13 October 2021
Kirsten Gibson
By email:
[FYI request #16990 email]
Reference: OIA-2021/22-0399
Dear Kirsten Gibson
Official Information Act request relating to all Cabinet papers on the management of
COVID-19 in New Zealand prisons
Thank you for your request made under the Official Information Act (the Act), received on 1
October 2021. You requested:
“Please provide me with all cabinet papers relating to the management of COVID-19 in
New Zealand prisons and the Department of Corrections’ COVID-19 response strategy.”
I believe that the information you have requested is more closely connected with the functions
of the Department of Corrections. Accordingly, I have decided under section 14(b)(ii) of the Act
to transfer your request to the Department of Corrections.
The Department of Corrections has the usual timeframes under the Act from receipt of this
transfer to make a decision on your request.
Yours sincerely
Sarah Corbett
Manager, Ministerial and Business Services
Executive Wing, Parliament Buildings, Wellington, New Zealand 6011
4445374
64 4 817 9700 Facsimile 64 4 472 3181 www.dpmc.govt.nz