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Good morning Mr Ecclestone,

 

Please see the attached letter regarding your Official Information Act
request.

 

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Good afternoon Mr Ecclestone,

 

Acknowledging receipt of your OIA request relating to the Sustainable
Development Goal (SDG) 16.10.2, transferred from Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and Trade, to the Ministry of Justice on 29 August 2018.

 

We have passed this to the relevant unit and you can expect a response on
or before 26 September 2018.

 

Kind regards,

   

[1]http://www.justice.govt.nz/courts/shared... Alex Pickard
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-----Original Message-----

From: Andrew Ecclestone
[[2]mailto:[FOI #8505 email]]

Sent: Wednesday, 15 August 2018 6:12 p.m.

To: ENQUIRIES

Subject: Official Information request - NZ government work to assess and
report on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16.10.2

 

Dear Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade,

 

Background

In 2015, the United Nations, including New Zealand, signed up to the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

 

SDG 16 is to "Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable
development, provide access to justice for all and build effective,
accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels"
([3]https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sd...)

 

Within SDG 16 is target 16.10, "Ensure public access to information and
protect fundamental freedoms, in accordance with national legislation and
international agreements."

 

One of the designated indicators is SDG 16.10.2, "Number of countries that
adopt and implement constitutional, statutory and/or policy guarantees for
public access to information."

 

OIA Request

Under the OIA, I would like to request:

 

(a) a copy of all reports (including briefings/aide memoire etc) produced
for officials or Ministers on SDG 16.10.2;

 

(b) any reports on efforts made to assess and report on implementation of
SDG 16.10.2; and

 

(c) any correspondence (including emails) and notes of meetings with
officials in other departments (most likely, but not limited to, Treasury
and Statistics NZ) on how progress on SDG 16.10.2 may be incorporated in
to 'Indicators Aotearoa New Zealand' and/or 'The Living Standards
Framework'.

 

If any of this information is not recorded in writing, please make and
supply me with a written note of the information on this topic known to
Ministry officials, as the Ombudsmen have made clear that that
'information held' by a department includes unrecorded information held by
officials in their heads.

 

As per section 16 of the OIA, I would like to receive this information as
electronic attachments to your email responding to this request. Also as
per section 16, my preference is to receive any documents in the native
file format in which they were created and are held by the Ministry,
rather than rasterised/image-only PDF files.

 

If you decide that any part of the OIA provides a ground for withholding
information when you respond to this request, please could you - as per
section 19(a) of the OIA - provide details of the reasons in support of
those grounds, including the public interest factors considered by the
Ministry under section 9(1).

 

In addition, in the event that the Ministry decides that there is reason
under the OIA to withhold some information in full, please provide me with
a list of all the documents it has determined fall within the scope of my
request.

 

Finally, when responding to these requests, please could you provide me
with a list of the search terms used by Ministry officials when searching
for information within the scope of the requests detailed above.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Andrew Ecclestone

 

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Good morning Andrew

 

Please find attached a response to your OIA request regarding sustainable
development goal 16.

 

Regards

 

Antony

 

 

 

   

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