Waikoukou
22 Boulcott Street
PO Box 1021
Wellington 6140
New Zealand
P 64 4 495 7000
F 64 4 495 6968
www.transpower.co.nz
8 February 2022
Eric Blair
By email: [FYI request #18002 email]
Dear Eric
Request for communications between Transpower and the Ministry of Health
I am writing in response to the following Official Information Act (OIA) requests:
your request directly to Transpower, dated 19 December 2021, for all
communications between Transpower and the Ministry of Health on the topic of
'Vaccine Mandates' between dates of 01/03/2021 and 18/11/2021; and
your request to the Ministry of Health, transferred to Transpower on 12 January
2021, for all communications between Ministry of Health and Transpower, on the
subject of 'COVID-19' between the dates of 01/03/2021 and 18/12/2021.
Transpower has not had any communications with the Ministry of Health on COVID-19 or
the topic of vaccine mandates. Our only conversation with the Ministry of Health has been
via a phone call to Healthline in response to a case of COVID-19 and/or clarity regarding
close or casual contact of a positive COVID-19 case. Transpower therefore declines your
request under section 18(g) of the OIA on the basis the information requested is not held.
You have a right to seek a review by the Ombudsman of this decision. Information about
how to make a complaint is available at www.ombudsman.parliament.nz.
Kind regards
Charlotte Edwards
Corporate Counsel