Grace Wil iams
By email:
[FYI request #32361 email]
Ref:
SBOIA-905
Dear Grace
Response to your request for information
Thank you for your request under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) on 23
September 2025 to Hon Simeon Brown, Minister of the Crown.
You requested:
“For each staff member in your Office, including the Minister himself, could you
please provide the fol owing information for the month of September.
- How many outgoing phone cal s they made
- How many incoming phone cal s they received
- How many emails they sent
- How many emails they received
To be clear, I am looking for a total number for each of the above categories for the
month of September (1 September to the date of this request), for each staff member
+ the Minister.
You do not have to name the staff member; the job title is enough.”
On 7 October 2025, our Office contacted you to clarify and refine your request, as it was
likely to involve searching through a substantial amount of information and could therefore
have section 18(f) of the Act applied.
On 8 October 2025, you confirmed refinement of your initial request to the fol owing:
“I would like to keep the scope of this request as al staff please, including private
secretaries. I am wil ing to limit the timeframe to 3 working days, the 15th, 16th and
17th of September.”
I am interpreting your request for the number of phone cal s made and received by each staff
member to refer to cal s made and received on the cel ular devices issued by their respective
government agency employers.
Searches of our information systems have identified material within the scope of your
request. The number of phone cal s made and received, and the number of emails sent and
received for each relevant staff member in our Office, are outlined in the table below. Please
note that where ‘N/A’ appears, the staff member did not have a work cel ular device issued
at the time.
Staff member
Calls in
Calls out
Emails in
Emails out
Minister
22
57
37
12
Senior Private
21
24
646
35
Secretary/Senior
Ministerial
Advisor
Senior Press
60
33
315
61
Secretary
Ministerial
17
10
357
34
Advisor
Ministerial
4
7
262
15
Advisor
Private
18
24
313
99
Secretary
Private
0
0
318
72
Secretary
Private
14
9
218
54
Secretary
Private
N/A
N/A
170
108
Secretary
Private
0
0
152
44
Secretary
Private
Section 18(g)(i ) Section 18(g)(i ) 59
52
Secretary
of the Act
of the Act
applies.
applies.
Private
12
18
195
49
Secretary
Private
16
12
280
65
Secretary
Private
3
6
247
31
Secretary
Private
5
2
162
32
Secretary
Private
3
5
222
129
Secretary
Private
3
5
258
80
Secretary
Yours sincerely
Brian Anderton
Senior Ministerial Advisor