NDIA FOI Quarterly and Annual Statistics 2021-2024
Dear Office of the Australian Information Commissioner,
I request access to the bellow documents under the Freedom of Information Act (1982).
A copy of the National Disability Insurance Agency’s Quarterly and Annual FOI statistical return forms submitted to the OAIC. Please include:
- the NDIA’s 2021-2022 annual, Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4 forms.
- the NDIA’s 2022-2023 annual, Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4 forms.
- the NDIA’s 2023-2024 annual, Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4 forms.
- the NDIA’s 2024-2025 Q1 form (if available).
I can be contacted at this email address to receive the documents or clarify my request if required.
With appreciation,
Dan Collins
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Our reference: FOIREQ24/00469
Dear Dan
Freedom of Information request
I refer to your request for access to documents made under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Cth) (FOI Act).
You FOI request was received by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) on 18 September 2024. This means that a decision on your FOI request is currently due on 18 October 2024.
Consultation on scope of your request
Your FOI request was made in the following terms:
A copy of the National Disability Insurance Agency’s Quarterly and Annual FOI statistical return forms submitted to the OAIC. Including:
- the NDIA’s 2021-2022 annual, Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4 forms.
- the NDIA’s 2022-2023 annual, Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4 forms.
- the NDIA’s 2023-2024 annual, Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4 forms.
- the NDIA’s 2024-2025 Q1 form.
In order to efficiently and accurately process your request, we kindly ask if you can confirm whether you are seeking:
• The data input by the NDIA in each statistical return between 2021 and 2024, OR
• The forms completed by the NDIA, extracted from the Statistical Returns portal?
If you are seeking the data provided by the NDIA as part of their statistical returns, you can find a copy of this information here: FOI Statistical Return Portal. In addition, further information about the statistics collected by the OAIC can be found in Appendix E of our Annual Report, via our website.
Please note that the data for 2024-2025 Q1 is not required to be submitted by Agencies, inclusive of the NDIA, until 21 October 2024. Accordingly, this data is not available to the OAIC at this point in time.
Please kindly provide your confirmation of the above by close of business Monday 23 September 2024. If we do not hear from you by this time, we will assume you are seeking the extracts from the Statistical Returns portal.
To process your request as efficiently as possible, we will exclude duplicates and early parts of email streams that are captured in later email streams from the scope of this request, unless you advise me otherwise.
We will not identify you as the FOI applicant during any consultation process, unless we seek your permission. However, documents that are within the scope of your request that we may need to consult third parties about may contain your personal information.
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The current decision due date for your request is 18 October 2024. We will advise you if this timeframe is otherwise extended.
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Documents released under the FOI Act may be published online on our disclosure log, unless they contain personal or business information that would be unreasonable to publish.
If you would like to discuss your FOI request, please contact me on my contact details set out below.
Yours sincerely
Tahlia
Tahlia (she/her)
Lawyer
Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
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Our reference: FOIREQ24/00469
Dear Dan
Apologies, our previous email appear to be missing the hyperlinked
information for your reference. Please see an updated email, with
hyperlinks, below.
Freedom of Information request
I refer to your request for access to documents made under the Freedom of
Information Act 1982 (Cth) (FOI Act).
You FOI request was received by the Office of the Australian Information
Commissioner (OAIC) on 18 September 2024. This means that a decision on
your FOI request is currently due on 18 October 2024.
Consultation on scope of your request
Your FOI request was made in the following terms:
A copy of the National Disability Insurance Agency’s Quarterly and Annual
FOI statistical return forms submitted to the OAIC. Including:
o the NDIA’s 2021-2022 annual, Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4 forms.
o the NDIA’s 2022-2023 annual, Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4 forms.
o the NDIA’s 2023-2024 annual, Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4 forms.
o the NDIA’s 2024-2025 Q1 form.
In order to efficiently and accurately process your request, we kindly ask
if you can confirm whether you are seeking:
o The data input by the NDIA in each statistical return between 2021 and
2024, OR
o The forms completed by the NDIA, extracted from the Statistical
Returns portal?
If you are seeking the data provided by the NDIA as part of their
statistical returns, you can find a copy of this information here: [1]FOI
Statistical Return Portal. In addition, further information about the
statistics collected by the OAIC can be found in Appendix E of our Annual
Report, [2]via our website.
Please note that the data for 2024-2025 Q1 is not required to be submitted
by Agencies, inclusive of the NDIA, until 21 October 2024. Accordingly,
this data is not available to the OAIC at this point in time.
Please kindly provide your confirmation of the above by close of business
Monday 23 September 2024. If we do not hear from you by this time, we will
assume you are seeking the extracts from the Statistical Returns portal.
To process your request as efficiently as possible, we will exclude
duplicates and early parts of email streams that are captured in later
email streams from the scope of this request, unless you advise me
otherwise.
We will not identify you as the FOI applicant during any consultation
process, unless we seek your permission. However, documents that are
within the scope of your request that we may need to consult third parties
about may contain your personal information.
Timeframes for dealing with your request
Section 15 of the FOI Act requires the OAIC to process your request no
later than 30 days after the day we receive it. However, section 15(6) of
the FOI Act allows us a further 30 days in situations where we need to
consult with third parties about certain information, such as business
documents or documents affecting their personal privacy.
The current decision due date for your request is 18 October 2024. We will
advise you if this timeframe is otherwise extended.
Disclosure Log
Documents released under the FOI Act may be published online on our
disclosure log, unless they contain personal or business information that
would be unreasonable to publish.
If you would like to discuss your FOI request, please contact me on my
contact details set out below.
Yours sincerely
Tahlia
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Lawyer
Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
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Dear Tahlia,
Thank you for your quick response.
I am mostly after the data, but I was hoping it could be supplied as copies of the completed forms the NDIA would have submitted in the Statistical Returns portal, for the time periods I previously mentioned.
I noticed that a copy of the blank forms were included at the end of the FOI Statistics Guide (https://www.oaic.gov.au/__data/assets/pd...) and thought you may be able to similarly export the NDIA's completed submissions and return those documents.
Thank you for providing the additional links, but would still like the above if possible, particularly because the 2023-2024 data has not yet been published on the site.
No worries about 2024-2025 Q1. I will request that again after it's due date.
With appreciation,
Dan Collins
Dear Dan
Thank you for confirming the scope of your request.
We confirm that you are seeking the extracted forms from the FOI
Statistical Returns Portal. We also confirm that you have excluded the
2024-2025 Q1 data, as this is not yet available.
We will process your request accordingly.
Kind regards
Tahlia
Tahlia Pelaccia (she/her)
Lawyer
Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
Melbourne
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Dear Tahlia,
I hope this email finds you well.
I'm contacting you to check whether I can still expect the requested documents by this Friday as originally discussed.
With appreciation,
Dan Collins
Good morning
Please see correspondence related to your FOI request, FOIREQ24/00469,
attached.
In relation to your query made on 14 October 2024, we note that the FOI
Act provides a statutory time frame of 30 days for requests to be
completed. As your initial request was submitted on 18 September 2024, the
final decision is due on 18 October 2024.
Kind regards
Tahlia
[1][IMG] Tahlia Pelaccia (she/her)
Lawyer
Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
Melbourne
E [2][OAIC request email]
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Australia and their continuing connection to land, waters and
communities. We pay our respect to First Nations people,
cultures and Elders past and present.
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Dear Tahlia,
Thank you for sending the documents. I'm having a strange issue with the '00469 Bundle S2.pdf' file. Pages 2, 28, and 54 appear blank when viewed with safari or preview, but are normal when viewed with google chrome and adobe acrobat reader.
Could you please re-export the document to ensure sure it is able to be opened across all platforms?
With appreciation,
Dan Collins
Dear Dan
Apologies for the delayed response to your query.
Please note that unfortunately the OAIC does not have the technical expertise to assist with the technical issues that you are experiencing.
As we understand from your email, you are still able to access all documents provided via Adobe.
Should you wish to be sent a physical copy of the documents, please kindly provide your preferred postal address for the documents to be sent to, and we can provide you with a hard copy of the document bundle.
Kind regards
Tahlia
Tahlia Pelaccia (she/her)
Lawyer
Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
Melbourne
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NOTE: Strange problem with the PDF file. Pages 2, 28, and 54 appear blank when viewed using safari or preview, but are normal when viewed using google chrome and adobe acrobat reader.