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Request for Official Information in relation to ACC's contracts with Auckland-based private investigation firm Thompson and Clark

David Lawson made this Official Information request to Accident Compensation Corporation

The request was successful.

From: David Lawson

Dear Accident Compensation Corporation,

I am writing to request the provision of the following official information in relation to the Corporation's use of Auckland-based private investigation firm Thompson and Clark for investigative purposes.

Request 1)

Please confirm how many individual contract/s have been annually (1 July through 30 June) awarded to Auckland-based private investigation firm Thompson and Clark by the Accident Compensation Corporation for investigative purposes for the years ending for each consecutive year between the period 1 July 1999 and 30 June 2008.

Request 2)

If Auckland-based private investigation firm Thompson and Clark held a master contract with ACC through any of the years referred to in Request 1) above for investigative purposes please confirm on an annual basis the number of actual individual jobs invoiced by Thompson and Clark to ACC for each consecutive year between the period 1 July 1999 and 30 June 2008.

Request 3)

Please confirm the total amount paid/remitted annually (1 July through 30 June) by the Accident Compensation Corporation to Auckland-based private investigation firm Thompson and Clark for investigative purposes for the years ending for each consecutive year between the period 1 July 1999 and 30 June 2008.

Request 4)

Please confirm how many individual contract/s have been annually (1 July through 30 June) awarded by the Accident Compensation Corporation to Auckland-based private investigation firm Thompson and Clark for investigative purposes for the years ending for each consecutive year between the period 1 July 2008 and present.

Request 5)

If Auckland-based private investigation firm Thompson and Clark held a master contract with ACC for investigative purposes through any of the years referred to in Request 4) above, please confirm on an annual basis the number of actual individual jobs invoiced by Thompson and Clark to ACC for each consecutive year between the period 1 July 2008 and present.

Request 6)

Please confirm the total amount paid/remitted annually (1 July through 30 June) by the Accident Compensation Corporation to Auckland-based private investigation firm Thompson and Clark for investigative purposes for the years ending for each consecutive year between the period 1 July 2008 and present.

I thank you for your time and assistance and advise that 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.

Yours faithfully,

David Lawson

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Accident Compensation Corporation

Dear Mr Lawson

 

Thank you for your email of 22 June 2018, requesting the following
information:

 

 1. Please confirm how many individual contract/s have been annually (1
July through 30 June) awarded to Auckland-based private investigation
firm Thompson and Clark by the Accident Compensation Corporation for
investigative purposes for the years ending for each consecutive year
between the period 1 July 1999 and 30 June 2008.

 

 2. If Auckland-based private investigation firm Thompson and Clark held a
master contract with ACC through any of the years referred to in
Request 1) above for investigative purposes please confirm on an
annual basis the number of actual individual jobs invoiced by Thompson
and Clark to ACC for each consecutive year between the period 1 July
1999 and 30 June 2008.

 

 3. Please confirm the total amount paid/remitted  annually (1 July
through 30 June) by the Accident Compensation Corporation to
Auckland-based private investigation firm Thompson and Clark for
investigative purposes for the years ending for each consecutive year
between the period 1 July 1999 and 30 June 2008.

 

 4. Please confirm how many individual contract/s have been annually (1
July through 30 June) awarded by the Accident Compensation Corporation
to Auckland-based private investigation firm Thompson and Clark for
investigative purposes for the years ending for each consecutive year
between the period 1 July 2008 and present.

 

 5. If Auckland-based private investigation firm Thompson and Clark held a
master contract with ACC for investigative purposes through any of the
years referred to in Request 4) above,  please confirm on an annual
basis the number of actual individual jobs invoiced by Thompson and
Clark to ACC for each consecutive year between the period 1 July 2008
and present.

 

 6. Please confirm the total amount paid/remitted  annually (1 July
through 30 June) by the Accident Compensation Corporation  to
Auckland-based private investigation firm Thompson and Clark for
investigative purposes for the years ending for each consecutive year
between the period 1 July 2008 and present.

 

This email is to inform you that we are working on your request and will
be in touch with you as soon as possible, and certainly by 20 July 2018.

 

In the meantime, if you have any questions we will be happy to work with
you to resolve these. We can be contacted by email at [email address]

 

Kind regards

Government Engagement and Support

 

 
   
 

 

 

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Dear Mr Lawson

 

Please find attached our response to your request for information, dated
22 June 2018.

 

Yours sincerely

Government Engagement and Support

 

 
   
 

 

 

Disclaimer:

"This message and any attachments may contain confidential and privileged
information. If you believe you have received this email in error, please
advise us immediately by return email or telephone and then delete this
email together with all attachments. If you are not the intended
recipient, you are not authorised to use or copy this message or any
attachments or disclose the contents to any other person."

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