Planning and Funding Telephone: 0064 3 364 4193
P O Box 1600
[email address];
CHRISTCHURCH
14 October 2021
R S Bicknell
Email: [FYI request #17180 email]
Dear R S Bicknell
RE Official Information Act request WCDHB 9619
We are writing to acknowledge your email dated 13 October 2021 requesting the fol owing
information under the Official Information Act from West Coast DHB. Specifically:
•
How much was spent on travel costs for locum staff in the 2019 financial year?
We will consider your request against the provisions of the Official Information Act (see below) and
advise you of our decision regarding the release of information within 20 working days (being the
statutory timeframe provided within the Act.)
Accordingly, we will notify you no later than 12 November 2021 of our decision.
Your request is being handled by Kathleen Smitheram. If you have any queries, please feel free to
contact either myself (details above) or Kathleen.
([email address]; phone (03)
364-4134).
Please refer to the OIA number above when phoning or emailing. 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.
Yours sincerely
Ralph La Salle
Team Leader
Planning, Funding & Decision Support
15 Decisions on requests
(1) Subject to this Act, the department or Minister of the Crown or organisation to whom a request is made in accordance
wit
h section 12 or is transferred in accordance wit
h section 14 of this Act o
r section 12 of the Local Government Official
Information and Meetings Act 1987 shal , as soon as reasonably practicable, and in any case not later than 20 working days
after the day on which the request is received by that department or Minister of the Crown or organisation,—
(1)(a) decide whether the request is to be granted and, if it is to be granted, in what manner and for what charge (if any);
and
(1)(b) give or post to the person who made the request notice of the decision on the request
[If we are unable to make a decision on your request by the date noted above, we wil notify you of an extension of that
timeframe.]