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From: Canterbury Victim
Dear David Seymour,
This is a request for Official Information based on your 1 May 2024 letter to me regarding crimes committed by Southern Response.
Your response to my letter can be viewed at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aFMD2JM...
On 2 April 2024 I requested that the New Zealand Government take over my efforts regarding the prima facie criminal fraud committed by Southern Response and the New Zealand laws violated by those with a duty of care for the population of New Zealand. I also requested that the Government pay for lawyers to come to a fair settlement of my unsettled home insurance claim.
In your response you only mentioned the settlement of the claim.
You stated that you spoke with Southern Response and they provided you with a list of 3 circumstances in which they have paid claimants legal fees. You also stated that I did not meet the criteria for any of the circumstances.
1) Please provide me with all documents and information related to the list of 3 circumstances being a fixed list that did not expand over time.
. The reason that I am requesting this is because it would appear that this list has expanded over time, and that there is no reason that it could not be expanded further to accommodate my circumstances.
2) In my request I did not ask for Southern Response to agree to pay the legal fees, I requested that the Government do so.
. Please provide all documents and information on the steps taken to ascertain if the Government would be willing to pay to settle the claim, and the conclusions of that process.
One of the circumstances listed where legal fees would be paid was “to enable a policy holder to bring a test case that is likely to have significant policy implications for Southern Response and its broader claims portfolio. For example, the Dodds proceedings.”
3) Please provide me with all documents and information related to any assessment of the facts that I presented to you about the prima facie criminal fraud committed by Southern Response, in general but also including if this would be likely to have significant policy implications for Southern Response.
4) Please provide all documents and information related to the decision that the above option was not offered as being available to settle my claim.
In your reply you wrote “I understand that the root of the delay in settling your claim is a dispute between you and Southern Response on the proposed repair methodology for your property…”
5) Please provide all documents and information on how you have understood the delay in settling the claim being related to the repair methodology instead of the criminal fraud that they have committed against me.
In your response you only addressed information contained in two pages of the fourteen page letter.
6) Please provide all documents and information on the decision to not address 12 pages of my letter in your response.
It is commonly understood that the position of Minister for Regulation involves upholding the rule of law.
7) Please provide all documents and information related to the position of Minister for Regulation involving the upholding of the rule of law.
8) Please provide all documents and information related to efforts undertaken to understand the implications of rule of law in relation to the 12 pages of my letter that were not addressed in your response.
In your response you have stated that you are responding as a shareholder Minister for Southern Response. When the office of Christopher Luxon told me they had forwarded the communication to the office of the Minister for Regulations. When I received confirmation of receipt from your office I was told it fell under your Associate Finance portfolio.
9) Please provide all documents and information related to the decision to address my letter as the shareholder Minister for Southern Response, instead of as Associate Finance Minister, or Minister for Regulations, when the majority of my letter was about financial crimes by Government employees, and the covering up of those crimes by other Government employees.
Regarding shareholder Minister for Southern Response communication with Southern Response.
10) Please provide all documents and information related to your communications with Southern Response regarding me, my claim, or my letter to which you responded.
11) Please provide all documents and information related to David Clark’s communications with Southern Response regarding their crimes, to which he initially said did not exist, then said he lied about it not existing because the information contained within the communications would impede his ability to have frank conversations with Southern Response about the crimes they are committing.
12) Please provide all documents and information related to Grant Robertson’s communications with Southern Response regarding their crimes.
In my letter I mentioned that I would need to address a number of Ministers if the Government decided not to take on the responsibility of ensuring accountability for the unlawful acts that I have experienced and been instructed to investigate by the Serious Fraud Office.
13) Please provide me with the details for the Minister responsible for the Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008.
. I am requesting this in relation to the Insurance and Financial Services Ombudsman Scheme violating the Act.
14) Please provide me with the details for the Minister responsible for the Ombudsman Act 1975.
. I am requesting this in relation to the Ombudsman, Peter Boshier, and staff violating the Act.
15) Please provide me with the details for the Minister for Justice.
. I am requesting this in relation to Her Excellency The Right Honourable Dame Cindy Kiro, GNZM, QSO Governor-General of New Zealand via Government House staff stating that I need to speak to the Minister of Justice to arrange the removal of Peter Boshier from his position of Ombudsman of New Zealand.
16) Please provide me with the details for any other shareholder Ministers for Southern Response.
. I am requesting this in relation to the financial crimes committed by Southern Response staff and your decision to not address these matters in your response.
17) Please provide me with the details for the Minister responsible for the Earthquake Commission.
. I am requesting this in relation to EQC working with Southern Response to hide criminal fraud.
18) Please provide me with the details for the Minister responsible for Radio New Zealand.
. I am requesting this in relation to RNZ unlawfully destroying official information relating to the crimes committed by Southern Response.
19) Please provide me with the details for the Minister responsible for the New Zealand Police.
. I am requesting this in relation to my police report about the crimes of Southern Response having been read, then unread, and remaining re-unread for 21 months after it was submitted, where I have been told by the police that I shouldn’t be speaking to the police because I’m requesting that Government Employees be held accountable for their crimes.
These requests are being made on the grounds of public interest in relation to the matters of transparency; participation; accountability; administration of justice; health, safety and the environment.
Please note that the requests are not just for documents, but also information. As such with regards to the Office of the Ombudsman guidance document “The OIA for Ministers and Agencies” these requests for official information include “information held in the memory of” the Minister and his staff. As such unless there is a document which provides the information requested, the Minister and staff must be questioned to provide the held information from their memory. No sections of this request can be denied based on Section 18(e) unless they are also denied on Section 18(g).
Each of the points is an individual request for official information. If any of the responses need to be extended that should not impact delivery of responses for those that do not require an extension. Any decision to extend a deadline should be accompanied with the grounds for the decision.
Any information that is denied should be accompanied with the grounds for the decision to deny the information. These should include the dates and times that the Minister and staff was questioned about their memory of the official information.
As per the Office of the Ombudsman guidance a clarification requested will only reset the deadline for the individual requests where a clarification is provided, the remainder of the requests for official information in this communication will have the original deadline remain.
Further in relation to the Office of the Ombudsman guidance “The agency’s primary legal obligation is to notify the requester of the decision on the request ‘as soon as reasonably practicable’. The reference to 20 working days is not the de facto goal but the absolute maximum (unless it is extended appropriately).” If the notification does happen on the last day of the 20 working day deadline please provide the grounds for why the decision was made that it was not ‘reasonably practicable’ to provide the decision sooner.
Yours faithfully,
.
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From: David Seymour (MIN)
David Seymour
Dear Jason,
Thank you for your email in which you submitted an Official Information
Act request as follows:
1) Please provide me with all documents and information related to the
list of 3 circumstances being a fixed list that did not expand over time.
2) Please provide all documents and information on the steps taken to
ascertain if the Government would be willing to pay to settle the claim,
and the conclusions of that process.
3) Please provide me with all documents and information related to any
assessment of the facts that I presented to you about the prima facie
criminal fraud committed by Southern Response, in general but also
including if this would be likely to have significant policy implications
for Southern Response.
4) Please provide all documents and information related to the decision
that the above option was not offered as being available to settle my
claim.
5) Please provide all documents and information on how you have understood
the delay in settling the claim being related to the repair methodology
instead of the criminal fraud that they have committed against me.
6) Please provide all documents and information on the decision to not
address 12 pages of my letter in your response.
7) Please provide all documents and information related to the position of
Minister for Regulation involving the upholding of the rule of law.
8) Please provide all documents and information related to efforts
undertaken to understand the implications of rule of law in relation to
the 12 pages of my letter that were not addressed in your response.
9) Please provide all documents and information related to the decision to
address my letter as the shareholder Minister for Southern Response,
instead of as Associate Finance Minister, or Minister for Regulations,
when the majority of my letter was about financial crimes by Government
employees, and the covering up of those crimes by other Government
employees.
10) Please provide all documents and information related to your
communications with Southern Response regarding me, my claim, or my letter
to which you responded.
11) Please provide all documents and information related to David Clark’s
communications with Southern Response regarding their crimes, to which he
initially said did not exist, then said he lied about it not existing
because the information contained within the communications would impede
his ability to have frank conversations with Southern Response about the
crimes they are committing.
12) Please provide all documents and information related to Grant
Robertson’s communications with Southern Response regarding their crimes.
13) Please provide me with the details for the Minister responsible for
the Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act
2008.
14) Please provide me with the details for the Minister responsible for
the Ombudsman Act 1975.
15) Please provide me with the details for the Minister for Justice.
16) Please provide me with the details for any other shareholder Ministers
for Southern Response.
17) Please provide me with the details for the Minister responsible for
the Earthquake Commission.
18) Please provide me with the details for the Minister responsible for
Radio New Zealand.
19) Please provide me with the details for the Minister responsible for
the New Zealand Police.
Please note that the requests are not just for documents, but also
information. As such with regards to the Office of the Ombudsman guidance
document “The OIA for Ministers and Agencies” these requests for official
information include “information held in the memory of” the Minister and
his staff. As such unless there is a document which provides the
information requested, the Minister and staff must be questioned to
provide the held information from their memory. No sections of this
request can be denied based on Section 18(e) unless they are also denied
on Section 18(g)."
We received your request on Thursday 2 May 2024. We will endeavour to
respond to requests 2-6, 8-10, and 13-19 as soon as possible and in any
event no later than Wednesday 30 May 2024, being 20 working days after the
day your request was received. If we are unable to respond to your request
by then, we will notify you of an extension of that timeframe.
As per section 14 of the OIA, we are transferring requests 1, 11 and 12 to
Southern Response. David, as Associate Minister of Finance, does not hold
the information sought and the requested information is more closely
aligned with the functions of Southern Response. Southern Response will
respond to you directly regarding these requests.
As per section 14 of the OIA, we are transferring request 7 to Hon David
Seymour (Minister of Regulation) because your request is more closely
connected with the functions of the Minister of Regulation.
Kind regards,
Liam Collett| Private Secretary Executive Support
Office of Hon David Seymour
Deputy Prime Minister (from 31 May 2025) Minister for Regulation Associate
Minister of Education (Partnership Schools) Associate Minister of Justice
(Treaty Principles Bill) Associate Minister of Finance Associate Minister
of Health (Pharmac)
DDI 04 817 6819 I 7.6 Executive Wing, Parliament Buildings
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From: Canterbury Victim
<[1][FOI #26604 email]>
Sent: Thursday, May 2, 2024 11:26 AM
To: David Seymour (MIN) <[2][email address]>
Subject: DSOIA110 Official Information request - Crimes by Government
Employees
Dear David Seymour,
This is a request for Official Information based on your 1 May 2024 letter
to me regarding crimes committed by Southern Response.
Your response to my letter can be viewed at:
[3]https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://driv...
On 2 April 2024 I requested that the New Zealand Government take over my
efforts regarding the prima facie criminal fraud committed by Southern
Response and the New Zealand laws violated by those with a duty of care
for the population of New Zealand. I also requested that the Government
pay for lawyers to come to a fair settlement of my unsettled home
insurance claim.
In your response you only mentioned the settlement of the claim.
You stated that you spoke with Southern Response and they provided you
with a list of 3 circumstances in which they have paid claimants legal
fees. You also stated that I did not meet the criteria for any of the
circumstances.
1) Please provide me with all documents and information related to the
list of 3 circumstances being a fixed list that did not expand over time.
. The reason that I am requesting this is because it would appear that
this list has expanded over time, and that there is no reason that it
could not be expanded further to accommodate my circumstances.
2) In my request I did not ask for Southern Response to agree to pay the
legal fees, I requested that the Government do so.
. Please provide all documents and information on the steps taken to
ascertain if the Government would be willing to pay to settle the claim,
and the conclusions of that process.
One of the circumstances listed where legal fees would be paid was “to
enable a policy holder to bring a test case that is likely to have
significant policy implications for Southern Response and its broader
claims portfolio. For example, the Dodds proceedings.”
3) Please provide me with all documents and information related to any
assessment of the facts that I presented to you about the prima facie
criminal fraud committed by Southern Response, in general but also
including if this would be likely to have significant policy implications
for Southern Response.
4) Please provide all documents and information related to the decision
that the above option was not offered as being available to settle my
claim.
In your reply you wrote “I understand that the root of the delay in
settling your claim is a dispute between you and Southern Response on the
proposed repair methodology for your property…”
5) Please provide all documents and information on how you have understood
the delay in settling the claim being related to the repair methodology
instead of the criminal fraud that they have committed against me.
In your response you only addressed information contained in two pages of
the fourteen page letter.
6) Please provide all documents and information on the decision to not
address 12 pages of my letter in your response.
It is commonly understood that the position of Minister for Regulation
involves upholding the rule of law.
7) Please provide all documents and information related to the position of
Minister for Regulation involving the upholding of the rule of law.
8) Please provide all documents and information related to efforts
undertaken to understand the implications of rule of law in relation to
the 12 pages of my letter that were not addressed in your response.
In your response you have stated that you are responding as a shareholder
Minister for Southern Response. When the office of Christopher Luxon told
me they had forwarded the communication to the office of the Minister for
Regulations. When I received confirmation of receipt from your office I
was told it fell under your Associate Finance portfolio.
9) Please provide all documents and information related to the decision to
address my letter as the shareholder Minister for Southern Response,
instead of as Associate Finance Minister, or Minister for Regulations,
when the majority of my letter was about financial crimes by Government
employees, and the covering up of those crimes by other Government
employees.
Regarding shareholder Minister for Southern Response communication with
Southern Response.
10) Please provide all documents and information related to your
communications with Southern Response regarding me, my claim, or my letter
to which you responded.
11) Please provide all documents and information related to David Clark’s
communications with Southern Response regarding their crimes, to which he
initially said did not exist, then said he lied about it not existing
because the information contained within the communications would impede
his ability to have frank conversations with Southern Response about the
crimes they are committing.
12) Please provide all documents and information related to Grant
Robertson’s communications with Southern Response regarding their crimes.
In my letter I mentioned that I would need to address a number of
Ministers if the Government decided not to take on the responsibility of
ensuring accountability for the unlawful acts that I have experienced and
been instructed to investigate by the Serious Fraud Office.
13) Please provide me with the details for the Minister responsible for
the Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act
2008.
. I am requesting this in relation to the Insurance and Financial
Services Ombudsman Scheme violating the Act.
14) Please provide me with the details for the Minister responsible for
the Ombudsman Act 1975.
. I am requesting this in relation to the Ombudsman, Peter Boshier, and
staff violating the Act.
15) Please provide me with the details for the Minister for Justice.
. I am requesting this in relation to Her Excellency The Right
Honourable Dame Cindy Kiro, GNZM, QSO Governor-General of New Zealand via
Government House staff stating that I need to speak to the Minister of
Justice to arrange the removal of Peter Boshier from his position of
Ombudsman of New Zealand.
16) Please provide me with the details for any other shareholder Ministers
for Southern Response.
. I am requesting this in relation to the financial crimes committed by
Southern Response staff and your decision to not address these matters in
your response.
17) Please provide me with the details for the Minister responsible for
the Earthquake Commission.
. I am requesting this in relation to EQC working with Southern
Response to hide criminal fraud.
18) Please provide me with the details for the Minister responsible for
Radio New Zealand.
. I am requesting this in relation to RNZ unlawfully destroying
official information relating to the crimes committed by Southern
Response.
19) Please provide me with the details for the Minister responsible for
the New Zealand Police.
. I am requesting this in relation to my police report about the crimes
of Southern Response having been read, then unread, and remaining
re-unread for 21 months after it was submitted, where I have been told by
the police that I shouldn’t be speaking to the police because I’m
requesting that Government Employees be held accountable for their crimes.
These requests are being made on the grounds of public interest in
relation to the matters of transparency; participation; accountability;
administration of justice; health, safety and the environment.
Please note that the requests are not just for documents, but also
information. As such with regards to the Office of the Ombudsman guidance
document “The OIA for Ministers and Agencies” these requests for official
information include “information held in the memory of” the Minister and
his staff. As such unless there is a document which provides the
information requested, the Minister and staff must be questioned to
provide the held information from their memory. No sections of this
request can be denied based on Section 18(e) unless they are also denied
on Section 18(g).
Each of the points is an individual request for official information. If
any of the responses need to be extended that should not impact delivery
of responses for those that do not require an extension. Any decision to
extend a deadline should be accompanied with the grounds for the decision.
Any information that is denied should be accompanied with the grounds for
the decision to deny the information. These should include the dates and
times that the Minister and staff was questioned about their memory of the
official information.
As per the Office of the Ombudsman guidance a clarification requested will
only reset the deadline for the individual requests where a clarification
is provided, the remainder of the requests for official information in
this communication will have the original deadline remain.
Further in relation to the Office of the Ombudsman guidance “The agency’s
primary legal obligation is to notify the requester of the decision on the
request ‘as soon as reasonably practicable’. The reference to 20 working
days is not the de facto goal but the absolute maximum (unless it is
extended appropriately).” If the notification does happen on the last day
of the 20 working day deadline please provide the grounds for why the
decision was made that it was not ‘reasonably practicable’ to provide the
decision sooner.
Yours faithfully,
.
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Dear Jason,
On 16 May 2024, the Office of the Hon David Seymour partially transferred
the following aspects of your OIA request to Southern Response under the
Official Information Act 1982 (“OIA”):
o Please provide me with all documents and information related to the
list of 3 circumstances being a fixed list that did not expand over
time.
o Please provide all documents and information related to David Clark’s
communications with Southern Response regarding their crimes, to which
he initially said did not exist, then said he lied about it not
existing because the information contained within the communications
would impede his ability to have frank conversations with Southern
Response about the crimes they are committing.
o Please provide all documents and information related to Grant
Robertson’s communications with Southern Response regarding their
crimes.
We acknowledge receipt of your OIA request and will advise you of our
decision no later than 14 June 2024, being 20 working days after the date
on which we received transfer of your request from the Office of the Hon
David Seymour. Please note that if we need to extend this timeframe, we
will notify you prior to the 20 working days expiring in accordance with
section 15A of the OIA.
We ask that you please direct any further correspondence relating to these
aspects of your OIA request to [1][email address]
Kind regards,
Tom
OIA Team
Southern Response Earthquake Services Ltd
PO Box 9052
Christchurch
[2]www.southernresponse.co.nz
Southern Response Earthquake Services Ltd is the government-owned company
responsible for settling claims by AMI policyholders for Canterbury
earthquake damage which occurred before 5 April 2012 (the date AMI was
sold to IAG).
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From: Liam Collett
Dear Jason,
Please find attached letter from Hon David Seymour in response to your OIA
request.
Kind regards,
Liam Collett| Private Secretary Executive Support
Office of Hon David Seymour
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From: David Seymour (MIN)
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2024 3:41 PM
To: [2][FOI #26604 email]
Subject: FW: Official Information request - Crimes by Government Employees
Dear Jason,
Thank you for your email in which you submitted an Official Information
Act request as follows:
1) Please provide me with all documents and information related to the
list of 3 circumstances being a fixed list that did not expand over time.
2) Please provide all documents and information on the steps taken to
ascertain if the Government would be willing to pay to settle the claim,
and the conclusions of that process.
3) Please provide me with all documents and information related to any
assessment of the facts that I presented to you about the prima facie
criminal fraud committed by Southern Response, in general but also
including if this would be likely to have significant policy implications
for Southern Response.
4) Please provide all documents and information related to the decision
that the above option was not offered as being available to settle my
claim.
5) Please provide all documents and information on how you have understood
the delay in settling the claim being related to the repair methodology
instead of the criminal fraud that they have committed against me.
6) Please provide all documents and information on the decision to not
address 12 pages of my letter in your response.
7) Please provide all documents and information related to the position of
Minister for Regulation involving the upholding of the rule of law.
8) Please provide all documents and information related to efforts
undertaken to understand the implications of rule of law in relation to
the 12 pages of my letter that were not addressed in your response.
9) Please provide all documents and information related to the decision to
address my letter as the shareholder Minister for Southern Response,
instead of as Associate Finance Minister, or Minister for Regulations,
when the majority of my letter was about financial crimes by Government
employees, and the covering up of those crimes by other Government
employees.
10) Please provide all documents and information related to your
communications with Southern Response regarding me, my claim, or my letter
to which you responded.
11) Please provide all documents and information related to David Clark’s
communications with Southern Response regarding their crimes, to which he
initially said did not exist, then said he lied about it not existing
because the information contained within the communications would impede
his ability to have frank conversations with Southern Response about the
crimes they are committing.
12) Please provide all documents and information related to Grant
Robertson’s communications with Southern Response regarding their crimes.
13) Please provide me with the details for the Minister responsible for
the Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act
2008.
14) Please provide me with the details for the Minister responsible for
the Ombudsman Act 1975.
15) Please provide me with the details for the Minister for Justice.
16) Please provide me with the details for any other shareholder Ministers
for Southern Response.
17) Please provide me with the details for the Minister responsible for
the Earthquake Commission.
18) Please provide me with the details for the Minister responsible for
Radio New Zealand.
19) Please provide me with the details for the Minister responsible for
the New Zealand Police.
Please note that the requests are not just for documents, but also
information. As such with regards to the Office of the Ombudsman guidance
document “The OIA for Ministers and Agencies” these requests for official
information include “information held in the memory of” the Minister and
his staff. As such unless there is a document which provides the
information requested, the Minister and staff must be questioned to
provide the held information from their memory. No sections of this
request can be denied based on Section 18(e) unless they are also denied
on Section 18(g)."
We received your request on Thursday 2 May 2024. We will endeavour to
respond to requests 2-6, 8-10, and 13-19 as soon as possible and in any
event no later than Wednesday 30 May 2024, being 20 working days after the
day your request was received. If we are unable to respond to your request
by then, we will notify you of an extension of that timeframe.
As per section 14 of the OIA, we are transferring requests 1, 11 and 12 to
Southern Response. David, as Associate Minister of Finance, does not hold
the information sought and the requested information is more closely
aligned with the functions of Southern Response. Southern Response will
respond to you directly regarding these requests.
As per section 14 of the OIA, we are transferring request 7 to Hon David
Seymour (Minister of Regulation) because your request is more closely
connected with the functions of the Minister of Regulation.
Kind regards,
Liam Collett| Private Secretary Executive Support
Office of Hon David Seymour
Deputy Prime Minister (from 31 May 2025) Minister for Regulation Associate
Minister of Education (Partnership Schools) Associate Minister of Justice
(Treaty Principles Bill) Associate Minister of Finance Associate Minister
of Health (Pharmac)
DDI 04 817 6819 I 7.6 Executive Wing, Parliament Buildings
-----Original Message-----
From: Canterbury Victim
<[3][FOI #26604 email]>
Sent: Thursday, May 2, 2024 11:26 AM
To: David Seymour (MIN) <[4][email address]>
Subject: DSOIA110 Official Information request - Crimes by Government
Employees
Dear David Seymour,
This is a request for Official Information based on your 1 May 2024 letter
to me regarding crimes committed by Southern Response.
Your response to my letter can be viewed at:
[5]https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://driv...
On 2 April 2024 I requested that the New Zealand Government take over my
efforts regarding the prima facie criminal fraud committed by Southern
Response and the New Zealand laws violated by those with a duty of care
for the population of New Zealand. I also requested that the Government
pay for lawyers to come to a fair settlement of my unsettled home
insurance claim.
In your response you only mentioned the settlement of the claim.
You stated that you spoke with Southern Response and they provided you
with a list of 3 circumstances in which they have paid claimants legal
fees. You also stated that I did not meet the criteria for any of the
circumstances.
1) Please provide me with all documents and information related to the
list of 3 circumstances being a fixed list that did not expand over time.
. The reason that I am requesting this is because it would appear that
this list has expanded over time, and that there is no reason that it
could not be expanded further to accommodate my circumstances.
2) In my request I did not ask for Southern Response to agree to pay the
legal fees, I requested that the Government do so.
. Please provide all documents and information on the steps taken to
ascertain if the Government would be willing to pay to settle the claim,
and the conclusions of that process.
One of the circumstances listed where legal fees would be paid was “to
enable a policy holder to bring a test case that is likely to have
significant policy implications for Southern Response and its broader
claims portfolio. For example, the Dodds proceedings.”
3) Please provide me with all documents and information related to any
assessment of the facts that I presented to you about the prima facie
criminal fraud committed by Southern Response, in general but also
including if this would be likely to have significant policy implications
for Southern Response.
4) Please provide all documents and information related to the decision
that the above option was not offered as being available to settle my
claim.
In your reply you wrote “I understand that the root of the delay in
settling your claim is a dispute between you and Southern Response on the
proposed repair methodology for your property…”
5) Please provide all documents and information on how you have understood
the delay in settling the claim being related to the repair methodology
instead of the criminal fraud that they have committed against me.
In your response you only addressed information contained in two pages of
the fourteen page letter.
6) Please provide all documents and information on the decision to not
address 12 pages of my letter in your response.
It is commonly understood that the position of Minister for Regulation
involves upholding the rule of law.
7) Please provide all documents and information related to the position of
Minister for Regulation involving the upholding of the rule of law.
8) Please provide all documents and information related to efforts
undertaken to understand the implications of rule of law in relation to
the 12 pages of my letter that were not addressed in your response.
In your response you have stated that you are responding as a shareholder
Minister for Southern Response. When the office of Christopher Luxon told
me they had forwarded the communication to the office of the Minister for
Regulations. When I received confirmation of receipt from your office I
was told it fell under your Associate Finance portfolio.
9) Please provide all documents and information related to the decision to
address my letter as the shareholder Minister for Southern Response,
instead of as Associate Finance Minister, or Minister for Regulations,
when the majority of my letter was about financial crimes by Government
employees, and the covering up of those crimes by other Government
employees.
Regarding shareholder Minister for Southern Response communication with
Southern Response.
10) Please provide all documents and information related to your
communications with Southern Response regarding me, my claim, or my letter
to which you responded.
11) Please provide all documents and information related to David Clark’s
communications with Southern Response regarding their crimes, to which he
initially said did not exist, then said he lied about it not existing
because the information contained within the communications would impede
his ability to have frank conversations with Southern Response about the
crimes they are committing.
12) Please provide all documents and information related to Grant
Robertson’s communications with Southern Response regarding their crimes.
In my letter I mentioned that I would need to address a number of
Ministers if the Government decided not to take on the responsibility of
ensuring accountability for the unlawful acts that I have experienced and
been instructed to investigate by the Serious Fraud Office.
13) Please provide me with the details for the Minister responsible for
the Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act
2008.
. I am requesting this in relation to the Insurance and Financial
Services Ombudsman Scheme violating the Act.
14) Please provide me with the details for the Minister responsible for
the Ombudsman Act 1975.
. I am requesting this in relation to the Ombudsman, Peter Boshier, and
staff violating the Act.
15) Please provide me with the details for the Minister for Justice.
. I am requesting this in relation to Her Excellency The Right
Honourable Dame Cindy Kiro, GNZM, QSO Governor-General of New Zealand via
Government House staff stating that I need to speak to the Minister of
Justice to arrange the removal of Peter Boshier from his position of
Ombudsman of New Zealand.
16) Please provide me with the details for any other shareholder Ministers
for Southern Response.
. I am requesting this in relation to the financial crimes committed by
Southern Response staff and your decision to not address these matters in
your response.
17) Please provide me with the details for the Minister responsible for
the Earthquake Commission.
. I am requesting this in relation to EQC working with Southern
Response to hide criminal fraud.
18) Please provide me with the details for the Minister responsible for
Radio New Zealand.
. I am requesting this in relation to RNZ unlawfully destroying
official information relating to the crimes committed by Southern
Response.
19) Please provide me with the details for the Minister responsible for
the New Zealand Police.
. I am requesting this in relation to my police report about the crimes
of Southern Response having been read, then unread, and remaining
re-unread for 21 months after it was submitted, where I have been told by
the police that I shouldn’t be speaking to the police because I’m
requesting that Government Employees be held accountable for their crimes.
These requests are being made on the grounds of public interest in
relation to the matters of transparency; participation; accountability;
administration of justice; health, safety and the environment.
Please note that the requests are not just for documents, but also
information. As such with regards to the Office of the Ombudsman guidance
document “The OIA for Ministers and Agencies” these requests for official
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his staff. As such unless there is a document which provides the
information requested, the Minister and staff must be questioned to
provide the held information from their memory. No sections of this
request can be denied based on Section 18(e) unless they are also denied
on Section 18(g).
Each of the points is an individual request for official information. If
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As per the Office of the Ombudsman guidance a clarification requested will
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Yours faithfully,
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From: David Seymour (MIN)
David Seymour
Dear Jason
Please find attached letter from Hon David Seymour (Minister for
Regulation) in response to your OIA request.
Kind regards,
Liam Collett| Private Secretary Executive Support
Office of Hon David Seymour
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From: Liam Collett
Sent: Monday, May 27, 2024 1:43 PM
To: [FOI #26604 email]
Subject: Official Information request - Crimes by Government Employees
Dear Jason,
Please find attached letter from Hon David Seymour in response to your OIA
request.
Kind regards,
Liam Collett| Private Secretary Executive Support
Office of Hon David Seymour
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From: David Seymour (MIN)
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2024 3:41 PM
To: [3][FOI #26604 email]
Subject: FW: Official Information request - Crimes by Government Employees
Dear Jason,
Thank you for your email in which you submitted an Official Information
Act request as follows:
1) Please provide me with all documents and information related to the
list of 3 circumstances being a fixed list that did not expand over time.
2) Please provide all documents and information on the steps taken to
ascertain if the Government would be willing to pay to settle the claim,
and the conclusions of that process.
3) Please provide me with all documents and information related to any
assessment of the facts that I presented to you about the prima facie
criminal fraud committed by Southern Response, in general but also
including if this would be likely to have significant policy implications
for Southern Response.
4) Please provide all documents and information related to the decision
that the above option was not offered as being available to settle my
claim.
5) Please provide all documents and information on how you have understood
the delay in settling the claim being related to the repair methodology
instead of the criminal fraud that they have committed against me.
6) Please provide all documents and information on the decision to not
address 12 pages of my letter in your response.
7) Please provide all documents and information related to the position of
Minister for Regulation involving the upholding of the rule of law.
8) Please provide all documents and information related to efforts
undertaken to understand the implications of rule of law in relation to
the 12 pages of my letter that were not addressed in your response.
9) Please provide all documents and information related to the decision to
address my letter as the shareholder Minister for Southern Response,
instead of as Associate Finance Minister, or Minister for Regulations,
when the majority of my letter was about financial crimes by Government
employees, and the covering up of those crimes by other Government
employees.
10) Please provide all documents and information related to your
communications with Southern Response regarding me, my claim, or my letter
to which you responded.
11) Please provide all documents and information related to David Clark’s
communications with Southern Response regarding their crimes, to which he
initially said did not exist, then said he lied about it not existing
because the information contained within the communications would impede
his ability to have frank conversations with Southern Response about the
crimes they are committing.
12) Please provide all documents and information related to Grant
Robertson’s communications with Southern Response regarding their crimes.
13) Please provide me with the details for the Minister responsible for
the Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act
2008.
14) Please provide me with the details for the Minister responsible for
the Ombudsman Act 1975.
15) Please provide me with the details for the Minister for Justice.
16) Please provide me with the details for any other shareholder Ministers
for Southern Response.
17) Please provide me with the details for the Minister responsible for
the Earthquake Commission.
18) Please provide me with the details for the Minister responsible for
Radio New Zealand.
19) Please provide me with the details for the Minister responsible for
the New Zealand Police.
Please note that the requests are not just for documents, but also
information. As such with regards to the Office of the Ombudsman guidance
document “The OIA for Ministers and Agencies” these requests for official
information include “information held in the memory of” the Minister and
his staff. As such unless there is a document which provides the
information requested, the Minister and staff must be questioned to
provide the held information from their memory. No sections of this
request can be denied based on Section 18(e) unless they are also denied
on Section 18(g)."
We received your request on Thursday 2 May 2024. We will endeavour to
respond to requests 2-6, 8-10, and 13-19 as soon as possible and in any
event no later than Wednesday 30 May 2024, being 20 working days after the
day your request was received. If we are unable to respond to your request
by then, we will notify you of an extension of that timeframe.
As per section 14 of the OIA, we are transferring requests 1, 11 and 12 to
Southern Response. David, as Associate Minister of Finance, does not hold
the information sought and the requested information is more closely
aligned with the functions of Southern Response. Southern Response will
respond to you directly regarding these requests.
As per section 14 of the OIA, we are transferring request 7 to Hon David
Seymour (Minister of Regulation) because your request is more closely
connected with the functions of the Minister of Regulation.
Kind regards,
Liam Collett| Private Secretary Executive Support
Office of Hon David Seymour
Deputy Prime Minister (from 31 May 2025) Minister for Regulation Associate
Minister of Education (Partnership Schools) Associate Minister of Justice
(Treaty Principles Bill) Associate Minister of Finance Associate Minister
of Health (Pharmac)
DDI 04 817 6819 I 7.6 Executive Wing, Parliament Buildings
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From: Canterbury Victim
<[4][FOI #26604 email]>
Sent: Thursday, May 2, 2024 11:26 AM
To: David Seymour (MIN) <[5][email address]>
Subject: DSOIA110 Official Information request - Crimes by Government
Employees
Dear David Seymour,
This is a request for Official Information based on your 1 May 2024 letter
to me regarding crimes committed by Southern Response.
Your response to my letter can be viewed at:
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On 2 April 2024 I requested that the New Zealand Government take over my
efforts regarding the prima facie criminal fraud committed by Southern
Response and the New Zealand laws violated by those with a duty of care
for the population of New Zealand. I also requested that the Government
pay for lawyers to come to a fair settlement of my unsettled home
insurance claim.
In your response you only mentioned the settlement of the claim.
You stated that you spoke with Southern Response and they provided you
with a list of 3 circumstances in which they have paid claimants legal
fees. You also stated that I did not meet the criteria for any of the
circumstances.
1) Please provide me with all documents and information related to the
list of 3 circumstances being a fixed list that did not expand over time.
. The reason that I am requesting this is because it would appear that
this list has expanded over time, and that there is no reason that it
could not be expanded further to accommodate my circumstances.
2) In my request I did not ask for Southern Response to agree to pay the
legal fees, I requested that the Government do so.
. Please provide all documents and information on the steps taken to
ascertain if the Government would be willing to pay to settle the claim,
and the conclusions of that process.
One of the circumstances listed where legal fees would be paid was “to
enable a policy holder to bring a test case that is likely to have
significant policy implications for Southern Response and its broader
claims portfolio. For example, the Dodds proceedings.”
3) Please provide me with all documents and information related to any
assessment of the facts that I presented to you about the prima facie
criminal fraud committed by Southern Response, in general but also
including if this would be likely to have significant policy implications
for Southern Response.
4) Please provide all documents and information related to the decision
that the above option was not offered as being available to settle my
claim.
In your reply you wrote “I understand that the root of the delay in
settling your claim is a dispute between you and Southern Response on the
proposed repair methodology for your property…”
5) Please provide all documents and information on how you have understood
the delay in settling the claim being related to the repair methodology
instead of the criminal fraud that they have committed against me.
In your response you only addressed information contained in two pages of
the fourteen page letter.
6) Please provide all documents and information on the decision to not
address 12 pages of my letter in your response.
It is commonly understood that the position of Minister for Regulation
involves upholding the rule of law.
7) Please provide all documents and information related to the position of
Minister for Regulation involving the upholding of the rule of law.
8) Please provide all documents and information related to efforts
undertaken to understand the implications of rule of law in relation to
the 12 pages of my letter that were not addressed in your response.
In your response you have stated that you are responding as a shareholder
Minister for Southern Response. When the office of Christopher Luxon told
me they had forwarded the communication to the office of the Minister for
Regulations. When I received confirmation of receipt from your office I
was told it fell under your Associate Finance portfolio.
9) Please provide all documents and information related to the decision to
address my letter as the shareholder Minister for Southern Response,
instead of as Associate Finance Minister, or Minister for Regulations,
when the majority of my letter was about financial crimes by Government
employees, and the covering up of those crimes by other Government
employees.
Regarding shareholder Minister for Southern Response communication with
Southern Response.
10) Please provide all documents and information related to your
communications with Southern Response regarding me, my claim, or my letter
to which you responded.
11) Please provide all documents and information related to David Clark’s
communications with Southern Response regarding their crimes, to which he
initially said did not exist, then said he lied about it not existing
because the information contained within the communications would impede
his ability to have frank conversations with Southern Response about the
crimes they are committing.
12) Please provide all documents and information related to Grant
Robertson’s communications with Southern Response regarding their crimes.
In my letter I mentioned that I would need to address a number of
Ministers if the Government decided not to take on the responsibility of
ensuring accountability for the unlawful acts that I have experienced and
been instructed to investigate by the Serious Fraud Office.
13) Please provide me with the details for the Minister responsible for
the Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act
2008.
. I am requesting this in relation to the Insurance and Financial
Services Ombudsman Scheme violating the Act.
14) Please provide me with the details for the Minister responsible for
the Ombudsman Act 1975.
. I am requesting this in relation to the Ombudsman, Peter Boshier, and
staff violating the Act.
15) Please provide me with the details for the Minister for Justice.
. I am requesting this in relation to Her Excellency The Right
Honourable Dame Cindy Kiro, GNZM, QSO Governor-General of New Zealand via
Government House staff stating that I need to speak to the Minister of
Justice to arrange the removal of Peter Boshier from his position of
Ombudsman of New Zealand.
16) Please provide me with the details for any other shareholder Ministers
for Southern Response.
. I am requesting this in relation to the financial crimes committed by
Southern Response staff and your decision to not address these matters in
your response.
17) Please provide me with the details for the Minister responsible for
the Earthquake Commission.
. I am requesting this in relation to EQC working with Southern
Response to hide criminal fraud.
18) Please provide me with the details for the Minister responsible for
Radio New Zealand.
. I am requesting this in relation to RNZ unlawfully destroying
official information relating to the crimes committed by Southern
Response.
19) Please provide me with the details for the Minister responsible for
the New Zealand Police.
. I am requesting this in relation to my police report about the crimes
of Southern Response having been read, then unread, and remaining
re-unread for 21 months after it was submitted, where I have been told by
the police that I shouldn’t be speaking to the police because I’m
requesting that Government Employees be held accountable for their crimes.
These requests are being made on the grounds of public interest in
relation to the matters of transparency; participation; accountability;
administration of justice; health, safety and the environment.
Please note that the requests are not just for documents, but also
information. As such with regards to the Office of the Ombudsman guidance
document “The OIA for Ministers and Agencies” these requests for official
information include “information held in the memory of” the Minister and
his staff. As such unless there is a document which provides the
information requested, the Minister and staff must be questioned to
provide the held information from their memory. No sections of this
request can be denied based on Section 18(e) unless they are also denied
on Section 18(g).
Each of the points is an individual request for official information. If
any of the responses need to be extended that should not impact delivery
of responses for those that do not require an extension. Any decision to
extend a deadline should be accompanied with the grounds for the decision.
Any information that is denied should be accompanied with the grounds for
the decision to deny the information. These should include the dates and
times that the Minister and staff was questioned about their memory of the
official information.
As per the Office of the Ombudsman guidance a clarification requested will
only reset the deadline for the individual requests where a clarification
is provided, the remainder of the requests for official information in
this communication will have the original deadline remain.
Further in relation to the Office of the Ombudsman guidance “The agency’s
primary legal obligation is to notify the requester of the decision on the
request ‘as soon as reasonably practicable’. The reference to 20 working
days is not the de facto goal but the absolute maximum (unless it is
extended appropriately).” If the notification does happen on the last day
of the 20 working day deadline please provide the grounds for why the
decision was made that it was not ‘reasonably practicable’ to provide the
decision sooner.
Yours faithfully,
.
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Dear Jason,
Please find attached a response to your OIA request (with enclosures).
Thanks
Tom
OIA Team
Southern Response Earthquake Services Ltd
PO Box 9052
Christchurch
[1]www.southernresponse.co.nz
Southern Response Earthquake Services Ltd is the government-owned company
responsible for settling claims by AMI policyholders for Canterbury
earthquake damage which occurred before 5 April 2012 (the date AMI was
sold to IAG).
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