Dear Sport and Recreation New Zealand,

Could you please answer the following questions:

1.- What is the structure of the World Cups Office?

2.- Who is currently employed, or was employed, by the World Cups Office, in the period 2015-2017?

3.- What are the current salaries of its employees?

4.- What are or were the roles of its employees?

5.- What was the hiring process like?

6.- Is there an annual report specifying what the World Cups Office did in 2015, 2016 and 2017?

7.- What are the World Cups Office goals from 2018 on wards?

Yours faithfully,

Mijail Linares

Dear Policy Mailbox,

Thank you for your response.

I'd like to follow up with these questions:

1.- How many employees did the World Cups Office had in 2017, and how many employees does it currently have?

According to Sports NZ report, the COST OF SERVICE BY OUTPUT EXPENSE: SPORT AND RECREATION PROGRAMMES, for the year ended 30 June 2017. The World Cups Office reported expenses for 3,053,000 in 2017.

2.- Could you please clearly detail what were the expenses of the World Cups Office in 2017? i.e. salaries, office supplies, consulting services, etc.

3.- How much was spent in salaries at the World Cups Office in the year ended 30 June 2018?

In an earlier statement you indicated that the goal of the World Cups Office is to "coordinate a response across Government Agencies and Event Organizers to deliver events declared Major Events under the Major Events Management Act of 2007".

4.- Could you please describe what specific activities the World Cups Office carries out, and identify the priorities and performance goals towards this objective?

Yours sincerely,

Mijail Linares

Dear Policy Mailbox,

Thank you for your response.

I'd like to follow up with some questions:

1.- Please detail the travel expenses for the year ended 30 June 2017? i.e. destinations, number of trips.

Please elaborate on the Consulting Services expenses for the year ended 30 June 2017 by answering the following questions:

3.- Which were the the consulting firm(s) employed during this period?

4.- What were they employed to consult on? i.e. feasibility study, post-event analysis, etc.

Please elaborate on the Investment Grants & Funding expenses for the year ended 30 June 2017 by answering the following questions:

5.- Who were the recipients of the grants & funding?

6.- How did they get access to these grants? Was there an application process?

Yours sincerely,

Mijail Linares