
30 September 2025
David Adamson
By email:
[FYI request #32202 email]
Ref:
SBOIA25-885
Dear David
Response to your request for information
Thank you for your request under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) on 2 September
to the Minister of Health, Hon Simeon Brown. You requested:
“Please provide al communication between you and your staff (electorate and
Ministerial), and between your staff, regarding the signage put up at your office on 2
September 2025 regarding the nurses’ strike. This includes but is not limited to
emails, texts, messenger services, recol ections of conversations between your staff,
and between you and your staff.”
I am interpreting your request for al communications between Minister Brown and his staff,
and al communications between members of the Minister’s staff, as covering
communications relating to the topic you have raised in their capacity as a Minister of the
Crown, or as staff working for a Minister of the Crown, as per section 2(a)(i ) of the Act, and
not communications sent or received by Hon Simeon Brown in his capacity as the Member
of Parliament for Pakuranga.
As such, section 18(g)(i) of the Act applies as the information you have requested is not held
by our Office, and we have no grounds for believing that the information is held by another
department.
Under section 28(3) of the Act, you have the right to ask the Ombudsman to review any
decisions made under this request. The Ombudsman may be contacted by email at:
[email address] or by cal ing 0800 802 602.
Yours sincerely
Brian Anderton
Senior Ministerial Advisor