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Kia ora Mr Watkins,
 
I am emailing from the Prime Minister's Office to acknowledge your below
request made under the Official Information Act received 9 February 2019,
requesting:
 

* All of the information you have relating to the 2019/2020
restructuring of RNZ Concert and/or the establishment of a youth radio
station by RNZ, including diary entries, briefings, advice, memos,
correspondence etc.

 
Before responding to your request, I need to inform you that there are
grounds to refuse your request in full under section 18(f) of the OIA, as
the information requested would not be able to be made available without
substantial collation.
 
A way to refine your request in order to remove the grounds for refusal
would be to exclude public correspondence, rather requesting:
 

* All information, excluding public correspondence, relating to the
2019/2020 restructuring of RNZ Concert and/or the establishment of a
youth radio station by RNZ.

 
I note that this refinement will not exclude correspondence from public
entities or organisations.
 
Please let me know whether this refinement is acceptable.
 
Ngā mihi,
 
Tabitha Spicer | Private Secretary (Administration)
Office of the Prime Minister
DDI: +64 4 817 8700 | Email: [1][email address]
 
Authorised by Rt. Hon Jacinda Ardern MP, Parliament Buildings, Wellington
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Gareth Watkins
[[2]mailto:[FYI request #12182 email]]
Sent: Sunday, 9 February 2020 2:34 PM
To: J Ardern (MIN) <[3][Jacinda Ardern request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - RNZ Concert / youth radio
 
Kai ora Jacinda,
 
My request relates to the Prime Minister and Minister for Arts, Culture
and Heritage portfolios.
 
Can you please supply me with all of the information you have relating to
the 2019/2020 restructuring of RNZ Concert and/or the establishment of a
youth radio station by RNZ.  This could include diary entries, briefings,
advice, memos, correspondence etc
 
Regards,
Gareth Watkins
 
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Thanks Gareth.

I can confirm our office will respond to your refined request within the provisions of the Official Information Act 1982.

Ngā mihi,

Tabitha Spicer | Private Secretary (Administration)
Office of the Prime Minister
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-----Original Message-----
From: Gareth Watkins [mailto:[FOI #12182 email]]
Sent: Wednesday, 19 February 2020 4:09 PM
To: Tabitha Spicer <[email address]>
Subject: RE: Official Information request - RNZ Concert / youth radio

Kia ora Tabitha

Thanks for your quick response. My amended request is

Can you please supply me with all of the information you have relating to the 2019/2020 restructuring of RNZ Concert and/or the establishment of a youth radio station by RNZ. This could include diary entries, briefings, advice, memos, correspondence etc. Please exclude public correspondence dated after the 4 February 2020 (as I'm guessing your office will have been flooded after the media stories began).

Yours sincerely,

Gareth

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Kia ora Mr Watkins,

I am emailing from the Prime Minister's Office to acknowledge your below request made under the Official Information Act received 9 February 2019,
requesting:

* All of the information you have relating to the 2019/2020 restructuring of RNZ Concert and/or the establishment of a youth radio station by RNZ, including diary entries, briefings, advice, memos, correspondence etc.

Before responding to your request, I need to inform you that there are grounds to refuse your request in full under section 18(f) of the OIA, as the information requested would not be able to be made available without substantial collation.

A way to refine your request in order to remove the grounds for refusal would be to exclude public correspondence, rather requesting:

* All information, excluding public correspondence, relating to the
2019/2020 restructuring of RNZ Concert and/or the establishment of a youth radio station by RNZ.

I note that this refinement will not exclude correspondence from public entities or organisations.

Please let me know whether this refinement is acceptable.

Ngā mihi,

Tabitha Spicer | Private Secretary (Administration) Office of the Prime Minister
DDI: +64 4 817 8700 | Email: [1][email address]

Authorised by Rt. Hon Jacinda Ardern MP, Parliament Buildings, Wellington

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Dear Gareth Watkins  

 

On behalf of Raj Nahna, I attach a letter regarding your request received
on 9 February (refined 19 February).

 

Yours sincerely

 

Tabitha Spicer

Private Secretary (Administration) │Office of the Prime Minister

DDI  : + 64 4 817 8700

Level 9 Executive Wing, Parliament Buildings, Wellington 6011

 

 

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Kia Ora Gareth

 

I refer to your OIA request asking for:

 

All of the information you have relating to the 2019/2020 restructuring of
RNZ Concert and/or the establishment of a youth radio station by RNZ. This
could include diary entries, briefings, advice, memos, correspondence
etc.  Please exclude public correspondence dated after the 4 February
2020.

 

This email is to advise that a decision has been made in accordance with
the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA). The information in scope of your
request will be provided to you after being administratively processed.
This is taking longer than anticipated due to government’s response to the
Covid-19 pandemic.

 

Formal advice provided to this office by the Ministry for Culture and
Heritage will soon be made publicly available on the Ministry’s website at
[1]https://mch.govt.nz/proactive_releases . Therefore, these documents
have been refused under section 18(d) of the OIA - that the information
requested is or will soon be publicly available.

 

Other documentation, including correspondence within scope of your request
will be released in accordance with OIA shortly

 

Some material has been withheld in accordance with section 9 of the OIA.
In these cases, any public interest has been considered as per section
9(1) of the OIA.

 

You have the right to seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman of
this decision. Information about how to make a complaint is available at
[2]www.ombudsman.parliament.nz  or freephone 0800 802 602.

 

Ngā mihi

 

Sarah

 

 

Sarah Tebbs| Private Secretary - Arts, Culture and Heritage

Office of Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern |Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage

Email: [3][email address]

 

 

-----Original Message-----

From: Tabitha Spicer

Sent: Friday, 21 February 2020 1:47 PM

To: 'Gareth Watkins' <[4][FOI #12182 email]>

Subject: RE: Official Information request - RNZ Concert / youth radio

 

Thanks Gareth.

 

I can confirm our office will respond to your refined request within the
provisions of the Official Information Act 1982.

 

Ngā mihi,

 

Tabitha Spicer | Private Secretary (Administration) Office of the Prime
Minister

DDI: +64 4 817 8700 | Email: [5][email address]

 

Authorised by Rt. Hon Jacinda Ardern MP, Parliament Buildings, Wellington

 

 

-----Original Message-----

From: Gareth Watkins
[[6]mailto:[FOI #12182 email]]

Sent: Wednesday, 19 February 2020 4:09 PM

To: Tabitha Spicer <[7][email address]>

Subject: RE: Official Information request - RNZ Concert / youth radio

 

Kia ora Tabitha

 

Thanks for your quick response.  My amended request is

 

Can you please supply me with all of the information you have relating to
the 2019/2020 restructuring of RNZ Concert and/or the establishment of a
youth radio station by RNZ. This could include diary entries, briefings,
advice, memos, correspondence etc.  Please exclude public correspondence
dated after the 4 February 2020 (as I'm guessing your office will have
been flooded after the media stories began).

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Gareth

 

-----Original Message-----

 

Kia ora Mr Watkins,

 

I am emailing from the Prime Minister's Office to acknowledge your below 
request made under the Official Information Act received 9 February 2019,

requesting:

 

 

* All of the information you have relating to the 2019/2020  restructuring
of RNZ Concert and/or the establishment of a youth radio  station by RNZ,
including diary entries, briefings, advice, memos,  correspondence etc.

 

 

Before responding to your request, I need to inform you that there are 
grounds to refuse your request in full under section 18(f) of the OIA, as 
the information requested would not be able to be made available without 
substantial collation.

 

A way to refine your request in order to remove the grounds for refusal 
would be to exclude public correspondence, rather requesting:

 

 

* All information, excluding public correspondence, relating to the

2019/2020 restructuring of RNZ Concert and/or the establishment of a 
youth radio station by RNZ.

 

 

I note that this refinement will not exclude correspondence from public 
entities or organisations.

 

Please let me know whether this refinement is acceptable.

 

Ngā mihi,

 

Tabitha Spicer | Private Secretary (Administration)  Office of the Prime
Minister

DDI: +64 4 817 8700 | Email: [1][email address]

 

Authorised by Rt. Hon Jacinda Ardern MP, Parliament Buildings, Wellington

 

 

 

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Kia ora Gareth

 

I am very sorry for the delay in this information being released.   I am
advised that the Ministry for Culture and Heritage will be posting its
material on its website in the next two or three days.

 

We've been working to co-ordinate responses to your OIA requests to this
office and to Minister Faafoi's office.  The bulk of the relevant
documents will be released to you by Minister Faafoi's office as Minister
responsible for RNZ; there is very little held by this office which isn't
also held by Minister Faafoi's office

 

My expectation is that you should get responses from both offices within
the next two weeks.  I will keep you updated.

 

Ngā mihi

 

Sarah

 

Sarah Tebbs| Private Secretary - Arts, Culture and Heritage

Office of Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern |Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage

Email: [1][email address]

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----

From: Gareth Watkins
[[2]mailto:[FOI #12182 email]]

Sent: Saturday, 13 June 2020 1:52 PM

To: J Ardern (MIN) <[3][Jacinda Ardern request email]>

Subject: Re: Official Information request - RNZ Concert / youth radio

 

Dear Jacinda Ardern,

 

It has now been six weeks since I talked with your office and I was
advised "Formal advice provided to this office by the Ministry for Culture
and Heritage will soon be made publicly available on the Ministry’s
website" .. and your office was also going to release information.

 

No information has been supplied. Can you please advise when you will
respond to my OIA request.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Gareth Watkins

 

 

 

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Kia ora Gareth

 

Just following up – in case you haven’t seen it, the Ministry has now
posted its documents on its website  -
[1]https://mch.govt.nz/sites/default/files/...

 

Ngā mihi

 

Sarah

 

 

From: Sarah Tebbs
Sent: Monday, 15 June 2020 5:09 PM
To: '[FYI request #12182 email]'
<[FYI request #12182 email]>
Subject: FW: Official Information request - RNZ Concert / youth radio

 

Kia ora Gareth

 

I am very sorry for the delay in this information being released.   I am
advised that the Ministry for Culture and Heritage will be posting its
material on its website in the next two or three days.

 

We've been working to co-ordinate responses to your OIA requests to this
office and to Minister Faafoi's office.  The bulk of the relevant
documents will be released to you by Minister Faafoi's office as Minister
responsible for RNZ; there is very little held by this office which isn't
also held by Minister Faafoi's office

 

My expectation is that you should get responses from both offices within
the next two weeks.  I will keep you updated.

 

Ngā mihi

 

Sarah

 

Sarah Tebbs| Private Secretary - Arts, Culture and Heritage

Office of Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern |Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage

Email: [2][email address]

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----

From: Gareth Watkins
[[3]mailto:[FYI request #12182 email]]

Sent: Saturday, 13 June 2020 1:52 PM

To: J Ardern (MIN) <[4][Jacinda Ardern request email]>

Subject: Re: Official Information request - RNZ Concert / youth radio

 

Dear Jacinda Ardern,

 

It has now been six weeks since I talked with your office and I was
advised "Formal advice provided to this office by the Ministry for Culture
and Heritage will soon be made publicly available on the Ministry’s
website" .. and your office was also going to release information.

 

No information has been supplied. Can you please advise when you will
respond to my OIA request.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Gareth Watkins

 

 

 

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Kia ora Gareth

 

Attached is a response to your request under the Official Information Act
1982 of 19 February 2020 asking for the following information:

 

all of the information you have relating to the 2019/2020 restructuring of
RNZ Concert and/or the establishment of a youth radio station by RNZ. This
could include diary entries, briefings, advice, memos, correspondence
etc.  Please exclude public correspondence dated after the 4 February 2020

 

Ngā mihi

 

Sarah

 

 

Sarah Tebbs| Private Secretary - Arts, Culture and Heritage

Office of Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern |Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage

Email: [1][email address]

 

 

-----Original Message-----

From: Tabitha Spicer

Sent: Friday, 21 February 2020 1:47 PM

To: 'Gareth Watkins' <[2][FYI request #12182 email]>

Subject: RE: Official Information request - RNZ Concert / youth radio

 

Thanks Gareth.

 

I can confirm our office will respond to your refined request within the
provisions of the Official Information Act 1982.

 

Ngā mihi,

 

Tabitha Spicer | Private Secretary (Administration) Office of the Prime
Minister

DDI: +64 4 817 8700 | Email: [3][email address]

 

Authorised by Rt. Hon Jacinda Ardern MP, Parliament Buildings, Wellington

 

 

-----Original Message-----

From: Gareth Watkins
[[4]mailto:[FYI request #12182 email]]

Sent: Wednesday, 19 February 2020 4:09 PM

To: Tabitha Spicer <[5][email address]>

Subject: RE: Official Information request - RNZ Concert / youth radio

 

Kia ora Tabitha

 

Thanks for your quick response.  My amended request is

 

Can you please supply me with all of the information you have relating to
the 2019/2020 restructuring of RNZ Concert and/or the establishment of a
youth radio station by RNZ. This could include diary entries, briefings,
advice, memos, correspondence etc.  Please exclude public correspondence
dated after the 4 February 2020 (as I'm guessing your office will have
been flooded after the media stories began).

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Gareth

 

-----Original Message-----

 

Kia ora Mr Watkins,

 

 I am emailing from the Prime Minister's Office to acknowledge your below 
request made under the Official Information Act received 9 February 2019,

requesting:

 

 

* All of the information you have relating to the 2019/2020  restructuring
of RNZ Concert and/or the establishment of a youth radio  station by RNZ,
including diary entries, briefings, advice, memos,  correspondence etc.

 

 

 Before responding to your request, I need to inform you that there are 
grounds to refuse your request in full under section 18(f) of the OIA, as 
the information requested would not be able to be made available without 
substantial collation.

 

 A way to refine your request in order to remove the grounds for refusal 
would be to exclude public correspondence, rather requesting:

 

 

* All information, excluding public correspondence, relating to the

2019/2020 restructuring of RNZ Concert and/or the establishment of a 
youth radio station by RNZ.

 

 

 I note that this refinement will not exclude correspondence from public 
entities or organisations.

 

 Please let me know whether this refinement is acceptable.

 

 Ngā mihi,

 

 Tabitha Spicer | Private Secretary (Administration)  Office of the Prime
Minister

DDI: +64 4 817 8700 | Email: [1][email address]

 

 Authorised by Rt. Hon Jacinda Ardern MP, Parliament Buildings, Wellington

 

  

 

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