A review prompted by the Prime Minister's practice of deleting his text messages has found that text messages are official public records if sent or received in his capacity as Prime Minister, but not if sent as party leader or if they are personal texts.

The report by Chief Archivist Marilyn Little described Prime Minister John Key's habit of deleting texts as "pragmatic" and said texts in his capacity as a party leader, or private texts were not considered public records, even if sent on a ministerial phone.

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