24 April 2025
Sarah Samson
By email to:
[FYI request #30255 email]
Dear Sarah
Amendment to Official Information Act Request 2025/12
On the evening of Thursday 27 February, you made a request under the Official Information Act
1982 (the OIA) for the following information:
1. The total number of mediations since August 2022
2. The total number of mediations not settled since August 2022
3. The total number of personal grievances raised since August 2022
4. The number of personal grievances escalated to the ERA since August 2022
5. How many cases, including but not limited to personal grievances, were found against the
agency
since August 2022
6. Since August 2022, how much in total was paid to settle any cases– including but not limited to
those that reached the ERA
7. Since August 2022, how much money was paid to external legal consultants to defend cases in
the ERA or defend responses to cases that might not have reached the ERA?
On Wednesday, 26 March 2025 we sent you a response to your request. Unfortunately the response
to question 3 was incorrect, and we apologise for this. In answer to question 3, we said there had
been three personal grievances raised since August 2022. The correct answer to this question as at
the date of your request is that there had been nine personal grievances raised from six people since
August 2022. Included in the nine personal grievances, five were resolved and four did not progress.
In the interests of transparency, we release responses to Official Information Act requests every 3
months. We will publish the corrected response to your request, rather than the original response
sent on 26 March 2025, with your personal details redacted.
You have the right under section 28(3) of the Act to make a complaint to the Ombudsman if you are
not satisfied with the correction to the response or the response to your request. Information about
how to do this is available
at www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or by phoning 0800 802 602.
Yours sincerely
Lucy Hickman
Deputy Chief Executive Enterprise Services
Electoral Commission
Level 4, 34-42 Manners Street, PO Box 3220, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
Telephone +64 4 495 0030
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