3 February 2023
New Zealand Council for Civil Liberties
[FYI request #21465 email]
Dear New Zealand Council for Civil Liberties
Official Information Request
Our Ref: OIA 2022-0202
I refer to your official information request received on 20 December 2022 where you asked:
“The Commission recently ran a public consultation between 24 November 2022 and 12
December 2022 on the draft of New Zealand's 4th National Action Plan as a member of the
Open Government Partnership.
https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fogp.org.nz%2Fnew-
zealands-plan%2Ffourth-national-action-
plan%2F&data=05%7C01%7Ccommission%40publicservice.govt.nz%7Cb17008a6a67843fb0
91b08dae2184732%7C41e14a91587d4fbf8dead6aea7148019%7C0%7C0%7C6380708920421
60975%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik
1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=7Oo0f%2BGvU%2FMRCUxRLrpZgk
kCAWtw6ELgXBQml6uWbWM%3D&reserved=0
Please provide the following information:
1) a copy of all the submissions received on the draft 4th National Action Plan.
2) The Commission's analysis of al the submissions (not simply the summary published
here:
https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fogp.org.nz%2Fasset
s%2FNew-Zealand-Plan%2FFourth-National-Action-Plan%2FAppendix-B-Summary-of-
Feedback-on-NAP4-
FINAL.pdf&data=05%7C01%7Ccommission%40publicservice.govt.nz%7Cb17008a6a67843fb
091b08dae2184732%7C41e14a91587d4fbf8dead6aea7148019%7C0%7C0%7C638070892042
160975%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6I
k1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=orXywbz47OARObjRV6onILyfO8W
7CUk571pfAgx8UgA%3D&reserved=0 ).
3) The Commission's advice to the Minister for the Public Service on the submissions and
amendments to the draft National Action Plan.
4) Al briefings, advice, aides memoire, reports or other written information provided to the
Minister for the Public Service on matters relating to the draft 4th National Action Plan in the
months September, October, November, and December 2022.
Level 10, RBNZ Building | 2 The Terrace | PO Box 329
Wel ington 6140 | New Zealand
Phone +64 4 495 6600
Under section 16 of the OIA, our preference is to receive the information in a text searchable
format (not image-only PDF), as attachments to an email sent to the address from which the
Commission received this request.
Under section 19(a)(i ) of the OIA, if the Commission decides to withhold any information,
please provide us with the grounds in support of the withholding reason cited in the decision,
along with details of the public interest factors favouring disclosure that were considered by
the Commission when making its decision on the request.”
The Official Information Act 1982 requires that we advise you of our decision on your request no
later than 20 working days after the day that we received your request. Unfortunately, it wil not
be possible to meet that time limit and we are, therefore, writing to notify you of an extension of
the time to make our decision, to
22 February 2023. We wil keep you updated on the progress of our response to your request.
This extension is necessary because consultations needed to make a decision on your request
are such that a proper response cannot reasonably be made within the original time limit.
If you wish to discuss any aspect of your request with us, including this decision, please feel free
to contact Ministerial Services a
t [email address]. You have the right to seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman of this decision.
Information about how to make a complaint is available at
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or
freephone 0800 802 602.
Yours sincerely
Nicky Dirks
Manager – Ministerial and Executive Services
Te Kawa Mataaho Public Service Commission
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