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Advice to Minister of Immigration on Refugee Resettlement Strategy

M Stephens made this Official Information request to Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment

The request was partially successful.

From: M Stephens

Dear Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment,

I would like to request under the Official Information Act:

* all departmental advice to the Minister of Immigration in last 18 months on the Refugee Resettlement Strategy.

If any documents that fall within the scope of my request are to be
withheld in full then I would like the titles and dates of those
documents to be released. I would also prefer that if my request is
expansive enough to trigger a s18(f) refusal that I can be provided
with the titles/dates of the relevant documents so that I can focus
my request forwards particular documents.

Yours faithfully,

M Stephens

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From: David Smol
Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment

Thank you for your OIA requests. A response will be sent out within the required timeframes.

Regards

-----Original Message-----
From: M Stephens [mailto:[OIA #919 email]]
Sent: Monday, 10 June 2013 11:48 a.m.
To: David Smol
Subject: Official Information Act request - Advice to Minister of Immigration on Refugee Resettlement Strategy

Dear Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment,

I would like to request under the Official Information Act:

* all departmental advice to the Minister of Immigration in last 18
months on the Refugee Resettlement Strategy.

If any documents that fall within the scope of my request are to be
withheld in full then I would like the titles and dates of those
documents to be released. I would also prefer that if my request is
expansive enough to trigger a s18(f) refusal that I can be provided
with the titles/dates of the relevant documents so that I can focus
my request forwards particular documents.

Yours faithfully,

M Stephens

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From: Sandy Tuhou
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Dear M Stephens

 

Please find attached an acknowledgement to your recent OIA request.

 

 

 

Have a lovely day.

 

Sandy Tuhou
on behalf of

 

David Hammond

Team Leader

Ministerial Services

 

 

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From: Sandy Tuhou
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Dear M Stephens

 

Please find attached a transfer letter advising that your OIA request has
been transferred to the Minister of Immigration.

 

 

 

 

 

Sandy Tuhou
on behalf of

 

David Hammond

Team Leader

Ministerial Services

 

 

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From: M Stephens

Dear Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment,

Thank you for your prompt response to my OIA requests, numbered 1303287, 1303285 and 1303289. However, the Official Information Act (1982) sec 14, states that you must believe that the relevant department is 'more closely connected' to the request than your department.

My requests are very specifically asking for the advice sent from the Ministry of Immigration to the Minister of Immigration. While I appreciate that the Minister might be equally able to furnish me with this information, given that there was a new Minister about six months ago, the ability to respond is clearly more closely connected to the MInistry for Immigration.

I would like you to reconsider the decision of transferring these OIA requests.

Additionally, I do not see grounds under the OIA Act 15A (1) in either (a) or (b) to extend the time limit for a response. In each case the request is for very specific communications between the Ministry and Minister.

Yours faithfully,

M Stephens

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From: M Woodhouse

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Dear M Stephens,

 

Please find attached a response to your correspondence from the Private
Secretary of Immigration.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Lucy Hames | Ministerial Secretary | Office of Hon Michael Woodhouse
Minister of Immigration | Minister of Veterans’ Affairs | Associate
Minister of Transport
6C Bowen House, Parliament Buildings, Wellington | Tel 04 817 6836 |

 

 

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From: M Woodhouse

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Dear M Stephens,

 

Please find attached a response to your correspondence from the Private
Secretary of Immigration.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Lucy Hames | Ministerial Secretary | Office of Hon Michael Woodhouse
Minister of Immigration | Minister of Veterans’ Affairs | Associate
Minister of Transport
6C Bowen House, Parliament Buildings, Wellington | Tel 04 817 6836 |

 

 

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From: M Stephens

Dear Lauren and Minister Woodhouse,

This request was due on the 5th of August. I don't want to overburden the Ombudsman unnecessarily - can you please advise on whether you intend to respond by the end of this week Friday, 9th of August?

Yours sincerely,

M Stephens

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From: M Woodhouse

Dear correspondent,

On behalf of Hon Michael Woodhouse thank you for your email.

While your message is important, and will be carefully read and
considered, it is not possible to provide a personal response to every
email which is received. 

Where the Minister has portfolio responsibility for the issues that you
have raised, your correspondence will be considered and responded to where
appropriate.

Kind regards,
Office of Hon Michael Woodhouse
Minister of Immigration | Minister of Veterans’ Affairs | Associate
Minister of Transport
6C Bowen House, Parliament Buildings, Wellington | Tel 04 817 6836 |

 

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From: M Woodhouse

Dear M Stephens,

 

The response to your Official Information Act request for ‘all
departmental advice to the Minister of Immigration in the last 18 months
on the Refugee Resettlement Strategy’ is pending.

 

Please provide a postal address so the response can be posted to you. 
There is approximately 2 inches of paper in the response.

 

Kind regards,

 

Lucy Hames | Ministerial Secretary | Office of Hon Michael Woodhouse
Minister of Immigration | Minister of Veterans’ Affairs | Associate
Minister of Transport
6C Bowen House, Parliament Buildings, Wellington | Tel 04 817 6836 |

 

 

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From: M Stephens

Dear Lauren Deslandes and M Woodhouse,

As all points written from this fyi based account are public I am concurrently sending my address Mr Woodhouse's parlaimentary address with this email address in the subject line. If there is a better email to respond to then please forward that.

Yours sincerely,

M Stephens

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From: M Stephens

Dear M Woodhouse,

Thank you for supplying the items by post that were requested in this OIA.

There were a couple of omissions I would like to query

(1) document 26 October 2012, tracker no. 12/05390, pg. 13, (22) was excluded based on 9 (2) (j) which was described as dealing with the tender process for the Mangere rebuild however 19-23 in that document dealt with the refugee quota and not the rebuild. Perhaps there was an alternative reason for the refusal, or could this point please be released.

(2) document 10 June 2013 tracker no. 13/03130, a page seems to be missing that features points 6 and 7. No indication is given for the reason for this omision.

(3) - regarding the same document as (2) above: point 16 is omitted as out of scope of the request. Given much of the other material on health has been included, I'd like you to reconsider this omission - this is a simple process than requiring more time spent on future OIA requests.

(4) - regarding the same document as (2) above: point 17 refers to a July 2013 progress update on the implementation of the strategy that has not been included in this OIA request. Can this document also be supplied, or was this point an error and no such document exists?

Many thanks for your time.

Yours sincerely,

M Stephens

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From: M Woodhouse

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Dear M Stephens,

 

Please find attached a response to your correspondence from the Minister
of Immigration, the Hon Michael Woodhouse.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Lucy Hames | Ministerial Secretary | Office of Hon Michael Woodhouse
Minister of Immigration | Minister of Veterans’ Affairs | Associate
Minister of Transport
6C Bowen House, Parliament Buildings, Wellington | Tel 04 817 6836

 

 

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From: M Stephens

Dear M Woodhouse,

Thank you for this response, but the missing page as stated in (3) has not been attached or I am unable to find it. Could you please send a scan of this page as per the last email?

Yours sincerely,

M Stephens

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From: M Woodhouse

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Dear M Stephens,

That was my mistake. I have attached the full response from Hon Woodhouse.

I am very sorry for any confusion caused.

Kind regards,

Lucy Hames | Ministerial Secretary | Office of Hon Michael Woodhouse
Minister of Immigration | Minister of Veterans’ Affairs | Associate Minister of Transport
6C Bowen House, Parliament Buildings, Wellington | Tel 04 817 6836 |

-----Original Message-----
From: M Stephens [mailto:[OIA #919 email]]
Sent: Thursday, 5 September 2013 12:48 p.m.
To: M Woodhouse
Subject: Re: Your email of 10 August

Dear M Woodhouse,

Thank you for this response, but the missing page as stated in (3)
has not been attached or I am unable to find it. Could you please
send a scan of this page as per the last email?

Yours sincerely,

M Stephens

-----Original Message-----

Dear M Stephens,

Please find attached a response to your correspondence from the
Minister
of Immigration, the Hon Michael Woodhouse.

Yours sincerely,

Lucy Hames | Ministerial Secretary | Office of Hon Michael
Woodhouse
Minister of Immigration | Minister of Veterans’ Affairs |
Associate
Minister of Transport
6C Bowen House, Parliament Buildings, Wellington | Tel 04 817 6836

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