Dear Alex,

please find attached the response to your Official Information Act request.

Kind regards,

Katrina Taylor
Business and Secretariat Support
Ministerial and Secretariat Services
Department of Internal Affairs Te Tari Taiwhenua
Bowen House, Parliament Buildings
Wellington, New Zealand
www.dia.govt.nz

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-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Harris [mailto:[OIA #499 email]]
Sent: Friday, 17 August 2012 3:48 p.m.
To: Telephon Telephon
Subject: Official Information Act request - Gift Register for Steven Joyce's Ministerial Advisers

Dear Department of Internal Affairs,

Thankyou for your response to my recent request for information on
Ministerial Advisers in the office of Steven Joyce. I would like to
request the following information under the Official Information
Act 1982:

* Any policy on the acceptance of gifts and hospitality by
Ministerial advisers.
* A list of the gifts and hospitality received by each Ministerial
Adviser employed in the office of Steven Joyce over the past year.
If you have an existing register, then I'd like a copy of it. If
not, then I'd like you to compile one for me, showing all offers of
gifts or hospitality valued at over $50, and in each case, the
value of the offered gift, who it was offered to (obviously you
should anonymise this to protect personal privacy; identifying them
by job title is OK), whether it was accepted, and the business
rationale for such acceptance (this is Treasury's scheme, and it
seems appropriate for use here).

While there are privacy issues here, there is also a substantial
public interest in disclosure. The Ombudsman has previously ruled
in favour of disclosure of gift information for senior public
servants below the Chief Executive level (e.g. Treasury), and I
have no doubt they would make a similar ruling in the case of
Ministerial Advisers.

I understand that this request may be more closely connected with
the Minister's office rather than DIA, and so it may be transferred
there.

I would prefer to receive an electronic response. Queries about
this request will be automatically forwarded to me by the
fyi.org.nz website.

With regards to s12 of the OIA, I am an NZ citizen and in NZ.

Yours faithfully,

Alex Harris

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