On behalf of Hon Phil Twyford, thank you for your email.

 

While the Minister considers all correspondence to be important and all
messages are carefully read and considered, it is not possible to provide
a personal response to every email which is received.

 

Where the Minister has portfolio responsibility for the issues that you
have raised, your correspondence will be responded to where appropriate.
If your email falls outside of Minister Twyford’s portfolio
responsibilities, we will transfer it to the appropriate office.

 

Invitation and meeting requests will be processed as soon as possible and
we will contact you to advise of the outcome.

 

If you are a constituent writing about a Te Atatu electorate issue, you
will get a response shortly.

 

For urgent queries around Managed Isolation availability  and/or
exemptions: go to miq.govt.nz  

 

For information on COVID-19, including the latest updates, go to
covid19.govt.nz

 

For immigration and visa advice: contact the call centre which is open 
6:00am Monday to midnight on Saturday (NZT).

 

[1]https://www.immigration.govt.nz/contact

 

For urgent housing or benefit enquiries:

∙             Call 0800 559 009 (for under 65)

∙             Call 0800 552 002 (for over 65)

 

Information on Work and Income’s opening hours over the Christmas and New
Year Period is available here:
[2]www.workandincome.govt.nz/about-work-and-income/news/2020/christmas-new-year-holiday-information.html

 

If you need treatment or support for your health or wellbeing the
following options are available.

 

Healthline – You can call Healthline for health advice on freephone 0800
611 116 at any time, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Healthline staff
can advise you on the best thing to do in your situation, including which
services are near you and open.

 

1737 – If you need to talk to someone about how you are feeling, you can
call or text 1737 for free at any time to talk to a trained counsellor.

 

Mental health crisis teams – If you are concerned that someone is going to
hurt themselves or someone else, you can all your local mental health
crisis team. A full list of numbers is available here:
[3]www.health.govt.nz/your-health/services-and-support/health-care-services/mental-health-services/crisis-assessment-teams

 

For Police assistance In an emergency call 111.

For everything else use 105.

You can also make a report online at [4]105.police.govt.nz,

 

Thank you again for taking the time to write.

 

Office of Hon Phil Twyford

Private Bag 18041 | Parliament Buildings | Wellington 6160 | New Zealand

Office Phone: +64 4 817 8704      Email: [email address]

 

Disclaminer: please note information about meetings related to the
Ministers’ portfolios will be proactively released (this does not include
personal or constituency matters). For each meeting in scope, the summary
would list: date, time (start and finish), brief description, location,
who the meeting was with, and the portfolio. If you attend a meeting with
the Minister on behalf of an organisation, the name of the organisation
will be released. If you are a senior staff member at an organisation, or
meet with the Minister in your personal capacity, your name may also be
released. The location of the meeting will be released, unless it is a
private residence. The proactive release will be consistent with the
provisions in the Official Information Act, including privacy
considerations. Under the Privacy Act 1993 you have the right to ask for a
copy of any personal information we hold about you, and to ask for it to
be corrected if you think it is wrong. If you’d like to ask for a copy of
your information, or to have it corrected, or are concerned about the
release of your information in the meeting disclosure, please contact the
sender. You can read more about the proactive release policy at
[5]https://www.dia.govt.nz/Proactive-Releas...

 

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Dear Scott,

I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your Official Information Act request dated Tuesday, 4th October 2022. You have requested the following information:

"A list of the reports, briefings, memos, aides-memoire, notes or written advice received by the minister in his role as Disarmament and Arms Control Minister since 1 February 2022, by title and date "

We will endeavour to respond to your request as soon as possible and in any event no later than Wednesday, 2nd November 2022, being 20 working days after the day your request was received. If we are unable to respond to your request by then, we will notify you of an extension of that timeframe.

Kind regards,

Office of Hon. Phil Twyford
Minister for Disarmament & Arms Control | Minister of State for Trade & Export Growth
Associate Minister for the Environment | Associate Minister of Immigration
MP for Te Atatū
Private Bag 18-041, Parliament Buildings, Wellington

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Dear Scott,

 

Please find attached response to your OIA request received on Tuesday, 4th
October 2022.

 

 

Kind regards,

 

Office of Hon Phil Twyford

Minister for Disarmament & Arms
Control | Minister of State for
Trade & Export Growth

[1]cid:image003.png@01D76203.0F4CBBF0 Associate Minister for the
Environment | Associate Minister of
Immigration

MP for Te Atatû
Private Bag 18-041, Parliament
Buildings, Wellington 6160 |
[2][email address] 

 

 

Email disclaimer: The information in this email (including attachments) is
confidential and may be legally privileged. If an addressing or
transmission error has misdirected this email, please notify the author by
replying to this email and destroy the message. If you are not the
intended recipient, any use, disclosure, copying or distribution is
prohibited and may be unlawful.

 

Please note information about meetings or events related to the Minister’s
portfolios will be proactively released (this does not include personal or
constituency matters).  For each meeting in scope, the summary would list:
date, time (start and finish), brief description, location, who the
meeting was with, and the portfolio.  If you attend a meeting with the
Minister on behalf of an organisation, the name of the organisation will
be released.  If you are a senior staff member at an organisation, or meet
with the Minister in your personal capacity, your name may also be
released.  The location of the meeting will be released, unless it is a
private residence.  The proactive release will be consistent with the
provisions in the Official Information Act, including privacy
considerations.  Under the Privacy Act 1993 you have the right to ask for
a copy of any personal information we hold about you, and to ask for it to
be corrected if you think it is wrong.  If you’d like to ask for a copy of
your information, or to have it corrected, or are concerned about the
release of your information in the meeting disclosure, please contact the
sender.  You can read more about the proactive release policy at
[3]https://www.dia.govt.nz/Proactive-Releas...

 

 

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