27 May 2021
Scott
By email:
[FYI request #15473 email]
Reference: OIA-2020/21-0589
Dear Scott
Official Information Act request relating to COVID-19 response advisory groups
Thank you for your request made under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act),
received on 17 May 2021. You requested:
“…For the COVID-19 Independent Continuous Review, Improvement and Advice
Group I request, dated to 17 May:
1. Copies of all meeting minutes
2. Copies of all advice provided to the Minister for the Covid-19 Response
For the Strategic COVID-19 Public Health Advisory Group I request, dated to
17 May:
1. Copies of all meeting minutes
2. Copies of all advice provided to the Minister for the Covid-19 Response and/or
the Associate Minister for Public Health”
I believe that the parts of your request for advice provided to Ministers is more closely
connected to the functions of those Ministers. Accordingly, I have decided under
section 14(b)(ii) of the Act, to partially transfer your request to the Minister for COVID-
19 Response, Hon Chris Hipkins, where it relates to advice provided to the Minister
from the COVID-19 Independent Continuous Review, Improvement and Advice Group.
I am also partially transferring your request to the Associate Minister of Health, Hon Dr
Ayesha Verrall, where it relates to advice provided to the Minister by the Strategic
COVID-19 Public Health Advisory Group.
The remainder of your request has not been transferred, and DPMC will respond in due
course.
Both Ministers have the usual timeframes under the Act from receipt of this transfer to
make their decisions on the respective parts of your request.
Yours sincerely
Sarah Corbett
Manager, Ministerial and Business Services
4388395
Executive Wing, Parliament Buildings, Wellington, New Zealand 6011
64 4 817 9700 Facsimile 64 4 472 3181 www.dpmc.govt.nz