Letter, email or oral statement in support of Tim Jago
Catherine Vovna made this Official Information request to David Seymour
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      From: Catherine Vovna
      
    
    Dear David Seymour,
I am requesting information around any form of support by yourself to Tim Jago in regards to his court case for sexual offences.
I wish to know if you made phone calls, stood as a witness, wrote a letter of support to the courts or ministry of police (or similar) as a friend, colleague or politician that could have influenced Mr Jago's court case and/or sentencing.
Yours faithfully,
Catherine Vovna
        From: David Seymour (MIN)
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        From: David Seymour (MIN)
        David Seymour
      
    
    Dear Catherine
 
Thank you for your email in which you submitted an Official Information
 Act request as follows:
 
I am requesting information around any form of support by yourself to Tim
 Jago in regards to his court case for sexual offences.
I wish to know if you made phone calls, stood as a witness, wrote a letter
 of support to the courts or ministry of police (or similar) as a friend,
 colleague or politician that could have influenced Mr Jago's court case
 and/or sentencing.
 
We received your request on Thursday 20 February 2025.  We will endeavour
 to respond to your request as soon as possible and in any event no later
 than Thursday 20 March 2025, 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,
 
 
 
Office of Hon David Seymour
[1]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
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 Associate Minister of Finance
Associate Minister of Health
 
7.6 Executive Wing, Parliament Buildings, Wellington
DSOIA412
 
 
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        From: David Seymour (MIN)
        David Seymour
      
    
    Dear Catherine
 
Thank you for your OIA request of 20 February 2025.
 
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
DSOIA412
 
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