[FYI request #23194 email]
Dear J Bruning,
Official Information Request – Budgets for Biotech and GM Pasture Species
Further to our earlier letter of 16 August in relation to your official information request, I write
to complete the details from your request we were not able to release in that letter.
Part A
Please see attached further table including the information requested for the remaining
projects, as well as those previously provided to you. Please note the qualifications and
clarifications provided in the earlier letter still apply for this list, including in relation to the
projects we have decided to withhold information for.
We wish to add further, that there is some correlation between some of the individual projects
listed in the table and the information provided to you in Part B (both in this letter and the
previous one). However, the information is not necessarily an exact match, due to dif erences
between how individual projects are recorded in our project management system and the other
data sources we have drawn on to answer Part B.
Part B
We can advise the breakdown of funding under question 4a of your request for the $24m for
the HME ryegrass programme was as follows:
MBIE
$10,000,000
SSIF (AgResearch)
$9,500,000
DairyNZ
$3,750,000
PGG Wrightson Seeds
$500,000
Grasslanz Technology
$250,000
$24,000,000.00
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. If you wish to discuss any aspect of your request with us, including
this decision, please feel free to contact me.
Yours sincerely,
Nick Barraclough
Team Leader - Legal
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