Ref: REQ-0008281
30 January 2025
Catherine Jamieson
Email: [FYI request #29831 email]
Tēnā koe Catherine Jamieson,
Thank you for your email of 21 January 2025 to the Ministry of Business, Innovafion and Employment
(MBIE) requesfing, under the Official Informafion Act 1982 (the Act), the fol owing informafion:
Please specify for each company New Zealand has Advance Purchase Agreements to purchase
Covid-19 vaccines:
i)The date the inifial APA was signed and for how many doses of each vaccine; and
i )The date any further APAs were signed or the inifial APA was amended and for how many doses
For each of i) and i ) above please specify whether the APA/amendment was structured as an opfion
or an obligafion to buy that number of doses. Please also make clear in relafion to Pfizer BioNTech
products the vaccine type (eg adult monovalent purple cap, Adult monovalent grey cap, paediatric,
infant, Bivalent, XBB)
This lefter is to advise you that your request has been transferred to the Ministry of Health.
This is because the informafion you have requested is not held by the MBIE. Secfion 14(b)(i) of the Act
requires me to transfer any request where the informafion is not held, but is believed to be held by another
department, organisafion or Minister of the Crown.
You have the right to seek an invesfigafion and review by the Ombudsman of this decision. Informafion
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 or this response, or if you require any further assistance,
please cont
act [email address].
Nāku noa, nā
Simon Rae
Policy Director, Technology and Innovafion
Labour, Science and Enterprise