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Agenda for Cabinet Meeting of 23 July 2018

Simon Ewing-Jarvie made this Official Information request to Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

The request was refused by Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.

From: Simon Ewing-Jarvie

Dear Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet,

I request a copy of the Agenda for the Cabinet Meeting held on 23 July 2018.

I also request a copy of the Cabinet Paper presented at the same meeting relating to the extension of mandate for New Zealand Defence Force personnel deployed as part of the Multinational Force and Observers in Sinai, Egypt.

Yours faithfully,

Simon Ewing-Jarvie

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From: Information [DPMC]
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

[IN-CONFIDENCE]

Kia ora,

Thank you for your request under the Official Information Act 1982 which was received on 24 July 2018, 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.

Ngā mihi,
Anna.

Ministerial Coordinator
Office of the Chief Executive
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

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From: Anna Fleming [DPMC]
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

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Dear Simon

In response to your request for official information, please find attached a letter from Michael Webster, Secretary of the Cabinet.

Kind regards

Anna Fleming
Cabinet Office
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

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Simon Ewing-Jarvie left an annotation ()

I have referred the decision by DPMC to not release the Cabinet agenda to the Ombudsman. I've done this on the basis that I contest the quoted 'long held view by the Cabinet Office.' I believe it has no basis in law on the grounds that the Cabinet agenda only lists what is to be discussed in the most general terms and reveals no content that would affect collective responsibility i.e. the Cabinet Papers themselves. At post-Cabinet press conferences, the Prime Minister frequently lists matters as having been discussed making any secrecy about the actual agenda document irrelevant.

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From: Thomas Raethel

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Dear Simon Ewing-Jarvie

Please find attached a response to your Official Information Act request,
partially transferred to the Office of Rt Hon Winston Peters on 7 August
2018.

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 Disarmament and Arms Control | Minister for State Owned
Enterprises  l  Minister for Racing l 
[1][email address]  l  7.4 Executive Wing, Parliament
Buildings, 6160  Wellington l [2]www.beehive.govt.nz

 

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