New Zealand Security Intelligence Service - international travel
Carl Langan made this Official Information request to New Zealand Security Intelligence Service
The request was refused by New Zealand Security Intelligence Service.
From: Carl Langan
Dear New Zealand Security Intelligence Service,
I would like to request details of the international travel costs incurred by the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service over the last three financial years.
This should included budgeted costs and actual amounts spent, broken down by financial year.
Yours faithfully,
Carl Langan
From: OIA Privacy
New Zealand Security Intelligence Service
Dear Carl Langan,
We are writing to acknowledge receipt of your official information request dated 19 April as outlined below.
We will endeavour to respond to your request as soon as practicable and, in any event, no later than 18 May 2021, being 20 working days after the day that your request was received. If we are unable to respond to your request by then, we will notify you of an extension of that timeframe.
If you have any queries, please feel free to contact [NZSIS request email]. If any additional factors come to light which are relevant to your request, please do not hesitate to contact us so that these can be taken into account.
Kind regards,
NZSIS
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From: OIA Privacy
New Zealand Security Intelligence Service
Dear Carl
Please find attached a response to your OIA request (below).
Kind regards
NZSIS
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From: Carl Langan
Dear OIA Privacy (NZSIS),
Thank you for your reply dated 18 May 2021 to my Official Information Act request related to international travel costs incurred by NZSIS.
The scope of my request was purely financial in nature - I was not asking for details regarding international travel destinations or for details of the purposes of such travel.
Other government departments, including the Ministry of Defence, have provided details of their international travel expenditure.
As such I do not believe you have grounds to deny my request under section 6(a) of the Official Information Act.
Please reconsider my request or I will lay a complaint with the Ombudsman. The secret nature of your work does not mean how you utilise public money should be beyond scrutiny.
Yours sincerely,
Carl Langan
From: OIA Privacy
New Zealand Security Intelligence Service
Dear Carl
As requested in your email of 22 May 2021, the NZSIS has reconsidered the response to your OIA request for information about international travel expenditure.
We remain of the view that disclosure of this type of information would likely prejudice the security or defence of New Zealand or the international relations of the Government of New Zealand.
If you don't agree with this decision, you are entitled to refer this matter to the Ombudsman for further review.
Kind regards
NZSIS
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