OIAs and other correspondence

Welcome to this page. Here we share correspondence from the Institute to a range of external parties.

The first table lists requests the Institute has undertaken under the Official Information Act since 2020. References to sections in the status column (right) refer to subsections within s 18 of the Official Information Act 1982. 

The second table lists complaints to the Ombudsman’s Office (see for example, Section 28(3) of the Ombudsmen Act 1975). These are rare.

The third table provides other general correspondence to government Ministers and officials. The Institute endeavours to send all Members of Parliament an annual update of our work programme, as well as engaging in correspondence with wider groups regarding the release of a completed publication or a key event. These letters are published here for transparency.

Further below there is a small section on correspondence that relates to specific topics, such as questions over AgResearch’s outdoor transgenic experiments or salmon farming in the Marlborough Sounds.

1. Official Information Act Requests (OIAs) Schedule

2. Ombudsman Office complaints

3. Other general correspondence

4. Other specific correspondence

Given the level of complexity with some OIAs (such as the number of key players and the transferring between key players); we have also provided a complete PDF of all correspondence the Institute has had with each player. In contrast to Table 1, these PDFs are not always up to date.

A: ERMA Correspondence on GMOs – PDFs of responses to OIAs (in Table 1) by organisation

• AgResearch correspondence by date order as at 8 April 2021 PDF
• EPA correspondence by date order as at 11 March 2021 PDF
• MPI correspondence by date order as at 10 March 2021 PDF
• MfE correspondence by date order as at 11 March 2021 PDF

B: Salmon farming Correspondence

[to come]