Reference: 20190529
3 September 2019
s9(2)(a)
Dear s9(2)(a)
Thank you for your Official Information Act request, received on 8 August 2019. You requested the following:
A list of all requests under the Act that have been responded to by the Treasury in the period 1 April 2019 to 30 June 2019. Please provide a brief description of the request, the date the request was received and the date the request was responded to. I do not require the name of the requestor, however where a political office or organisation has made the request, please provide this.
Information being released
Please find enclosed the following documents:
Item Date Document Description Decision 1. N/A List of OIAs responded to Release in full between 1 April 2019 and 30 June 2019
Please note that this letter (with your personal details removed) and enclosed documents may be published on the Treasury website.
This reply addresses the information you requested. You have the right to ask the Ombudsman to investigate and review my decision.
Yours sincerely
David Hammond Team Leader Ministerial Advisory
1 The Terrace PO Box 3724 Wellington 6140 New Zealand tel. +64-4-472-2733
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List of OIAs responded to between 1 April 2019 and 30 June 2019
Submitter Response Date Received Title Organisation Date
4/02/2019 EQC Inquiry Draft Terms of Reference 4/04/2019 18/02/2019 Demographic breakdown and total numbers of 12/04/2019
employees
24/02/2019 Tax Working Group - Total Cost 18/04/2019
25/02/2019 Information relating to Provincial Growth Fund 24/04/2019
26/02/2019 Rental Healthy homes 26/04/2019 6/03/2019 National Party Treasury advice under Tax Working Group's 3/04/2019
package as it relates to Kiwisaver 6/03/2019 National Party Correspondence sent or received by Treasury 6/05/2019 and Treasury officials TWG media release of 4
March 2019 8/03/2019 Compensation Payments for the Last Five 5/04/2019
Years 8/03/2019 Correspondence between members of the 6/05/2019 Working Group (and Secretariat) that mentions
the Taxpayers’ Union
11/03/2019 Cost of OIA Requests 8/04/2019
12/03/2019 Office of the Comms and Docs on CBAx (Tsy) 6/05/2019 Leader of the Opposition
12/03/2019 Fiscal Calculator 14 Feb - 12 Mar 9/04/2019 12/03/2019 Submissions in favour of and opposed to a 3/04/2019 capital gains tax prior to and following the
release of the Interim Report 13/03/2019 Advice provided to EQC on application of the 4/04/2019
EQC Act between 1990 and 1995
14/03/2019 Office of the Manea Footprints of Kupe Project 7/05/2019 Hon Paul Goldsmith MP 14/03/2019 Copies Of All Briefings, Reports and Advice 11/04/2019
regarding the Misuse of Drugs Amendment Bill
19/03/2019 Healthy Homes standards 6/05/2019 20/03/2019 ACT All papers that were produced by the 2025 17/04/2019
Taskforce in relation to a flat tax
25/03/2019 Office of the Six Documents for McKenna - January 23/05/2019 Leader of the Opposition
25/03/2019 Office of Hon Request for Treasury Documents 7/06/2019 Amy Adams
26/03/2019 Office of Hon Request for Health Documents 15/05/2019 Amy Adams
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Submitter Response Date Received Title Organisation Date 27/03/2019 Office of the Fiscal Calculator 13 March - 27 March 29/04/2019 Leader of the Opposition
27/03/2019 Office of Hon Monetary Policy and Weekly Status Report 14/06/2019 Amy Adams 28/03/2019 Service Contracts for Cleaning and Security 29/04/2019
Services 1/04/2019 Advice Related to May 2018 Announcement of 14/06/2019
Additional Police Officers
2/04/2019 Office of the List of Major Projects 17/05/2019 Leader of the Opposition
3/04/2019 Request for Vocational Education TR T2019/17 17/04/2019 3/04/2019 Registered Promissory Note LW 113 293 209 18/04/2019
NZ 3/04/2019 Request for Aide Memoire T2018/3542 - Initial 2/05/2019 Government Response to the Mental Health
and Addiction Inquiry 3/04/2019 Request for Aide Memoire: T2018/3525 - 2020 6/05/2019 Cannabis Referendum - Approach and
Timeframe 3/04/2019 Request for Aide Memoire: T2019/162 - Budget 12/04/2019
2019 - Education Portfolio Discussion 3/04/2019 Letter of Expectation for Crown Irrigation 1/05/2019
Investments Ltd
3/04/2019 Southern Response Reports 30/04/2019 4/04/2019 Cost Benefit Analysis on New Versus Returning 3/05/2019
Students 4/04/2019 Office of Hon New Zealand’s Official Development Assistance 8/05/2019
Todd McClay programme
8/04/2019 Tender for Police Air Support Unit 7/06/2019
10/04/2019 Wellbeing Card Game 7/05/2019 11/04/2019 All OIAs that the Treasury HR has been 20/05/2019 responsible for responding to in the last three
years
11/04/2019 Heartwork Business Case and Costs 24/05/2019 11/04/2019 Parental Leave Policies, Procedure and 14/05/2019
Arrangements
11/04/2019 Heartwork Team Expenditure 15/05/2019 12/04/2019 All documents relating to Housing New Zealand 27/05/2019 and other Government agencies borrowing on
own balance sheets
16/04/2019 Money spent on training and development 20/05/2019
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Submitter Response Date Received Title Organisation Date 16/04/2019 Communication between TWG secretariat and 17/06/2019
Dr Andrew Coleman
16/04/2019 Organisational Policy On Hosting Events 17/05/2019 18/04/2019 Office of the All Information Relating to a Compassion Starter 19/06/2019
Leader of the Event Opposition 23/04/2019 Comms between the Treasury, MoF, MoR and 22/05/2019 the PM regarding a vacant land tax - 1 Feb to
23 Apr 2019 23/04/2019 All advice prepared by Treasury for Ministers on 20/06/2019
CGT from 21 Feb to 1 Apr 2019 23/04/2019 All advice prepared by Treasury for Ministers on 20/06/2019
CGT from 1 Apr to 23 Apr 2019 24/04/2019 Treasury advice relating to the TWG Final 20/06/2019
Report 26/04/2019 Karaken, Wallace and the Diamond–Dybvig 22/05/2019
models of banking panics
28/04/2019 Major Project Reporting 24/06/2019
30/04/2019 Empathy in Public Policy Making 10/05/2019
1/05/2019 Payments to the Clinton Foundation 20/05/2019
8/05/2019 Office of the GDP per hour worked (May 1 - May 8 2019) 13/06/2019 Leader of the Opposition
8/05/2019 Financial Reports pre-1999 6/06/2019 8/05/2019 Treasury advice on borrowing from Housing 10/05/2019
New Zealand
9/05/2019 Export Credit Services 15/05/2019
9/05/2019 Turanga relativity clause 27/05/2019 10/05/2019 Tax Working Group - TSY hold concerns 23/05/2019
regarding the Chair? 14/05/2019 Any reports, briefings, or memos, including 4/06/2019 drafts, dated 2018 or 2019, that discuss the
effects of legalising recreational cannabis
15/05/2019 Landcorp Letters of expectations 2017 - 2019 30/05/2019
16/05/2019 Maori Pathway Announcement 14/06/2019
17/05/2019 Distribution of Very High Needs Funding 7/06/2019 17/05/2019 Any payments made to social media influencers 6/06/2019
in return for posts 23/05/2019 Office of the All Information and Communications Relating to 20/06/2019 Leader of the Government Debt between 1 January 2019 and
Opposition 1 May 2019
23/05/2019 Office of Hon Copies of Documents from March 21/06/2019 Amy Adams
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Submitter Response Date Received Title Organisation Date 28/05/2019 Office of the Correspondence about the Use of Personal 26/06/2019
Leader of the Pronouns in Email Signatures Opposition
28/05/2019 Budget Information Release 26/06/2019 28/05/2019 Funding relating to Family and Sexual Violence 24/06/2019
Reduction Package
29/05/2019 URLs and Websites Accessed by Treasury Staff 26/06/2019 29/05/2019 Partial transfer from MSD - Treasury Report: 27/06/2019
Update on Youth Service - 14 December 2012 30/05/2019 National Party Internal Correspondence about Police 27/06/2019
Involvement in Budget Information Release 30/05/2019 National Party Correspondence with New Zealand Police 27/06/2019
Relating to Release of Budget Information 30/05/2019 Correspondence with Hon Grant Robertson 27/06/2019
Relating to Release of Budget Information 30/05/2019 Reports Provided to the Minister of Finance in 27/06/2019
March 2019
30/05/2019 Release of Budget Information 28/06/2019
30/05/2019 Release of Budget Information 28/06/2019
30/05/2019 List of Attendees at Budget Lock Up 28/06/2019
31/05/2019 Titles of embargoed Budget documents 24/06/2019 2/06/2019 Request for Govt welfare expenditure of last 10 20/06/2019
years 4/06/2019 Request for TR: Establishing an Independent 10/06/2019
Fiscal Institution
5/06/2019 Budget surpluses and deficits since 2000 17/06/2019 10/06/2019 Treasury Reports to the Minister of Finance 28/06/2019 released under the Official Information Act but
not on the website in last 12 months
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