Requested by: New Zealand Herald | Response provided: 16/12/2020
Category: Workforce Development

I write in response to your Official Information Act request received by us 2nd November 2020, you requested the following information:

Please provide information relating to your relevant government department or agency on the following areas of sensitive expenditure. For all the below categories I request breakdowns for each of the last two years (2018, 2019) and year to date.

1. Gifts (both given and received, including offered and turned down): Please provide information on the amounts spent, the gifts given or received, and the recipients.

2. Koha, similar breakdown as above.

3. Tips/gratuity: Please provide a breakdown of the amount spent both domestically and internationally, including details of how much was paid and to whom. Please include details of the single largest tip or gratuity payment.

4. Hospitality/entertainment: Please provide a breakdown of how much was spent and on what. Please provide separate breakdowns for domestic and international.

5. Alcohol: Please provide separate figures as per above.

6. Air travel: Please provide a breakdown for both international and domestic, including for economy and business class air travel. Please include figures for both business travel and contributions or allowances towards personal travel.

7. Accommodation: Please provide a breakdown for both international and domestic. Please include figures for both business travel accommodation and contributions or allowances towards personal accommodation.

8. Taxis/corporate vehicles: Please provide a breakdown of taxi/corporate vehicle expenses for both domestic and international, including details of the single largest taxi bill.

9. Rental cars: Please provide similar figures for rental cars.

10. Moving expenses: Please provide a breakdown of how much was spent on personal moving expenses for relocating staff.

11. Parking/traffic offences: Please provide a breakdown of both parking and traffic offence expenses, both domestic and international.

12. Christmas functions: Please provide figures on expenses related to Christmas functions

13. Social club: Please provide figures on expenses related to social clubs.

14. Correspondence: Please provide all correspondence for 2018, 2019 and 2020, both internal and external, including emails, letters, text messages, reports, advice etc, relating to concerns around sensitive expenditure. This should include all correspondence involving your relevant government department or agency and the Office of the Auditor General.

 

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