OIA 18-E-0164
02 April 2019
Sarah Carter
By email: [FYI request #9821 email]
Tēnā koe
OFFICIAL INFORMATION ACT REQUEST
I refer to your official information request dated 11 March 2019 for the following:
“Please provide all bank statements for the New Zealand Department of
Conservations bank statements from 01/01/15 - 31/12/16
CSV (raw basic format) is fine to save uploading bank issued statements
showing all income and expenditure and all the normal details that the bank
has on these statements.
To clarify, when I say ALL or all bank statements and normal details I mean
"every single one" "each and every one" and "actually all of them" as there
seems to be some confusion in the supply of publicly owned data within your
department and these statements are intended to clarify information”.
On behalf of the Director-General of the Department of Conservation, please find
below our response to your above request.
After carefully considering your request of 11 March 2019, we have decided to
refuse your request under section 18(f) of the Act on the basis that it would require
substantial collation to complete.
In doing so, we have also considered whether the requested information could be
made available if we were to charge you for the necessary work. Given the very
broad scope of your request, we consider that even if we were to charge, responding
to your request would place an unreasonable administrative burden on the
Department.
Central to that decision is that the collation of the documents you have requested
would also require a careful line by line review to assess and attend to any privacy or
commercial considerations their release would present.
Please refer to a link below to the Department’s Annual Reports which includes
income and expenditure and other useful financial statements.
https://www.doc.govt.nz/about-us/our-role/corporate-publications/annual-reports-
archive/
Department of Conservation - Te Papa Atawhai
Whare Kaupapa Atawhai / Conservation House
PO Box 10420, Wellington 6143,
www.doc.govt.nz
DOC-5890375
Please note that this is our final response in relation to this matter and we do not
propose to engage in any further correspondence with you in relation to this request.
This letter (with your personal details removed) may be published on the
Department’s website.
You are entitled to seek an investigation and review of my decision by writing to an
Ombudsman as provided by section 28 (3) Official Information Act.
Yours sincerely
Katrina Nowlan
Director, Finance
Department of Conservation - Te Papa Atawhai
Whare Kaupapa Atawhai / Conservation House
PO Box 10420, Wellington 6143,
www.doc.govt.nz
DOC-5890375
