DEPARTMENT OF THE
PRIME MINISTER AND CABINET
TE TARI O TE PIRIMIA ME TE KOMITI MATUA
2 November 2021
Matthew Hooton
[FYI request #17042 email]
Ref: OIA-2021/22-0391
Dear Matthew Hooton
Official Information Act request for Covid-19 Cabinet Papers
Thank you for your Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) request received on 4 October
2021. You requested:
please provide me with copies of all Cabinet papers and other written material
considered at that meeting relevant to the Covid announcements.
In accordance with Cabinet Office circular CO (18) 4:
Proactive F,�elease of Cabinet Material:
Updated Requirements, the information you have requested is due to be proactively released
on the Unite Against COVID-19 website (covid19.govt.nz/alert-levels-and-updates/proactive
releases/) in the coming weeks. Accordingly, I have decided to refuse your request for this
information under section 18(d) of the Act - as the information requested will soon be
publicly available.
You have the right to ask the Ombudsman to investigate and review my decision under
section 28(3) of the Act.
We do not intend to publish this response on the Department of the Prime Minister and
Cabinet's website.
Yours sincerely
Ruth Fairhall
Head of Strategy & Policy
Executive Wing, Parliament Buildings, Wellington, New Zealand 6011
4451245
� 64 4 817 9698 www.dpmc.govt.nz