Requests similar to 'Submission to OIA review' (page 5)
Costs of not acting on climate change
Request sent to Minister for Climate Change Issues by Alex Harris on .
Long overdue.
In 2014 the Treasury Briefing to the Incoming Minister estimated the costs of failing to act on climate change as between $3 billion and $52 billion...
Workshops on regional research institutes
Request sent to Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment by Alex Harris on .
Successful.
According to a briefing on "Proposed approach to establish regional research institutes" (1 May 2015), the first stage of establishing the institute...
Advice on childhood obesity package
Request sent to Ministry of Health by Alex Harris on .
Successful.
On 19 October the government announced a new package of measures to combat childhood obesity ("Government targets overweight mums, toddlers, to comb...
Advice on making New Zealand predator-free
Request sent to Department of Conservation by Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Yesterday the government announced a plan to make New Zealand predator-free by 2050 ("New Zealand to be Predator Free by 2050", New Zealand Governme...
Weekly updates to Minister of Climate Change
Request sent to James Shaw by Alex Harris on .
Partially successful.
According to your answer to Parliamentary Written Question 7893, you received a briefing named "Weekly update – Minister for Climate Change" on 3 No...
Yesterday, the Attorney General published their BORA advice on the Public Safety (Public Protection Orders) Bill. Unusually, the advice was signed...
Membership of the New Zealand Initiative
Response by University of Auckland to Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Dear Alex,
I refer to your request for information dated 22 December 2020.
The University of Auckland is a member of the New Zealand Initia...
Dear Alex Harris
I refer to your request for official information, received by the Ministry
of Health on 19 June 2018. You requested:
all informat...
Hi Alex,
attached is the response to your request.
Kind regards,
Sophie
Advisor
Ministry of Justice | Tāhū o te Ture
DX Box SX10088 | Wellington
T...
Dear Mr Harris
I am in receipt of your Official Information Act request (below) received by
email on 2 October 2014. Please accept this email reply,...
Communications with Gamma International UK Ltd
Request sent to Government Communications Security Bureau by Alex Harris on .
Successful.
I would like to request the following information under the Official Information Act 1982:
* any communications with or from Gamma International U...
Communications with Gamma International
Request sent to New Zealand Customs Service by Alex Harris on .
Information not held.
I would like to request the following information under the
Official Information Act 1982:
* any communications with or from Gamma International...
Is ODESC looking at climate change?
Request sent to Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet by Alex Harris on .
Successful.
Climate change is widely considered to be a risk to national and international security, and many of its effects - floods, droughts, international i...
How many times has IRD requested information from NZ foreign trusts in the past year?
Request sent to Inland Revenue Department by Alex Harris on .
Refused.
According to the Prime Minister, tax-free New Zealand foreign trusts must retain detailed information on their activities and provide it on request...
Further statistics on digital searches in 2013
Request sent to New Zealand Customs Service by Alex Harris on .
Refused.
Today Customs released statistics showing that it had "detained 295 computers and 548 electronic devices for detailed examination of equipment that...
PR plan for NZDF casulaties / killings in Iraq
Request sent to New Zealand Defence Force by Alex Harris on .
Refused.
The NZ government has announced that it will be deploying NZDF personnel to Iraq.
I would like to request the following information under the OIA:...
Learning Media is a State-Owned Enterprise and subject to the Official Information Act. Under Schedule 1 of the OIA, related companies of State ente...
Advice on creation of Minister of National Security and Intelligence
Request sent to Prime Minister by Alex Harris on .
Refused.
Today the Prime Minister announced the creation of a new Minister of National Security and Intelligence ("National Security and Intelligence role cr...
Agenda and communications for Andrews AFB meeting
Request sent to New Zealand Defence Force by Alex Harris on .
Refused.
Last week, Chief of Defence Force Lieutenant General Tim Keating attended a meeting at Andrews air force base in the US to discuss an anti-ISIS coal...
Policy on Diplomatic Protection Service observing crimes
Request sent to New Zealand Police by Alex Harris on .
Refused.
Do the NZ Police have a policy on what members of the Diplomatic Protection Service should do if they observe a crime or apparent crime being commit...
Advice on all-weather horse-racing track
Request sent to Winston Peters by Alex Harris on .
Refused.
On 28 January the Minister for racing announced that the government would be part-funding an all-weather horse racing track ("NZ to get new all-weat...
Advice on drug-testing jobseekers
Request sent to Ministry of Social Development by Alex Harris on .
Refused.
On July 1, Finance Minister Bill English announced that the unemployed would face drug testing in order to receive benefits ("English confirms drug...
On 24 July 2012, the Prime Minister claimed that his proposed asset sales bonus scheme would cost between $60 and $80 million ("$60m - $80m price fo...
Scrapping of "State of the Environment" report
Request sent to Ministry for the Environment by Alex Harris on .
Refused.
On 29 October, Radio New Zealand reported that the government had scrapped its "State of the Environment" report ("State of the Environment report s...
Does GCSB receive funding from the NSA?
Request sent to Government Communications Security Bureau by Alex Harris on .
Refused.
Today it was leaked that the UK's GCHQ had been receiving funding from the US NSA ("NSA pays £100m in secret funding for GCHQ", Guardian, 1 August 2...