Reference: 20200087 22 May 2020 s9(2)(a) Dear s9(2)(a) Thank you for your Official Information Act request, received on 21 February 2020. You requested: 1. Joint Report by the Treasury and the Reserve Bank of NZ T2019/3011: Update on Deposit Takers Act and Deposit Insurance work. 2. Joint Report by Treasury and Ministry of Health T2019/3055: Taranaki DHB Project Maunga Stage Two Indicative Business Case. 3. Treasury Report T2019/2743: Letter to the Finance and Expenditure Committee on Public Finance System Modernisation. 4. Treasury Report T2019/2732: Advice on the Government Response to the Tomorrow's Schools Taskforce Final Report. 5. Aide Memoire T2019/3173: State of Play as at 10 October 2019. 6. Treasury Report T2019/2929: Unfunded costs of development infrastructure to catch up to Auckland's population growth. 7. Treasury Report T2019/3113: Possible impacts of a NZ Aluminium Smelter Closure. 8. Treasury Report T2019/2476: Parliamentary Budget Office - Draft Cabinet Papers. 9. Joint Report T2019/3033: City Rail Link - revised Project Delivery Agreement. 10. Treasury Report T2019/3107: Welfare Overhaul- Advice for Meeting of Joint Ministers on 22 October 2019. 11. Aide Memoire T2019/3307: Updates to the Pay Equity Governance and Oversight Framework. 12. Joint Report by the Treasury and Ministry of Health T2019/3282: DHB Performance joint meeting, Ministers of Health and Finance, October 2019. 13. Joint Report by the Treasury and Ministry of Health T2019/2658: District Health Board 2019/20 Annual Plans Fiscal Risk Assessment. On 11 March 2020 I advised you that I would be transferring your request for the document titled ‘Joint Report by the Treasury and Ministry of Health T2019/3282: DHB Performance joint meeting, Ministers of Health and Finance, October 2019’ to the Minister of Finance for response. 1 The Terrace PO Box 3724 Wellington 6140 New Zealand tel. +64-4-472-2733 https://treasury.govt.nz The Treasury extended the timeframe for communicating a decision on the remainder of your request by 20 working days. Information to be released Please find enclosed the following documents: Item Date Document Description Action 2. 4/10/2019 Joint Report by Treasury and Ministry of Health Released in part T2019/3055: Taranaki DHB Project Maunga Stage Two Indicative Business Case 3. 9/10/2019 Treasury Report T2019/2743: Letter to the Released in full Finance and Expenditure Committee on Public Finance System Modernisation 5. 10/10/2019 Aide Memoire T2019/3173: State of Play as at Released in part 10 October 2019 4. 9/10/2019 Treasury Report T2019/2732: Advice on the Released in part Government Response to the Tomorrow's Schools Taskforce Final Report 9. 15/10/2019 Joint Report T2019/3033: City Rail Link - Released in full revised Project Delivery Agreement. 11. 18/10/2019 Aide Memoire T2019/3307: Update to the Pay Released in part Equity Governance and Oversight Framework 13. 22/10/2019 Joint Report by the Treasury and Ministry of Released in part Health T2019/2658: District Health Board 2019/20 Annual Plans Fiscal Risk Assessment I have decided to release the documents listed above, subject to information being withheld under one or more of the following sections of the Official Information Act, as applicable: personal contact details of officials, under section 9(2)(a) – to protect the privacy of natural persons, including that of deceased natural persons, names and contact details of officials, under section 9(2)(g)(ii) – to maintain the effective conduct of public affairs through protecting ministers, members of government organisations, officers and employees from improper pressure or harassment, advice still under consideration, section 9(2)(f)(iv) – to maintain the current constitutional conventions protecting the confidentiality of advice tendered by Ministers and officials, certain sensitive advice, under section 9(2)(g)(i) – to maintain the effective conduct of public affairs through the free and frank expression of opinions, commercially sensitive information, under section 9(2)(b)(ii) – to protect the commercial position of the person who supplied the information, or who is the subject of the information, 2 9(2)(ba)(i) – to protect information which is subject to an obligation of confidence or which any person has been or could be compelled to provide under the authority of any enactment, where the making available of the information would be likely to prejudice the supply of similar information, or information from the same source, and it is in the public interest that such information should continue to be supplied, under section 9(2)(h) – to maintain legal professional privilege, direct dial phone numbers of officials, under section 9(2)(k) – to prevent the disclosure of information for improper gain or improper advantage. We have redacted the direct dial phone numbers of officials under section 9(2)(k) in order to reduce the possibility of staff being exposed to phishing and other scams. This is because information released under the OIA may end up in the public domain, for example, on websites including Treasury’s own website. Information publicly available The following information is publicly available on the Treasury website: Item Date Document Description Website Address 1. 3/10/2019 Joint Report by the Treasury https://treasury.govt.nz/public and the Reserve Bank of NZ ations/information- T2019/3011: Update on release/reserve-bank-act- Deposit Takers Act and review-phase-2-review- Deposit Insurance work update-proactive-release 7. 11/10/2019 Treasury Report T2019/3113: https://treasury.govt.nz/sites/ Possible impacts of a NZ default/files/2019-12/oia- Aluminium Smelter Closure 20190767.pdf Accordingly, I have refused your request for the documents listed in the above table under section 18(d) of the Official Information Act: the information requested is or will soon be publicly available. Some relevant information has been removed from documents listed in the above table and should continue to be withheld under the Official Information Act, on the grounds described in the documents. 3 Information to be withheld I have decided to withhold the documents listed below in full under the following sections of the Official Information Act, as applicable: Item Date Document Description Proposed Action 6. 11/10/2019 Unfunded costs of development infrastructure Withheld in full under to catch up to Auckland's population growth section 9(2)(f)(iv) 8. 11/10/2019 T2019/2476: Parliamentary Budget Office - Withheld in full under Draft Cabinet Papers section 9(2)(f)(iv) 10. 17/10/2019 Treasury Report T2019/3107: Welfare Withhold in full under Overhaul- Advice for Meeting of Joint Ministers section 9(2)(f)(iv) on 22 October 2019 Following the recent release of the Budget we are reviewing the documents listed above to see if they can now be released and if so whether they can be released in full or partly redacted. In making my decision, I have considered the public interest considerations in section 9(1) of the Official Information Act. 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 4 Table of Contents 1. Joint Report by Treasury and Ministry of Health T2019/3055: Taranaki DHB Project 1 Maunga Stage Two Indicative Business Case 2. Treasury Report_T2019/2743: Letter to the Finance and Expenditure Committee 11 on Public Finance System Modernisation 3. Aide Memoire T2019/3173: State of Play as at 10 October 2019 14 4. Treasury Report T2019/2732: Advice on the Government Response to the 18 Tomorrow's Schools Taskforce Final Report 5. Joint Report T2019/3033: City Rail Link - revised Project Delivery Agreement 27 6. Summary of material changes to PDA- Attachment 2 31 7. Aide Memoire: T2019/3307: Updates to the Pay Equity Governance and Oversight 32 Framework 8. Joint Report by the Treasury and Ministry of Health T2019/2658: District Health 36 Board 2019/20 Annual Plans Fiscal Risk Assessment s9(2)(k) s9(2)(k) s9(2)(k) s9(2)(f)(iv) s9(2)(f)(iv) s9(2)(f)(iv) s9(2)(f)(iv) s9(2)(f)(iv) s9(2)(f)(iv) s9(2)(f)(iv) s9(2)(f)(iv) s9(2)(f)(iv) s9(2)(f)(iv) 9(2)(b)(ii) s9(2)(f)(iv) s9(2)(f)(iv) s9(2)(f)(iv) s9(2)(f)(iv) s9(2)(a) s9(2)(f)(iv) Doc 2 11 of 51 IN-CONFIDENCE Treasury Report: Letter to the Finance and Expenditure Committee on Public Finance System Modernisation Date: 9 October 2019 Report No: T2019/2743 File Number: ST-6-0 Action sought Action sought Deadline Hon Grant Robertson Provide feedback on attached letter Wednesday 16 October 2019 Minister of Finance Sign attached letter (subject to incorporation of feedback) Send letter to the Chair of the Finance and Expenditure Committee Contact for telephone discussion (if required) Name Position Telephone 1st Contact Emily Fulford Senior Analyst, System s9(2)(k) N/A Design and Strategy (wk) (mob) John Marney Manager, System Design s9(2)(k) N/A and Strategy (wk) (mob) Minister’s Office actions (if required) Return the signed report to Treasury. Send attached letter to the Chair of the Finance and Expenditure Committee (subject to incorporation of feedback). Note any feedback on the quality of the report Enclosure: Yes (attached) Treasury:4167070v1 IN-CONFIDENCE Doc 2 12 of 51 IN-CONFIDENCE Treasury Report: Letter to the Finance and Expenditure Committee on Public Finance System Modernisation Purpose of Report 1. This report seeks your feedback on the attached letter to the Chair of the Finance and Expenditure Committee (FEC) on public finance system modernisation.