Andrew Riddell
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This person's 116 Official Information requests (page 2)
Growth and Degrowth
Refused.
The response included a definition of sorts of 'degrowth' and stated that the PM had not received any reports or advice on what 'degrowth' means. Hence...
Local government - wellbeings and rates
Response by Department of Internal Affairs to Andrew Riddell on .
Successful.
Kia ora Andrew,
Please see the attached response to your OIA request.
Ngā mihi,
Benjamin Riezebos | Advisor, Ministerial and Official Correspondence...
Dear Andrew
Please find attached response to your information request of 17 March
2025.
Kind regards,
Office of Hon David Se...
Kia ora Andrew,
This is a courtesy notification that the Regulatory Impact Statement on
refocusing the purpose of local government, which includes t...
[UNCLASSIFIED]
Dear Andrew,
Please find attached a response to your Official Information Act request.
Kind regards,
Visit us on...
ICJ Advisory Decision on Occupied Palestinian Territories
Request to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade by Andrew Riddell. Annotated by Andrew Riddell on .
Successful.
The requested information was provided with quite a few redactions.
Investment Quarterly Reporting
Successful.
The last email from Treasury is an apology for not providing requested information promptly. The Ombudsman had investigated and decided that there had...
Regulatory Standards Bill Consultation - supplementary documents
Response by Ministry for Regulation to Andrew Riddell on .
Refused.
Kia ora Andrew
Our reference: R00678
Thank you for your request, which we have considered under the Official
Information Act 1982 (the OIA...
Good evening Andrew,
Please find attached a response from Hon Simeon Brown.
Regards,
Office of Hon Simeon Brown
Minister of Transpo...
Planning and permissions positions
Response by Department of Conservation to Andrew Riddell on .
Successful.
Kia ora Andrew,
Please find attached the Department of Conservation’s response to your
request, which we received on 06 November 2024.
If you have...
Israeli attacks on UNIFIL
Request to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade by Andrew Riddell. Annotated by Andrew Riddell on .
Partially successful.
Lots of redactions so cannot say have received all of the information
Roof top solar
Long overdue.
Copies of briefing papers on roof top solar have been sent to me under my Expert Energy Group request.
Dear Andrew,
Please see attached Minister Brown’s response to your OIA including the
requested documents.
Kind regards
Office of Hon...
20 working days to decide Mr Seymour was speaking on the economy as the ACT leader not as Associate Minister of Finance!
Dear Andrew Riddell,
Thank you for your email of 27 June 2024 in which you requested the following under the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA):
"a...
Purchasing services from private companies
Response by Accident Compensation Corporation to Andrew Riddell on .
Successful.
Kia ora
Please find attached our response to your official information request
dated 18 September 2024. If you have any questions about the response...
Local government technical advisory group
Response by Simeon Brown to Andrew Riddell on .
Successful.
Dear Andrew,
Please find attached correspondence from Hon Simeon Brown regarding your
request under the Official Information Act 1982.
Kin...
Good evening Andrew
Please find attached our response to your request.
Ngâ mihi,
Chris
8 October 2024
Andrew Riddell
[FOI #27966 email]
Official inf...
Kia ora Andrew,
Thank you for your request for information. Please find attached our
response to your request.
If you have any questions, plea...
OIA 29524 - who was consulted
Follow up sent to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade by Andrew Riddell on .
Successful.
Thanks for the prompt response to my information request.
Cheers,
Andrew Riddell
Local government distractions and experiments
Response by Christopher Luxon to Andrew Riddell on .
Refused.
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11 September 2024
Andrew Riddell
[FOI #28167 email]
Ref: PMO 077-2024-2...
Dear Andrew
Please find attached a response to your Official Information Act request.
Kind regards
Office of Hon Simeon Brown
Minis...
Dear Andrew Riddell
Please find attached a response from the Minister of Foreign Affairs to
your email of 2 August 2024.
Kind regards
...
Advice provided on South African case to International Court of Justice
Request to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade by Andrew Riddell. Annotated by Andrew Riddell on .
Partially successful.
The information has been heavily redacted and does not address all the matters on which information was requested. A complaint is being lodged with the...
Tçnâ koe
Please find attached the response to your OIA, which was transferred from
the Office of Hon Chris Bishop to Te Tûâpapa Kura Kâinga – Mini...
This person's 83 annotations (page 2)
Roof top solar
Long overdue.
Got told on 25 October that responding to this information request is extended to 15 November.
20 working days to decide Mr Seymour was speaking on the economy as the ACT leader not as Associate Minister of Finance!
Processing of information request
Successful.
I have complained to the Ombudsman about the delay in getting a response. Today I received and email from the Ombudsman saying that the Minster's offic...
Advice provided on South African case to International Court of Justice
Request to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade by Andrew Riddell. Annotated by Andrew Riddell on .
Partially successful.
The information has been heavily redacted and does not address all the matters on which information was requested. A complaint is being lodged with the...
Engagement with Israeli Embassy
Request to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade by Andrew Riddell. Annotated by Andrew Riddell on .
Refused.
The difficulty in getting any information from Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade over what their advice is to the government over the genocide and...
Investment Quarterly Reporting
Successful.
This quote from the Ombudsman is in this article https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/06/24/health-nz-makes-minimal-apology-after-ombudsman-ruling/
Investment Quarterly Reporting
Successful.
Can't immediately find the Ombudsman's comment but copied down this from a report on a 'consultation' delay - likely to be a decision on a request to H...
Covid-19 public health measures
Refused.
Another one of those 'we are going to publish this soon so refuse to provide it now' responses.
Despite recent Ombudsman ruling on this sort of refus...
Benefits of Charter Schools
Successful.
Asking a Minister what advice he has received looks more like a request the Minister should answer, not transfer it elsewhere. Transferring the request...
Covid-19 public health measures
Refused.
The part of the request relating to briefings etc to the Minister of Health is still to be answered.
Francesca Albanese visit
Request to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade by Andrew Riddell. Annotated by Andrew Riddell on .
Successful.
Essentially the request was refused because so much of it was redacted. There were a number of emails potentially within the ambit of the request but M...
I-Rex KiwiRail Project
Refused.
Request refused because Treasury are releasing the documents anyway.
This request was refused on very shabby grounds.
Decision to oppose a UN resolution
Request to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade by Andrew Riddell. Annotated by Andrew Riddell on .
Partially successful.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade took a very restrictive approach to the request, only provided what they felt like providing, and redacted things...
Hamas
Partially successful.
I have made several information requests to this government re Israel's genocidal actions.
The repsonses follow the same pattern. First, seek to redu...
briefings on Israel and Gaza
Request to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade by Andrew Riddell. Annotated by Andrew Riddell on .
Partially successful.
(a) I will be complaining to the Ombudsman over the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade's response
- excessive delays in providing the requested inf...
The economy is a household
Successful.
My request has been answered by the Minister confirming she had no technical advice supporting her stance.
Hamas
Partially successful.
Have had two responses so far. The first was to say the request was too broad and wanting its scope reduced to what they were happy to release.
I di...
There seems to be a pattern of foreign affairs staff wanting to reword requests accompanied by threats to refuse the original request.
Not clear how...
Application of Regulatory Impact Analyses
Successful.
Categorised the response as some of the requested information has been received because I still need to review all the redactions and withheld informat...
CCTV cameras on State Highway 11
Information not held.
Surprising that Waka Kotahi does not know or care what extra structures and things people are putting alongside state highways.
CCTV cameras at road intersections
Information not held.
Interesting - new cctv cameras installed on road reserves and neither authority controlling those road reserves (NZTA, FNDC) knows nothing about it.
I am unable to open the roughly 20 MB pdf of the documents requested.
Can open the other pdf documents provided as part of the response by the Fra N...
Decision to start general arming of Christchurch frontline officers
Partially successful.
Excellent letter.
CCTV cameras on road reserve
Successful.
The request was refused because the Council says it had not recevied any application to place the CCTV cameras on the Council's light standard. The Cou...
