completed by KPMG. These statements do not appear to be reconcilable.
5. Were KPMG only contracted to complete a draft 2012/13 Outcomes report?
Mr Taylor also states that there was a considerable delay in publishing the 2012/13 KPMG Outcomes report because of a judicial review process. However, your latest response dated 26 April 2017 states that KPMG were not involved in this judicial review. Once again, these statements do not appear to be reconcilable.
6. Therefore please explain why there was a considerable delay in the completion of the 2012/13 KPMG Outcomes report?
7. You state in your latest response that elements of the unpublished 2011/12 KPMG Outcomes report informed future progress. Please specify what these elements were and how they informed future progress?
Yours sincerely,
AMasters
Minister of Health
Dear A Masters,
Please find attached a response to your email regarding questions on the
KPMG Outcomes Report.
Nga mihi,
Amy Feng
Team Administrator | Service Commissioning | Ministry of Health
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From: AMasters
Dear Minister of Health,
Thank you for your response. I now formally request under the Official Information Act a copy of the final report for the 2011/12 KPMG Outcomes report.
Yours faithfully,
AMasters
From: AMasters
Dear Minister of Health,
I now formally request under the Official Information Act a copy of the final version of the 2012/13 KPMG Outcomes report.
Yours faithfully,
AMasters
From: Melissa Buckle
Dear A Masters
On behalf of Hon Dr Jonathan Coleman, Minister of Health, thank you for your email received 29 August 2017 requesting under the Official Information Act 1982:
a copy of the final report for the 2011/12 KPMG Outcomes report
You can expect a reply within 20 working days from the date of your email being received in this office. Please note that a working day is defined under the Act as “any day of the week other than a Saturday or Sunday, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Anzac Day, Labour Day, the Sovereign’s birthday, Waitangi Day and a day in the period commencing 25 December and ending 15 January the following year.
If a large amount of information has been requested or if further consultation is required to make a decision, we may need to extend this date (this is provided for in section 15A of the Act). We will advise you if such an extension is necessary.
Kind regards,
Melissa Buckle
Private Secretary (Admin) I Office of the Hon Dr Jonathan Coleman
Minister of Health, Minister for Sport and Recreation
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From: Melissa Buckle
Dear A Masters
On behalf of Hon Dr Jonathan Coleman, Minister of Health, thank you for your email received 29 August 2017 requesting under the Official Information Act 1982:
A copy of the final version of the 2012/13 KPMG Outcomes report
You can expect a reply within 20 working days from the date of your email being received in this office. Please note that a working day is defined under the Act as “any day of the week other than a Saturday or Sunday, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Anzac Day, Labour Day, the Sovereign’s birthday, Waitangi Day and a day in the period commencing 25 December and ending 15 January the following year.
If a large amount of information has been requested or if further consultation is required to make a decision, we may need to extend this date (this is provided for in section 15A of the Act). We will advise you if such an extension is necessary.
Kind regards,
Melissa Buckle
Private Secretary (Admin) I Office of the Hon Dr Jonathan Coleman
Minister of Health, Minister for Sport and Recreation
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From: Melissa Buckle
Dear A Masters
I’ve been advised that the information requested below appears to be more
closely associated with the functions and responsibilities of the Ministry
of Health:
A copy of the final report for the 2011/12 KPMG Outcomes report, and;
A copy of the final version of the 2012/13 KPMG Outcomes report
Accordingly, I am transferring your request to the Director-General of
Health and Chief Executive of the Ministry of Health, Chai Chuah, under
section 14 (b) (ii) of the Official Information Act 1982.
You can expect a response from the Ministry shortly.
Melissa Buckle
Private Secretary – Health
Office of the Hon Dr Jonathan Coleman
Minister of Health, Minister for Sport and Recreation
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Dear A Masters,
Please see attached the response to your request for Official Information.
Kind regards,
Amy Feng
Team Administrator | Service Commissioning | Ministry of Health
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