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PO Box 5013
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T+64 4 496 2000
K
By email:
[FYI request #14862 email]
Ref:
H202103828
Dear K
Response to your request for official information
Thank you for your request under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) which was partially
transferred from Waitemata District Health Board on 31 March 2021 for:
“Vulnerable Persons Register
1.What the cost of maintaining this list is for each dhb.
2.What are the observers having to observe and where is the critical point that would be
addressed by making contact with a listee in order to assist.
3.I would like to know how many people are on this list. either
a.with knowledge and consent or
b.completely unaware
4.How and who collates the data collected.
6.I would like to know who is the administrator and who is responsible for the inadequate
and inhumane structure of observing without any contact to the persons being observed,
even after a family member may commit suicide.
7.Under what human and legal rights as well as privacy laws does this 'observing and
collating data’ use or fail to use
8.What funding is allocated for this VPL and for the varied govt services that are coerced
to perform this.”
The Vulnerable Persons Register is not held, managed, accessed or used by the Ministry of
Health (the Ministry). As such, your request is refused under section 18(g) of the Act, as the
Ministry does not hold the information requested.
Under section 28(3) of the Act you have the right to ask the Ombudsman to review my decision
to refuse your request. The Ombudsman may be contacted by email at:
[email address] or by calling 0800 802 602.
Yours sincerely
Nick Allan
Manager OIA Services
Office of the Director-General