27 August 2024
Kitty
[FYI request #27854 email]
Dear Kitty
Thank you for your Official Information Act request, received on 30 July 2024. You
requested:
In a press conference today, you stated that the amount of funding
provided to Health NZ is consistent with the advice received "about what would
needed to be met their cost pressures." You stated "Treasury advised me that we
could give them a lower amount of cost pressure funding... we opted to stick to
the commitment that was in our fiscal plan". You also you did not directly answer
whether a higher budget bid was submitted.
Please provide the advice you received from Treasury re: Health NZ's cost
pressures, cost pressure funding options (including the advice which outlined the
lower amount cost pressure funding option), and if they exist, documents related
to the higher budget bid.
Information publicly available
The information in scope of your request is due to be released as part of a proactive
release on Health New Zealand finances as wel as the Budget 2024 proactive release.
These releases wil be available at: https://www.treasury.govt.nz/publications/other-
official-information/information-releases in due course.
Accordingly, I have refused your request under section 18(d) of the Official Information
Act:
the information requested is or wil soon be publicly available.
This reply addresses the information you requested. You have the right to ask the
Ombudsman to investigate and review my decision.
Yours sincerely
Hon Nicola Wil is
Minister of Finance