23 September 2024
Tyler Smith
[FYI request #28431 email]
Ref: PMO 108-2024-25
Dear Tyler Smith
Official Information Act request: Press releases
Thank you for your Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) request, received on 18 September
2024. You requested:
“Please advise the below.
1. Has a target/KPI/expectation been set for Ministers to publish a certain number of
press releases within a certain timeframe? for example, one press release per week.
2. If the answer to 1 is yes, please advise the target number of press releases.
3. Please provide the communication sent to Ministers to advise them of this target.
4. Is this target being actively managed? If so please provide information on the
monitoring of this target. I.e showing which Ministers are meeting the target.
5. Please advise any memo or information prepared to support Ministers in gaining
permission (if required) to publish a press release.”
No targets, KPIs or expectations have been set by the Prime Minister for Ministers to publish
a certain number of press releases within a specific timeframe. Furthermore, no targets or
expectations have been set in regard to the publishing of press releases in general. I am
therefore refusing your request under section 18(e) of the Act as the requested information
does not exist.
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