Briefings to incoming ministers
Stephen Davis made this Official Information request to Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
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From: Stephen Davis
Dear Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet,
I request all the Briefings to Incoming Ministers and the Briefing to the Incoming Government, for the ministry sworn in this October.
Yours faithfully,
Stephen Davis
From: Information [DPMC]
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
Tēnā koe Stephen
Thank you for your request under the Official Information Act 1982 which was received on 3 November 2017, copied below. A response will be provided in accordance with the Act.
The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC) may publish the response to your Official Information Act (OIA) request.
When you are provided with a response to this request, you will be informed about whether the response to your OIA request will be published. If DPMC does publish the response to your OIA request, personal information, including your name and contact details, will be removed.
Kind regards
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From: Caroline Armstrong
Dear Stephen,
On behalf of Rt Hon Winston Peters, Deputy Prime Minister, I acknowledge
receipt of your OIA request email dated 3/11/2017. Your correspondence
has been placed before the Minister for his consideration.
Thank you again for writing.
Kind Regards,
Caroline Armstrong I Roving Private Secretary
Office of Rt Hon Winston Peters
Deputy Prime Minister I Minister of Foreign Affairs
Minister for State Owned Enterprises I Minister for Racing
L7.4 Executive Wing I Parliament Buildings I Wellington I New
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From: John Sutherland
Hi Stephen,
The Hon Chris Hipkins, Minister of Education, has asked me to acknowledge your request of 3 November 2017, for information under the Official information Act 1982, as follows:
Request all the Briefings to Incoming Ministers and the Briefing to the Incoming Government, for the ministry sworn in this October.
The Minister is considering your request and you can expect a response by 27 November 2017.
Yours sincerely
John Sutherland | Private Secretary - Education | Office of Hon Chris Hipkins
Minister of Education
Parliament Buildings, Private Bag 18041, Wellington 6160, New Zealand
T: 04 817 9304 | M: 027 539 7145 | F: 04 817 6529
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From: Rebecca Tane
Hello Stephen Davis,
I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your official information request
dated 3 November 2017 for all briefing s to the incoming Minister.
We received your request on 13 November 2017 and we will endeavour to
respond to your request as soon as possible and in any event no later than
11 December 2017 being 20 working days after the day your request was
received. If we are unable to respond to your request by then, we will
notify you of an extension of that timeframe.
If any additional factors come to light which are relevant to your
request, please do not hesitate to contact us so that these can be taken
into account.
Regards,
Rebecca Tane | Senior Private Secretary
Office of Hon Kelvin Davis| Minister of Corrections| Minister for
Crown/Māori Relations| Minister of Tourism| Associate Minister of
Education (Māori Education)
DDI +64 4 817 9495 | Mobile +64 21 941 604 | Email
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From: Hon. Dr Megan Woods
Dear Mr Davis
Official information request for Briefings to Incoming Ministers
I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your official information request
dated 3 November 2017 for Briefings to Incoming Ministers, relevant to the
portfolios of Hon Dr Megan Woods.
We received your request on 13 November 2017 from the Department of the
Prime Minister and Cabinet. We will endeavour to respond to your request
as soon as possible and in any event no later than 11 December 2017, being
20 working days after the day your request was received. If we are unable
to respond to your request by then, we will notify you of an extension of
that timeframe.
Yours sincerely
I Holmes | Roving Private Secretary (Administration)
Office of Hon Dr Megan Woods
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From: Christina Connolly
Dear Mr Davis,
I am writing to confirm the transfer of your Official Information Act request for all Briefings to Incoming Ministers on behalf of Minister of State Services, Hon Chris Hipkins.
If you have any queries, please feel free to contact Ministerial Services at [email address] If any additional factors come to light which are relevant to your request, please do not hesitate to contact us so that these can be taken into account.
Our letter notifying you of our decision on your request will confirm if we intend to publish the letter (with your personal details removed) and any related documents on the State Services Commission’s website.
Best Wishes
Christina
Christina Connolly | Private Secretary| Office of the Minister of State Services, Hon Chris Hipkins
6.3 Executive Wing, Parliament Buildings, Wellington
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Luke C left an annotation ()
I am really surprised and dismayed that the DPMC, as a central agency, has not sought to co-ordinate the collation of the BIMS from the Ministers' offices. It would make more sense for the DPMC to collect these on your behalf (and the public's behalf) and publish them to the www.beehive.govt.nz website.
I don't think it is a good use of public resources for the DPMC to transfer your request to ALL ministers' offices, of which there are many, to have each individual ministerial office reply to you.
Anne Shaw is technically correct, in that each BIM is more closely connected to each minister. But its embarrassing that she does not want to take the lead to co-ordinate this OIA request. She doesn't even mention anything there about DPMC's role as a central agency.
If this was me, I'd go back to Anne Shaw explaining this logic.
From: Gina Anderson-Lister
Dear Mr Davis
Please find attached a response to your request for official information.
Kind regards
Gina Anderson-Lister
Health Private Secretary
Office of Hon Dr David Clark
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From: OIA_Requests (MVCOT)
Dear Stephen,
I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your Official Information request
dated 15 November 2017 for Briefings to Incoming Ministers and the
Briefing to the Incoming Government.
We received your request on 15 November 2017. We will endeavour to respond
to your request as soon as possible and in any event no later than 13
December 2017, being 20 working days after the day your request was
received. If we are unable to respond to your request by then, we will
notify you of an extension of that timeframe.
If you have any queries, please contact the Ministerial Support team on
[1][email address].
Kind regards
Ministerial Support
PO Box 546, Wellington 6140
* E: [2]ot [email address]
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From: Larissa Anderson
Dear Mr Davis
On behalf of Hon Stuart Nash, Minister of Revenue, we have received your
email requesting, under the Official Information Act 1982:
“…all the Briefings to Incoming Ministers and the Briefing to the Incoming
Government, for the ministry sworn in this October”.
Your request is declined under section 18(d) of the Official Information
Act 1982 “that the information requested is or will soon be publicly
available.” The briefings will be released to the Beehive website in the
coming weeks.
You have the right to ask the Ombudsman to investigate this decision.
Kind regards
Catherine Pantling
Senior Private Secretary to Hon. Stuart Nash
Minister of Police, Fisheries, Revenue and for Small Business
19R Bowen House | Private Bag 18041 | Parliament Buildings | Wellington
6160 | New Zealand
DDI: 04 817 9578 l [mobile number]
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Stephen Davis left an annotation ()
"Your request is declined under section 18(d) of the Official Information
Act 1982 “that the information requested is or will soon be publicly
available.” The briefings will be released to the Beehive website in the
coming weeks."
Which is exactly the point of making the request: the briefings have already been made and given to ministers. There's no reason to delay their publication for a month or so like this.
From: Shelly Rangihuna-Vlietstra
Tena koe Stephen
See attached letter on behalf of Hon Eugenie Sage.
Nga mihi
[1]Crest Office of Hon Eugenie Sage
Minister of Conservation | Minister for Land Information |
Associate Minister for the Environment
6R Bowen House, Parliament Buildings | Private Bag 18041 |
Wellington 6160 | New Zealand
P: 04 817 8727
E: [2][email address]
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Luke C left an annotation ()
First DPMC shunts your request to every ministerial office, then those offices say the BIMS are going to be centrally published on www.beehive.govt.nz. It's all a bit disorganised.
I agree that they could provide you with a copy of the BIM now, in addition to publishing it on the Beehive website at a future point. That makes sense, enhances participatory democracy, and acts in the spirit of the OIA which is to release information unless there is good reason not to. However as the law currently stands, they are permitted to refuse the information if it is about to be publicly released.
It would be interesting to know who in the executive government asked the ministers offices for their BIMs for www.beehive.govt.nz. Seems like there is someone coordinating this effort now.
Luke C left an annotation ()
Seems like the issue of not providing BIMs because they are about to be released publicly has also been published in the newspaper:
https://twitter.com/bryce_edwards/status...
From: Thomas Fleming
Tçnâ koe Stephen
On behalf of the Hon Peeni Henare, please find attached the Minister’s
response to your Official Information Act request received 13 November
2017.
Ngâ mihi
Thomas
Thomas Fleming
Private Secretary | Office of Hon Peeni Henare
Minister for Whânau Ora | Minister for Youth | Minister for the Community
& Voluntary Sector
Associate Minister for Social Development | Member of Parliament for
Tâmaki Makaurau
DDI: 04 817 8341| Ext: 8341| [mobile number]
Private Bag 18041, Parliament Buildings, Wellington 6160, New Zealand
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From: Claire Owens
Dear Stephen,
Please see the attached response to your OIA request for the BIM provided
to the Associate Minister of Immigration.
Kind regards,
Claire Owens
Private Secretary (Associate Immigration)
Office of Hon Kris Faafoi
Private Bag 18041 | Parliament Buildings | Wellington 6160 | New Zealand
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From: Jarrod Williams
Dear Mr Davis,
On behalf of Minister Shaw, please find attached the response to your OIA request dated 3 November 2017.
Kind regards,
Jarrod Williams
Private Secretary (Statistics) - Acting
Office of Hon James Shaw
DDI: +64 4 817 8882 | Mobile: +64 21 731 316| E: [email address]
Parliament Buildings, Private Bag 18041, Wellington | www.beehive.govt.nz
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From: Stuart Baker
Dear Mr Davis,
On behalf of Minister Genter, thank you for your request of November 3rd requesting: Briefings to the Incoming Ministers.
Your request is declined under section 18(d) of the Official Information Act 1982 “that the information requested is or will soon be publicly available.” The briefings will be released to the Beehive website in the coming weeks.
You have the right to ask the Ombudsman to investigate my decision.
Yours sincerely
Ngā mihi
Nā Stuart
Stuart Baker | Private Secretary Executive
Office of Hon Genter| Minister for Women | Associate Transport | Associate Health
6.09 Bowen House, Parliament Buildings, 80 Lambton Quay | Private Bag 18041 | Wellington 6160 | New Zealand
P: 04 817 6582
E: [email address]
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From: Elizabeth Miles
Good afternoon Mr Davis,
Please find attached a reply to your OIA request to the Office of Hon Damien O'Connor.
Kind regards,
Elizabeth
Elizabeth Miles
Private Secretary (Executive Support) to Hon Damien O’Connor
Minister of Agriculture|
Minister for Biosecurity Food Safety and Rural Communities |
Associate Minister for Trade and Export Growth |
MP for West Coast/Tasman |
Private Bag 18 888, Parliament Buildings | Wellington |
ph +64 4 817 8715 |
[email address] | www.labour.org.nz |
Authorised by Hon Damien O’Connor, Parliament Buildings, Wellington
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Luke C left an annotation ()
What a waste of time it is for these private secretaries to have to respond to you.
From: Rebecca Tane
Hello Stephen,
Please find attached the response to your Official Information request of
13 November 2017.
Regards,
Rebecca Tane | Senior Private Secretary
Office of Hon Kelvin Davis| Minister of Corrections| Minister for
Crown/Māori Relations| Minister of Tourism| Associate Minister of
Education (Māori Education)
7.040 EW I DDI +64 4 817 9495 | Mobile +64 21 941 604 | Email
[1][email address]
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From: Jason Hewett
Dear Mr Davis
Please find attached your response to your OIA request below that was transferred to us from the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet.
Kind Regards
Jason Hewett
Private Secretary for the Minister of Internal Affairs
Hon Tracey Martin
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From: Thomas Raethel
Dear Mr Davis,
Attached is a response to your Official Information Act request received
on 3 November 2017.
Yours sincerely,
Thomas Raethel l Ministerial Advisor l Rt Hon Winston Peters | Deputy
Prime Minister | Leader New Zealand First | Minister of Foreign Affairs
l Minister for State Owned Enterprises l Minister for Racing | P: +64
21 822 314 l [1][email address] l 7.4 Executive Wing,
Parliament Buildings, 6160 Wellington l [2]www.beehive.govt.nz
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From: Brad Christensen
Kia Ora Stephen
Thank you for your request on 3 November 2017 for the following
information under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act):
· All briefings to Incoming Ministers and the Briefing to the
Incoming Government, for the ministry sworn in this October.
Your request was transferred under section 14 of the Official Information
Act (the Act) to Hon Tracey Martin, in her capacity as Minister for
Children.
Attached is the response to your request.
You have the right to seek an investigation and review of this decision to
transfer your request by the Ombudsman. Information about how to make a
complaint is available at [1]www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or 0800 802 602.
Nga Mihi
Brad Christensen | Private Secretary – Oranga Tamariki | Office of Hon
Tracey Martin
Minister for Children | Minister for Seniors | Minister of Internal
Affairs | Associate Minister of Education
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From: John Sutherland
Hi Stephen,
As you may be aware the Ministry of Education is currently preparing the
Briefing to the Incoming Minister (BIM) for release on our website. As
such I am refusing your request for this document under section 18(d) of
the Official Information Act as the information you have requested will
soon be publicly available.
As soon as it has been published, I will get in touch with you to let you
know where you can find the document. Let me know if there is anything
else I can do to help in the meantime.
Under section 28(3) of the Act, you have the right to refer this response
to an Ombudsman. You can do this by writing to
[1][email address].
Kind regards,
John
John Sutherland | Private Secretary - Education | Office of Hon Chris
Hipkins
Minister of Education
Parliament Buildings, Private Bag 18041, Wellington 6160, New Zealand
T: 04 817 9304 | M: 027 539 7145 | F: 04 817 6529
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From: Hon Grant Robertson
Katy Greco-Ainslie
Private Secretary to Hon Grant Robertson
Minister of Finance
Minister for Sport and Recreation
Associate Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage
MP for Wellington Central
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From: Elena Scheule
Dear Mr Davis
Please see letter attached from Hon Clare Curran in response to your letter of 3 November 2017.
Kind regards
Elena
Elena Scheule
Senior Private Secretary
Office of Hon Clare Curran
Minister of Broadcasting, Communications and Digital Media, Government Digital Services
Associate Minister of State Services (Open Government) and ACC
Tel: 04-817 6683 | [mobile number]-520 215| Room 4.5L Executive Wing | Private Bag 18 888|Parliament Buildings|Wellington 6160
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Stephen Davis left an annotation ()
@Nicholas Lee
> I wonder if any of them will miss the deadline.
I guess in principle I should check so I know when to update the status of this request to "refused".
Nicholas Lee left an annotation ()
Isn't that the responsibility of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet? Since you made the request to them and they forwarded to all the Ministries.
From: Stephen Tat
Dear Mr Davis
Please find attached a letter from Hon Kris Faafoi, Minister of Commerce
and Consumer Affairs.
Kind regards
Stephen Tat I Private Secretary – Commerce and Consumer Affairs I Office
of Hon Kris Faafoi
Minister for Commerce and Consumer Affairs I Minister of Civil Defence I
Associate Minister of Immigration I Parliament Buildings, Wellington I
DDI: 04 817 9164 I [mobile number]
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From: Jo Pettitt
Dear Mr Davis
On behalf of Heather Simpson, I attach a letter in response to your OIA
request of 3^rd November 2017.
Yours sincerely
Jo Pettitt
Executive Assistant │Office of GJ Thompson, Prime Minister’s Chief of
Staff
DDI : + 64 4 817 9732 │Mobile : + 64 21 229 9436
9-038 Executive Wing, Parliament Buildings, Wellington 6011
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From: Christina Connolly
Dear Mr Davis,
Please find attached a letter of response from Hon Chris Hipkins in
relation to your OIA dated 3 November.
Best wishes
Christina
Christina Connolly | Private Secretary| Office of the Minister of State
Services, Hon Chris Hipkins
6.3 Executive Wing, Parliament Buildings, Wellington
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From: Hon Phil Twyford
Dear Mr Davis,
On behalf of Hon Phil Twyford, please find attached the response to your
OIA request, dated 11 November 2017.
Kind Regards
Office of Hon Phil Twyford
Minister of Transport |Minister of Housing and Urban Development
Private Bag 18041 | Parliament Buildings | Wellington 6160 | New Zealand
Office Phone: +64 4 817 8704 Email:
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From: Lindsay Meehan
Dear Mr Davis
Please find attached the response from the Minister for Children and Minister for Seniors to your OIA request dated 13 November 2017.
Yours sincerely
Lindsay Meehan
Private Secretary l Office of Hon Tracey Martin Minister for Children l Minister of Internal Affairs l Minister for Seniors l Associate Minister of Education
DDI +64 4 817 8347l M: +64 27 5019134 [email address]
5.3L Executive Wing Parliament Buildings Wellington
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From: Stefan Weir
Good afternoon Stephen
On behalf of Hon Kris Faafoi, Minister of Civil Defence, please see the
attached response to your OIA request transferred to this office on 13
November 2017.
Kind regards
Stefan Weir
Private Secretary Civil Defence
Hon Kris Faafoi | Minister of Civil Defence
P: 04 817 9878
[1]www.beehive.govt.nz
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From: Reubhan Swann
From: Reubhan Swann
Sent: Wednesday, 6 December 2017 12:50 PM
To: '[email address]'
<[email address]>
Subject: OIA Stephen Davis
Hi Stephen,
Please find your response from Hon Minister Aupito William Sio, regarding
your request.
Many thanks
Reubhan Swann, Private Secretary (Justice and Courts)
Office of the Honourable Aupito William Sio, Minister for Pacific Peoples,
Associate Minister of Justice; Associate Minister for Courts
Bowen House Level 11L | Private Bag 18041 | Parliament Buildings |
Wellington 6160 | New Zealand
Mob: +64 27 474 4283 | DDI: 04 817 8852 | Email:
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From: M Woods (MIN)
Dear Mr Davis
Further to your OIA request transferred to Hon Dr Megan Woods from DPMC on
13 November, please see attached response from the Minister.
Kind regards
Office of Hon Dr Megan Woods
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Stephen Davis left an annotation ()
Finally released at https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/bims...
Luke C left an annotation ()
Commonsense has prevailed and the BIMs are at https://www.beehive.govt.nz/features
From: Alani Vailahi
Good afternoon, Stephen.
Please find attached a response to your request dated 13 November 2017.
Kind regards,
'Alani Vailahi
Office of Hon Carmel Sepuloni
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From: William Blackler
Dear Mr Davis,
On behalf of Hon Shane Jones, thank you for your request of 13/11/2017
requesting:
I request all the Briefings to Incoming Ministers and the Briefing to the
Incoming Government, for the ministry sworn in this October.
Your request is declined under section 18(d) of the Official Information
Act 1982 “that the information requested is or will soon be publicly
available.” The briefings have now been released to the Beehive website.
You have the right to ask the Ombudsman to investigate my decision.
Yours sincerely,
William Blackler
Private Secretary to Hon Shane Jones
Ph +64 817 8719
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From: I Lees-Galloway (MIN)
Dear Mr Davis,
Please find attached a letter of response for your OIA request from the
Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety.
Kind regards
[1]Crest Office Hon Iain Lees-Galloway
Deputy Leader of the House |Minister of Immigration |Minister for
Workplace Relations & Safety | Minister of ACC | 4.5R, Executive
Wing |Parliament Buildings | Private Bag 18041 | Wellington 6160
| New Zealand P: 64 (4) 817 8713
Authorised by Iain Lees-Galloway, Parliament
Buildings, Wellington 6011
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How soon is "soon" for public release of official information?
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In the past, BIMs have been published to the official website of the New Zealand Government - www.beehive.govt.nz, for example:
https://www.beehive.govt.nz/feature/brie...
I would encourage the DPMC to co-ordinate the collation and publication of all Nov-Dec 2017 BIMs to www.beehive.govt.nz website.
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