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Curran admits possibly more emails with Handley from private email account

Author
Lucy Bennett, NZ Herald,
Publish Date
Tue, 11 Sep 2018, 11:38AM
Former Government Digital Services minister Clare Curran. Photo \ Getty Images
Former Government Digital Services minister Clare Curran. Photo \ Getty Images

Curran admits possibly more emails with Handley from private email account

Author
Lucy Bennett, NZ Herald,
Publish Date
Tue, 11 Sep 2018, 11:38AM

Former Government Digital Services minister Clare Curran has admitted there may be more emails between her and entrepreneur Derek Handley on he private email account.

Curran, who resigned as a minister last week, citing intolerable pressure following her sacking from the Cabinet, earlier released correspondence from her Gmail account between her and Handley over the secret meeting she held with him, which ultimately led to her demotion.

Today, while responding to reporters' questions over whether she had released all the emails relating to her dealings with Handley, Curran admitted there may be more.

"They are the full chain of emails that related to the meeting that I had with him in February.

"There may be some more."

Curran declined to say what the subject of those emails was.

"As I've said. I've given an assurance to the Prime Minister that I'm archiving my emails, and that's what I'm doing. I'm going through a process to do it and I haven't completed that process yet."

Curran was stripped of her open government and government digital services responsibilities after failing to disclose the February meeting.

The meeting was over his interest in the vacant government chief technology officer role.

It was held at 8pm in Curran's Beehive office with nobody else present, and was not put in her diary.

The next month Curran responded to a written question from National but failed to disclose the meeting.

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