Kia ora J.M. Harris

Thank you for your request for official information received 6 May 2020
for:

"Total Number of Deaths in New Zealand per week from 1 January 2015 to 30
April 2020
Under the Official Information Act I am requesting data on how many deaths
in New Zealand occurred for each week of the year from 1 January 2015 to
30 April 2020"

The Ministry's reference number for your request is: H202002979.

As required under the Official Information Act 1982 we will endeavour to
respond to your request no later than 4 June 2020, being 20 working days
after the day your request was received.  

If we are unable to respond to your request within this time frame, we
will notify you of an extension of that time frame.

If you have any queries related to this request, please do not hesitate to
get in touch.

Please note, the Ministry has diverted significant resources to support
the Government's response to COVID-19. This may impact on our ability to
respond to your request. If you would like to reconsider or refine your
current request, this may enable us to respond more quickly. You can
notify us of any changes to your request by replying to this email.

Ngā mihi

OIA Services
Government Services
Office of the Director-General
Ministry of Health
E: [email address]

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Kia ora J M Harris

Thank you for your request for official information, ref: H202002979
received on 6 May 2020 requesting:

"Total Number of Deaths in New Zealand per week from 1 January 2015 to 30
April 2020. Under the Official Information Act I am requesting data on how
many deaths in New Zealand occurred for each week of the year from 1
January 2015 to 30 April 2020"

We have been advised that you have made a similar request to the
Department of Internal Affairs (DIA). Please notify us if you would like
to withdraw your request to us as DIA will be responding to this request.

Ngā mihi

OIA Services
Government Services
Office of the Director-General
Ministry of Health
E: [email address]

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Kia ora Mr Harris

Please find attached a letter regarding your request for information.

Ngā mihi

OIA Services
Government Services
Office of the Director-General
Ministry of Health
E: [email address]

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Kia Ora Mr Harris,

The information you have requested regarding data between the number of
deaths per week from 16 April 2020 to 30 April 2020 is not held by the
Ministry at this time. Generally, the Department of Internal Affairs (DIA)
takes 6-8 weeks to register the death. They will then send the Ministry
the registrations, and then match them to the National Health Index (NHI),
which then will be loaded into our database.

Nga Mihi

OIA Services
Government Services
Office of the Director-General
Ministry of Health
E: [email address]

From:        "J. M. Harris"
<[FOI #12788 email]>
To:        "OIA/LGOIMA requests at Ministry of Health"
<[Ministry of Health request email]>,
Date:        27/05/2020 02:13 p.m.
Subject:        Re: Response to request for official information (ref:
H202002979)

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Dear Ministry of Health,

Thank you for your response, however I asked for full data until 30 April
2020. This data seems to only be until the 09/04/2020 and partial data for
at least the last two weeks of this abbreviated period.

Can you please urgently resend with full data up to the date requested.

Yours faithfully,

J. M. Harris

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Kia Ora Mr Harris,

If you wish to receive the information you have previously requested you
will have to wait for the information to be available. At that time, when
the information is readily available, you will need to resubmit a request
for Official Information.

Alternatively, you may submit a request directly to the Ministry's data
team who would be able to provide you with the requested information as
soon as it becomes available:

https://www.health.govt.nz/nz-health-sta...

Nga Mihi

OIA Services
Government Services
Office of the Director-General
Ministry of Health
E: [email address]

From:        "J. M. Harris"
<[FYI request #12788 email]>
To:        "OIA/LGOIMA requests at Ministry of Health"
<[Ministry of Health request email]>,
Date:        28/05/2020 03:42 p.m.
Subject:        Re: Response to request for official information (ref:
H202003830)

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Dear Ministry of Health,

Thank you for the information, so essentially in order to get the
information I want I need to wait until the end of June for it to be
available?

If so, can I please keep this OIA request open, so your Ministry can run
an extract of the data at that point, rather than resubmitting another OIA
request?

Yours faithfully,

J. M. Harris

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