29 October 2024
Carl Wiggin
[FYI request #28871 email]
Ref: PMO OIA 159-2024-25
Dear Carl Wiggin
Official Information Act request: Use of personal email accounts
Thank you for your Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) request, received on 22 October
2024. You requested:
“Dear Christopher Luxon,
I have been reading that in the UK a minister was been found to have been using a
personal email account for official business, that same thing has happened in USA.
I am interested in if this is happening in NZ.
Please provide a record of any/all emails forward between your offical email accounts
and any personal email accounts.
A list of subject lines is all I need.
I accept that some subject lines may be redacted.
Please note I will be making same request to one or two other ministers.
Yours faithfully,
Carl Wiggin”
The Prime Minister has not forwarded any emails from his official email account to any
personal email account. Therefore, I am refusing your request under section 18(e) of the Act,
because the information requested does not exist.
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