Ref: 208788
Friday, 13 August 2021
Das Williams
By email to [FYI request #16059 email]
Tēnā koe Das,
Response to your request for Official Information
On 14 July 2021, you requested from the Human Rights Commission (“the Commission”) the
following information:
1.
Teams operating in the commission since 2011- present
2.
The ethnic make-up (i.e. white, maori, pacific, etc.) of staff in each team since
2011- present.
On 11 August 2021, we notified you that an extension was required to provide the
information you requested.
Please see below a table of the teams that have been operating in the Commission since
2011.

2011  2012  2013  2014  2015  2016  2017  2018  2019  2020
Corporate Services
Y
Y
Y

Y
Y




Strategic Policy
Y
Y
Y







External Relations
Y
Y
Y







Enquiries and
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Complaints
Ahi Kaa/ Kaiwhakarite
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Commissioner Services

Y






Y
Human Rights Network



Y
Y





People and



Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Performance
Human



Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Rights Communications
Legal, Research and



Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Monitoring
Special Projects





Y
Y



Finance and Business









Y
Services
Advisory, Research and







Y
Y
Y
Engagement
As the Commission is a small organisation, we only report on the overall ethnicity stats of
Commission, not on individual teams. The ethnicity stats shown below have been collated
from our Annual Reports which are publicly available on our website. Please note that from
2017 the Commission changed the way that ethnicity of staff was reported from percentages
to number of staff who identified as an ethnicity. Please also note that in some years, staff
could identify as more than one ethnicity.
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PO Box 10424, The Terrace, Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand
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Infoline Tol  free 0800 496 877 / TTY [Human Rights Commission request email]  www.hrc.co.nz

FY and % or number of staff
Ethnicity
2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18 2018/19
NZ
European/
50%
50%
72%
72.09%
64.44%
70.73%
27
26
Pakeha
Māori
29%
29%
30%
35.56%
31.11%
29.27%
8
9
Pacific
4%
4%
4%
6.98%
8.88%
4.88%
4
10
Asian
13%
13%
13%
11.63%
6.66%
12.20%
Not recorded
European
This ethnicity was not recorded in these years
7
Other
4%
4%
9%
11.63%
15.56%
12.20%
12
11
Please note, the Commission did not report its staff ethnicity data in the 2019/20 financial
year as it was not collected in time of the Annual Report.
Alternative avenues
If you are unhappy with this response, under the Of icial Information Act you are entitled to
complain to the Ombudsman’s Of ice. Information about how to make a complaint is
available at www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or on freephone 0800 802 602.
If you have any further queries about this response, please feel free to contact me directly.

Nāku noa, nā

Jaimee Paenga
Legal Adviser

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