21 June 2024
Cooper O'Neil
[FYI request #27111 email]
Ref: PMO 270-2023-24
Dear Cooper
Official Information Act request: Correspondence related to hi-tech awards
Thank you for your Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) request, received on 5 June 2024.
You requested:
“Information relating to the Hi-Tech Awards 2024.
Correspondence to and from your office relating to the Hi-Tech Awards 2024.
Invitations or letters from organisers of the Hi-Tech Awards 2024.”
A search has been completed and attached is the relevant correspondence relating to the Hi-
Tech Awards 2024 as requested. Please note some information has been withheld under the
following sections of the Act:
• s9(2)(a), to protect the privacy of individuals
• s9(2)(g)(i), to maintain the effective conduct of public affairs through the free and
frank expression of opinion.
In making my decision, I have considered the public interest considerations in section 9(1) of
the Act. No public interest has been identified that would be sufficient to outweigh the
reasons for withholding that information.
You have the right to ask the Ombudsman to investigate and review my decision under
section 28(3) of the Act.
Yours sincerely
Cameron Burrows
Chief of Staff