11 October 2024
Jacob
[FYI request #28491 email]
Ref: PMO 118-2024-25
Dear Jacob
Official Information Act request: Communications between the Prime Minister and Hon
Willis 16-23 September 2024
Thank you for your Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) request, received on 24 September
2024. You requested:
“Please provide all communications via text and email between yourself and the
Minister of Finance Hon Nicola Willis between Monday 16 September 2024 and
23 September 2024.”
I have interpreted your request to be for communications via text and email between the
Prime Minister, Rt Hon Christopher Luxon (Rt Hon Luxon) and Hon Nicola Willis (Hon Willis)
during the specified period.
Please find enclosed the following documents:
Item
Date
Document description
Decision
1
16/09/2024
Text: Rt Hon Luxon to Hon
Release in full
5:09pm
Willis
2
19/09/2024
Text: Rt Hon Luxon to Hon
Release in full
6:29am
Willis
3
Undated
Email: Rt Hon Luxon to Hon
Release with some
[transmission
Willis
information withheld
stamp
under:
22/09/2024
S9(2)(a), S9(2)(g)(i)
9.07pm]
4
undated
Attachment to Email referred to
Release of Title, but
in Item 3 titled ‘Working from
document withheld
Home Post Cab Script’
under S9(2)(g)(i)
5
undated
Attachment ‘PR – WFH Post
Release of attachment
Cab’ to Email referred to in
title, but document
Item 3
withheld under
S9(2)(g)(i)
6
undated
Email: Hon Willis to Rt Hon
Release with some
[transmission
Luxon
information withheld
stamp
under:
22/09/2024
S9(2)(a), S9(2)(g)(i)
9.58pm]
The internet link appearing in the text dated 16/09/2024 is
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=PMQs%3a+Starmer+and+Sunak+cla
sh+again+on+winter+fuel+payment+cuts&mid=777020571FE2E8FB6BF6777020571FE2E8
FB6BF6&FORM=VIRE
The internet link appearing in the text dated 19/09/2024 is
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz04md0zdrno.amp
I have decided to release the relevant parts of the documents listed above, subject to
information being withheld under one or more of the following sections of the Act, as
applicable:
• section 9(2)(a), to protect the privacy of individuals; and
• section 9(2)(g)(i), to maintain the effective conduct of public affairs through the free and
frank expression of opinion.
In making my decision, I have considered the public interest considerations in section 9(1) of
the Act. No public interest has been identified that would be sufficient to outweigh the
reasons for withholding that information.
You have the right to ask the Ombudsman to investigate and review my decision under
section 28(3) of the Act.
Yours sincerely
Cameron Burrows
Chief of Staff
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