25 November 2021
Mark Paulson
[FYI request #17400 email]
Tēnā koe Mark,
Thank you for your email of 29 October 2021 to Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga | the Ministry of
Education requesting the following information:
1) The number of positions affected by the restructure I.e. How many positions were
disestablished and how many were created? I am not interested in the number of
positions that simply moved or had changes in reporting lines unless the significance/size
of the roles significantly changed.
2) I would also like you to tell me the net cost impact of the changes, ideally by setting
out the total costs of roles disestablished, and the total cost of new roles created,
while I would prefer this to be itemised individually for each role, if it makes it easier
then I am happy to receive the summary information (for eg: 4 roles dissestablished
with salary savings total ing $400,000 per annum and overhead cost savings total ing
$100,000 pa. And 2 new roles created with new salary costs of $300,000 and overhead
costs of $60,000). I do not want or need specific salary levels for any individual person or
position, but rather the overall costs and savings to the Ministry. So please use salary
bands or similar to protect privacy etc but I do want to have a figure with some integrity I.e
Not an estimate that has a range of hundreds of thousands of dollars. I appreciate that
some new roles may not have been fil ed as yet, if so please use a sensible figure for
salary and other costs presumably 100% of the relevant job band.
3) I would also like to receive a copy of any and all individual "Briefings for the
Incoming Deputy Secretary" or any documents with a similar name or purpose that
may have been prepared for each Deputy secretary of business groups.
4) Please also advise the direct external costs of preparing any such briefing materials
for deputy secretaries i.e. any costs that are not covered by existing ministry
expenditure eg: I am not interested in costing the hours of any existing ministry employees
who were assigned to prepare such documentation, but I am interested in knowing of any
costs that were specifically incurred just to do this task eg if a new person/s was hired for
this purpose, or if an external party eg contractors/consultants or advisers to the Ministry
whether individuals or firms, or graphic design or printing or related publication costs were
contracted to do this work.
Your request has been considered under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act).
The Ministry needs to extend the timeframe of our response to your request by 15 working
days, pursuant to section 15A(1)(b) of the Act, as consultations necessary to make a decision
on the request are such that a proper response to the request cannot reasonably be made
within the original time limit.
OIA: 1275634
National Office, Mātauranga House, 33 Bowen Street, Wellington 6011
PO Box 1666, Wellington 6140. Phone: +64 4 463 8000 Fax: +64 4 463 8001
education.govt.nz
For this reason, you can expect to receive a response to your request by
17 December 2021.
I am hopeful that we wil be able to respond to you before this date.
Please be advised that should you have any concerns regarding this extension you have the
right to ask an Ombudsman to investigate our decision to extend the timeframe. You can do
this by writing to
[email address] or Office of the Ombudsman, PO Box
10152, Wellington 6143.
Nāku noa, nā
Lorraine Monahan
Manager, Government, Executive and Ministerial Services
Te Puna Rangatōpū
education.govt.nz