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Marsden Fund

Gael Wright made this Official Information request to Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment

The request was refused by Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment.

From: Gael Wright

Dear Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment,

Re: Marsden Fund (administered by the Royal Society)

Please make available the following information.

All minutes of all Grant Assessment Committee meetings for the last 5 years. There should be no redaction of identities as these are minutes of meetings of an official public body.

All scores of all grant applications for the last 5 years. This should include scores at each stage of the assessment (including, panel scoring at each stage (by individual if possible) and reviewer scores) and final outcome. While it is appreciated that reviewer identities might want to be protected it would be preferable if all applicant information and committee member information is provided (for the purposes of statistical analysis). Certainly panelist identities should be provided as they are acting as public servants.

In particular, we refer MBIE to Section 6 of the Offical Information Act '...information shall be made available unless there is good reason for withholding it' and we see no "good reason" for any of this information to be withheld from public scrutiny.
Yours faithfully,

Gael Wright

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Ref: DOIA 1718-0003

 

Dear Ms Wright

 

On behalf of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment I
acknowledge your email of 1 July 2017 requesting under the Official
Information Act 1982 (the Act), the following:

 

All minutes of all Grant Assessment Committee meetings for the last 5
years.

 

There should be no redaction of identities as these are minutes of
meetings of an official public body. All scores of all grant applications
for the last 5 years.

 

This should include scores at each stage of the assessment (including,
panel scoring at each stage (by individual if possible) and reviewer
scores) and final outcome.

 

While it is appreciated that reviewer identities might want to be
protected it would be preferable if all applicant information and
committee member information is provided (for the purposes of statistical
analysis). Certainly panelist identities should be provided as they are
acting as public servants.

 

In particular, we refer MBIE to Section 6 of the Offical Information Act
'...information shall be made available unless there is good reason for
withholding it' and we see no "good reason" for any of this information to
be withheld from public scrutiny.

 

Your request is being processed in accordance with the Act and a response
will be sent to you in due course. If you have any enquiries regarding
your request feel free to contact us via email [1][MBIE request email] or
using the contact details below.

 

 

Yours sincerely,

Alan Witcombe

MANAGER, MINISTERIAL SERVICES

 

Corporate, Governance and Information

Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment

Level 4, 15 Stout Street, PO Box 1473, Wellington 6140

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Dear Ms Wright

 

Please find attached a letter in regards to your Official Information Act
request dated 1 July 2017.

 

Kind regards,

 

MINISTERIAL ADVISOR

 

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From: Gael Wright

Note following reply was sent to MBIE via email on 13th July as requested. I have received no reply or acknowledgement of this reply. As such I am re-posting here to make sure my response is documented in public record. Email below...

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Dear *OIA,

Thank you for your recent reply to my FOI request. I appreciate that it is a large amount of data that has been requested - and could potentially take sometime to collate.

Please omit the minutes at this stage.

I presume however that there must be spreadsheets or a database where grant scoring information is stored. I presume its not a database then - as in that case a reasonably simple database look up would produce all the records requested.

Instead, can you make all the spreadsheets where these data is held available. This should not take too much work.

Kind Regards,

Gael

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Dear Ms Wright

 

Please find attached a letter in regards to your Official Information Act
request dated 1 July 2017.

 

Kind regards,

 

MINISTERIAL ADVISOR

 

Ministerial Services

Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment

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Dear Ms Wright

 

Please find attached a letter in regards to your Official Information Act
request dated 1 July 2017.

 

Kind regards,

 

Ministerial Services

Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment

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