Dear Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet,

Please provide a list of all meetings and conference calls involving the Prime Minister between 1 March 2020 and 31 March 2020 inclusive.

Please include the date, time, topic and the attendees (and which organisation they were from) for each event.

Where privacy of a natural person is a problem I am happy for this to be redacted - but will require the organisation and purpose of the meeting to be included. Similarly, the job title of any attending public official should be mentioned.

For clarity, I am not interested in press conferences, public appearances or one-to-one incoming/outgoing phone calls. Where a call is with a conference line bridge then this is in scope of this request. Where the other attendees on that Conference line bridge is not part of a Public Record then this is out of scope - noting that Minutes/Notes/MS Messenger session logs and similar are all Public Records.

Please let me know if you would like to Consult.

Yours faithfully,

Chris Johnston

Dear Information [DPMC],

Thanks for your reply and the referral to the site: https://www.beehive.govt.nz/sites/defaul...

This information has helped to focus the follow-up requests below. Where any information is already publicly available online then please provide the link.

Could the following please be provided for the date range 9 March 2020 to 19 March 2020 inclusive:
1) Outgoing call logs from the Prime Minister's government provided mobile and desk phones. Phone numbers can be redacted. At least the date, time, duration need to be provided. An extract from the corporate bill to Parliamentary Services might suffice but I leave it to you to decide the best source.

2) Agenda and Minutes/Actions from the following meetings - please provide what you can based on what exists (eg formal Minutes may not exist in every instance, but a follow up email by an official in the PMO may detail Actions):
- 3 March 2020 12:00 - 12:30 CEO, Chair and Head of Corporate Affairs of Air New Zealand
- 9 March 2020 11:30 -12:00 COVID-19 Update
- 9 March 2020 14:45 - 14:50 Phone Call: Newly appointed Commissioner of Police
- 10 March 2020 17:00 - 18:00 External Relations and Security Cabinet Committee
- 11 March 2020 15:15 - 15:45 Chief Executive and General Manager of Business New Zealand
- 11 March 2020 16:00 - 16:30 Council of Trade Unions
- 11 March 2020 16:30 - 17:30 Cabinet Committee on COVID-19
- 12 March 2020 22:00 - 22:45 Teleconference: Ministerial Meeting - COVID-19 Ministers
- 14 March 2020 13:00 - 14:00 Teleconference: Cabinet
- 15 March 2020 11:30 - 12:00 Phone Call: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister Robertson
- 16 March 2020 12:00 - 12:30 COVID-19 Update
- 16 March 2020 13:00 - 15:00 Cabinet Meeting
- 17 March 2020 09:00 - 09:15 Phone: Ulu 0 Tokelau
- 17 March 2020 16:00 - 16:30 Meet: Prime Ministers Office Staff
- 18 March 2020 08:30 - 08:45 Fonterra CE and Chair
- 18 March 2020 09:30 - 10:15 Cabinet Social Wellbeing Committee
- 18 March 2020 10:15 - 10:30 Dr Siouxie Wiles and Dr Michelle Dickinson
- 18 March 2020 11:00 - 11:45 Local Government New Zealand
- 18 March 2020 16:30 - 17:30 Cabinet Committee on COVID-19
- 19 March 2020 16:00 - 17:00 Cabinet

3) The following meeting titles are withheld in accordance with s9(2)(f)(iv) of the Official Information Act -
- 3 March 2020 12:30 - 13:00
- 10 March 2020 15:00 - 15;30
- 18 March 2020 12:00 - 13:00

That section says: "this section applies if, and only if, the withholding of the information is necessary to (f) maintain the constitutional conventions for the time being which protect (iv) the confidentiality of advice tendered by Ministers of the Crown and officials"

Section 9(1) says "Where this section applies, good reason for withholding official information exists, for the purpose of section 5, unless, in the circumstances of the particular case, the withholding of that information is outweighed by other considerations which render it desirable, in the public interest, to make that information available."

With the passage of time, and in light of the recent Phase 1 of the Royal Commission Report in COVID-19 - could you please review whether:
- This classification was applied correctly for these meetings in the past
- Publishing the titles of these meetings is now assessed differently (i.e. the balance between confidentiality, public interest and other factors has now changed).

Even if the meeting titles continue to be withheld, can you please confirm whether the meetings relate to COVID-19 and/or the government's response?

4) All correspondence by letter or email between the PMO and the following people/organisations for the month of March 2020:
- CEO, Chair and Head of Corporate Affairs of Air New Zealand
- Fonterra CE and Chair
- Council of Trade Unions
- Commissioner of Police
- Chief Executive and General Manager of Business New Zealand
- Ulu 0 Tokelau
- Dr Siouxie Wiles or Dr Michelle Dickinson
- Local Government New Zealand

All the requests above are separate and severable - so please fulfil what you can.

Yours sincerely,

Chris Johnston