Use of personal email accounts
Carl Wiggin made this Official Information request to David Seymour
The request was refused by David Seymour.
      From: Carl Wiggin
      
    
    Dear David Seymour,
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 account 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
        From: David Seymour (MIN)
        David Seymour
      
    
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        From: David Seymour (MIN)
        David Seymour
      
    
    Dear Carl
 
Thank you for your email in which you submitted an Official Information
 Act request as follows:
 
Please provide a record of any/all emails forward between your offical
 email account and any personal email accounts.
 
We received your request on Tuesday 22 October 2024. We will endeavour to
 respond to your request as soon as possible and in any event no later than
 Wednesday 20 November 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.
 
Kind regards, Annette
 
Annette Gratkowski | Private Secretary Executive
 Support
 
 
Office of Hon David Seymour
[1]A pink and white Deputy Prime Minister (from 31 May 2025)
 emblem with two
 women holding flags Minister for Regulation
 Description Associate Minister of Education
 automatically
 generated Associate Minister of Justice
Associate Minister of Finance
Associate Minister of Health
 
DDI 04 817 6333 | 7.6 Executive Wing, Parliament
 Buildings
 
DSOIA303
 
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        From: Andrew Ketels
      
    
    Dear Carl,
 
I writing to ask whether you could clarify your request.
 
Does your request only include the subject lines of any emails that were
 forwarded from the Minister’s work email account to his personal email
 account?
 
Or are you also seeking the subject lines of any emails that were
 forwarded from the Minister’s personal email account to his work email
 account?
 
Kind regards,
Andrew Ketels.
 
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      From: Carl Wiggin
      
    
    Dear Andrew Ketels,
Thanks for asking for clarification.
I am only interested in emails from parliament to personal.
Yours sincerely,
Carl Wiggin
        From: David Seymour (MIN)
        David Seymour
      
    
    Dear Carl
 
Thank you for your OIA request of 22 October 2024.
 
Your request has been considered under the Official Information Act 1982
 (the Act).
 
This office holds none of the information you have requested. I am
 therefore refusing your request under section 18(e) of the OIA because the
 information you have requested does not exist.
 
You have the right to seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman of
 this decision. Information about how to make a complaint is available at
 [1]www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or freephone 0800 802 602.
 
Kind regards,
 
 
 
Office of Hon David Seymour
[2]A pink and Deputy Prime Minister (from 31 May 2025)
 white emblem
 with two women Minister for Regulation
 holding flags Associate Minister of Education
 Description
 automatically Associate Minister of Justice
 generated
 Associate Minister of Finance
Associate Minister of Health
 
7.6 Executive Wing, Parliament Buildings, Wellington
 
DSOIA303
 
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