May 13, 2021 7:00am by David Farrar

Health Ministry misled Parliament and public

Health Director General Dr Ashley Bloomfield has written to Health Minister Andrew Little apologising for giving him incorrect information concerning an edited-down mental health report.
Little repeated this incorrect information in Parliament in response to a question about the report during Question Time.
He corrected the record on Tuesday and released a briefing from Bloomfield on the botched information. …
Little defended the decision to edit down the report in Parliament, telling National’s Matt Doocey that all the statistics removed were available elsewhere publicly.
But on Tuesday he corrected this to the House, saying further discussions with the Ministry of Health had revealed that there were in fact seven different datapoints released in earlier reports that were not publicly available. …
Mental Health Foundation CEO Shaun Robinson, who criticised the Government over the move, said the admission from the Ministry of Health was “fairly vindicating.”

Here’s my question.

Someone at the Ministry of Health was responsible for putting together the talking points that falsely claimed all the data was publicly available elsewhere. Has that person had any consequences occur for their actions which led to the Chief Executive and Minister spreading false info?