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within 5 working days by return email or telephone if a phone number has
been provided and you have requested us to contact you by telephone.

If your query is urgent, it is recommended that you phone the Contact
Centre during our business hours of 8 am and 5.30 pm, Monday to Friday:

Bond enquiries: 0800 737 666
Tenancy advice: 0800 83 62 62
Email: [1][Department of Building and Housing request email]

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Bond enquiries: +64 4 238 4693
Tenancy advice: +64 4 238 4695
Email: [2][Department of Building and Housing request email]

All enquiries relating to building or licensing of building practitioners
should refer to the numbers below. Business hours are 8.30 am to 5 pm.
Monday to
Friday:

Building enquiries: 0800 242 243
From overseas: +64 4 238 6362
Email: [3][Department of Building and Housing request email]

Licensing enquiries: 0800 60 60 50
From overseas: +64 4 238 6312
Email: [4][email address] or [5][Department of Building and Housing request email]

All enquiries relating to the Weathertight Homes Resolution Service should
refer to the numbers below. Business hours are 8.30 am to 5 pm. Monday to
Friday:

Call 0800 116 926
From overseas: +64 4 237 1604
Hours of operation: 8.00 am - 5.30 pm NZT Monday - Friday
Fax: 0800 116 189
Email: [6]whrs.[Department of Building and Housing request email]

All enquiries relating to the Smarterhomes website, please contact:

Phone: 0800 83 62 62
Email: [7][email address]

For enquiries about Building and Housing Sector Policy, Business Support,
Communications, Human Resources and Organisation Capability, please
contact:

Department of Building and Housing
Level 6, 86 Customhouse Quay
PO Box 10-729, Wellington
Phone: +64 4 494 0260
Fax: +64 4 494 0290
Email: [8][Department of Building and Housing request email]

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Dear Jenny

 

Thank you for your information request, which is referenced below.  The
Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s Building and Housing
Group (formerly the Department of Building and Housing) does not provide
any written guidance information to Private Secretaries in Ministers’
offices (such as a guide or a manual).  I must therefore refuse this part
of your request under section 18(e) of the Official Information Act 1982
(“the Act”), on the grounds that the requested information does not exist.

 

For your information, the induction process for a new Private Secretary
relies instead on verbal guidance, mentoring, peer support and whatever
information is provided to the secondee in the course of their duties by
the Department of Internal Affairs (Executive Government Support) as the
receiving agency.  Each Minister’s office may also provide its own
guidance and information materials based on the needs of the Minister.

 

Positions currently held by Ministry (Building and Housing Group)
employees in Ministers’ offices are:

o Private Secretary to the Minister for Building and Construction
o Private Secretary to the Minister of Housing
o Private Secretary to the Associate Minister of Housing.

 

As part of the Ministry’s performance and development process, each
seconded Private Secretary (like all other Ministry staff) is issued with
an annual letter of expectations.  This letter records the agreed
programme of work for the employee and how success will be measured.  It
also sets out the employee’s agreed learning, development and career
progression priorities.  Because of the timings of their respective
appointments, one of the three Ministry secondees in Ministers’ offices
currently has a letter of expectation issued to them.  Pursuant to section
9(2)(a) of the Act, I have decided to withhold this letter to protect the
privacy of the person concerned.  In making this decision, I have
considered the countervailing public interest provisions in section 9(1).

 

You have the right under section 28(3) of the Act to ask the Ombudsman to
investigate and review my decision to withhold this information.  The
relevant contact details are:

The Ombudsman

Office of the Ombudsmen

PO Box 10 152

WELLINGTON 6143

Ph 0800 802 602

[1]www.ombudsmen.parliament.nz

I trust this information is helpful.

Kind regards

Serge Sablyak
COORDINATOR MINISTERIAL SERVICES
Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment
Building and Housing Group
DDI: (04) 817 4830
Mobile: (021) 487 400
Fax: (04) 494 0290
Level 6, 86 Customhouse Quay
PO Box 10729, Wellington 6143, New Zealand

     Dear Department of Building and Housing,

    

     Please provide information provided to employees that sets out

     role, operating framework, what they can and cannot do,

     expectations when working in a Ministers’ Offices in the position

     as a Private Secretary (or like position). This may include - among

     information - a guide, a manual.

    

     Please provide a list of positions located in Ministers’ Offices

     occupied by a Department employee. Please also provide a list

     documents provided to the employees who currently occupy these

     positions. Please provide these documents. If any are withhold,

     please the ground and the reason for not providing it.

    

     Yours faithfully,

    

     Jenny Graves

    

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