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What correspondence, if any, including letters, emails, text messages, WhatsApp, signal, or any other form of electronic communication, has the Minister sent or received from any other Minister about Stats NZ numbers showed the Pacific unemployment rate rising to 12.3 percent by date and title?

Answered Question 5049 (2026)
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Teanau Tuiono

List MP · Green Party

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  • What correspondence, if any, including letters, emails, text messages, WhatsApp, signal, or any other form of electronic communication, has the Minister sent or received from any other Minister about Stats NZ numbers showed the Pacific unemployment rate rising to 12.3 percent by date and title?

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Rt Hon Christopher Luxon

Member for Botany · National Party · Prime Minister

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In my capacity as Prime Minister, I have neither sent nor received correspondence from any Minister of the Crown relating to the unemployment rate for Pacific peoples released by Stats NZ.