1 November 2021
Tony Randle
[FYI request #16347 email]
REF: OIA-8866
Dear Tony
Request made under the Official Information Act 1982
Thank you for your email
of 1 October 2021 containing requests for information under the Official
Information Act 1982 (the Act) made as a follow-up to my response to you of 20 September 2021.
Please find attached a clearer version of Table 3 - Summary of Golden Mile Section Relationships on
page 7 of Appendix D Bus Travel Time, Reliability, Comfort and Convenience Report.
We have reviewed the decision about your request, and it remains unchanged. We do not consider
there are any other factors which would render it desirable, in the public interest, to make the
previously withheld or refused information available. Under section 28 of the Act, you have the right to
ask the Ombudsman to review my decision to withhold some information and refuse some portions
this request. The contact details for the Ombudsman can be located at
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz.
Regarding question 15, there were no attachments to the original email. The pdf noted attachments as
a couple of the images were deleted in the process – these were restored in the pdf that was sent to
you.
Regarding part 2 of your follow up request, an agenda for the MCA workshop is included in document
12. As you were previously advised, all meeting notes and discussion points were captured in MCA
scoring and summary, which were provided to you. Your request for further information is refused
under section 18(e) of the Act as the documents requested do not exist.
The complete calculation and formula you have requested in parts 1, 4, 9, 10, 12, 31, 35 and 36 are
the intellectual property of the respective contractors that completed this work. As such I am
withholding this information under section 9(2)(b) to protect information where the making available of
the information:
i.
would disclose a trade secret; or
ii.
would be likely unreasonably to prejudice the commercial position of the person who supplied
or who is the subject of the information.
In addition, this information is withheld under section 9(2)(ba)(i) to protect information which is subject
to an obligation of confidence or which any person has been or could be compelled to provide under
the authority of any enactment, where the making available of the information would be likely to
prejudice the supply of similar information, or information from the same source, and it is in the public
interest that such information should continue to be supplied.
In regard to part 16, the source for this data was modelling. We provided you the outputs of modelling
undertaken, but “actual calculation spreadsheets” as you have requested do not exist. I am refusing
this request under section 18(e) of the Act as the document alleged to contain the information
requested does not exist.
The snapper data you have asked for in your follow up to request 37 consists of card numbers which
may identify individuals. I am withholding this information under section 9(2)(a) of the Act, to protect
the privacy of individuals.
With respect to the information that has been withheld, I do not consider there are any other factors
which would render it desirable, in the public interest, to make the information available.
As noted above, under section 28 of the Act, you have the right to ask the Ombudsman to review my
decision to withhold certain information and refuse some requests.
If you would like to discuss this reply with Let’s Get Wel ington Moving, please contact Willy Trolove,
Interim Communications and Engagement Manager, by email to [email address].
Yours sincerely
David Dunlop
Interim Programme Director
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