22 June 2022
Chuck Schooner
[FYI request #19409 email]
Dear Chuck
Thank you for your Official Information Act request, received on 20 May 2022. You
requested:
“[Can] you please provide
Part 1
- Total spend on Covid-19 itemised line by line
- Information to include - allocation to government agency
Information publicly available
The information listed in the table below is also covered by the request and available
on the Treasury website. Accordingly, I refuse your request for this information under
section 18(d) of the Official Information Act:
the information requested is or will soon be publicly available.
Item Date
Document Description
Website Address
1.
10 March 2022
COVID-19 funding allocation
www.treasury.govt.nz/pu
and expenditure
blications/budgets/covid-
19-funding-allocation-
expenditure
Part 2
- I then want each government agency to show all of the amounts paid out to external
agencies and the names of the agencies and what the cost was for - vaccines, PPE,
consultancy services
- All of these amounts are to then show if a procurement process was gone through
Please note, the information you have requested is not centrally held and you will need
to make this request to each agency individually.
Part 3
Can you also please provide
- Any legal advice, internal and external memos, treasury / RBNZ input, IMF
correspondence, cost/benefit analysis, emails, reasons and recommendations as to
why the government has changed the way the debt is presented. Effectively I want to
see the process that was gone through by the government to change the way they
present their debt”.
Information publicly available
The information listed in the table below is also covered by the request and will be
available on the Treasury website as part of the Budget 2022 proactive release. In
addition, the Treasury has released an analytical note on the new fiscal rules, including
the new debt indicators. Accordingly, I refuse your request for this information under
section 18(d) of the Official Information Act:
the information requested is or will soon be publicly available.
Item Date
Document Description
Website Address
1.
9 June 2022
Budget 2022 proactive release
www.treasury.govt.nz/pu
blications/budgets/budge
t-2022
1.
3 May 2022
The Treasury’s analysis and
www.treasury.govt.nz/sit
recommendations for fiscal
es/default/files/2022-
rules
05/guide-analysis-
recommendations-fiscal-
rules.pdf
This reply addresses the information you requested. You have the right to ask the
Ombudsman to investigate and review my decision.
As required under the OIA I have processed your request. Please note that any repeat
of the abuse in your letter will mean that I will not process future requests from you.
Yours sincerely
Hon Grant Robertson
Minister of Finance