Dear Christopher Luxon,

Please provide any communications you have sent or received, including text messages, emails, other messaging services, or recollections of conversions and phone calls regarding Chris Bishop making inappropriate comments at the AMA awards. This includes any discussion around if it is appropriate for the Leader of the House and a senior Minister to be making these comments and if, when considering the Government’s stance of punishing of the Māori Party for performing a haka in the House, there is concern around optics and the Government appearing racist.

Please identify if you’ve deemed any messages outside your role as Prime Minister and instead Leader of the National Party (and therefore not included in this OIA) so this can potentially be tested with the Ombudsman if necessary.

Yours faithfully,

David