30 September 2024
Jimmy King
[FYI request #28480 email]
Ref: PMO OIA 114-2024-25
Dear Jimmy King
Official Information Act request: PM's media request diary
Thank you for your Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) request, received on 23 September
2024. You requested:
“Prime minister Christopher Luxon media request diary.”
On 24 September 2024 you refined your request to the following:
“I would like it to be from March of this year to now. I am looking for his media request,
how many request he has had to go on the radio or TV or how many interviews he has
declined.”
The following information is covered by your request and is publicly available on the Beehive
website:
Item
Date
Document description Website address
1
1 - 31
Rt Hon Christopher
https://www.beehive.govt.nz/sites/default
August
Luxon Ministerial Diary
/files/2024-
2024
Summary
09/Prime%20Minister%20proactive%20d
iary%20release%20-
%20Aug%202024.pdf
2
1 - 31
Rt Hon Christopher
https://www.beehive.govt.nz/sites/default
July
Luxon Ministerial Diary
/files/2024-
2024
Summary
08/Prime%20Minister%20proactive%20d
iary%20release%20-
%20Jul%202024.pdf
3
1 - 30
Rt Hon Christopher
https://www.beehive.govt.nz/sites/default
June
Luxon Ministerial Diary
/files/2024-
2024
Summary
07/Prime%20Minister%20proactive%20d
iary%20release%20-
%20Jun%202024.pdf
4
1 - 31
Rt Hon Christopher
https://www.beehive.govt.nz/sites/default
May
Luxon Ministerial Diary
/files/2024-
2024
Summary
06/Prime%20Minister%20proactive%20d
iary%20release%20-
%20May%202024.pdf
5
1 - 30
Rt Hon Christopher
https://www.beehive.govt.nz/sites/default
April
Luxon Ministerial Diary
/files/2024-
2024
Summary
05/Prime%20Minister%20proactive%20d
iary%20release%20-
%20Apr%202024.pdf
6
1 - 31
Rt Hon Christopher
https://www.beehive.govt.nz/sites/default
March
Luxon Ministerial Diary
/files/2024-
2024
Summary
04/Prime%20Minister%20proactive%20d
iary%20release%20-
%20Mar%202024.pdf
Accordingly, I have refused your request for the documents listed in the above table under
section 18(d) of the Act – the information requested is or will soon be publicly available.
I have assessed the extent of work to collate the remaining information you have requested. I
have determined the manual work required to collate the information would impair efficient
administration as the information requested is not held in an easily retrievable format.
Accordingly, I am refusing your request under section 18(f) of the Act - the information
requested cannot be made available without substantial collation or research. Before I
reached this decision, I considered the factors covered in sections 18A(1) and 18B of the
Act, and charging you for the information or consulting further with you would not allow the
request to be answered.
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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