16 February 2022
Chuck Schooner
[FYI request #18390 email]
Ref: OIA-2021/22-0931
Dear Chuck Schooner
Official Information Act request for Government agency spending
Thank you for your Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) request received on
31 January 2022. You requested:
“Are you able to please provide the following information going back to include 2018
and onwards and break down in excel format and graphed if possible.
1. Total Number of Employees in each government agency broken down to include
full time workers, contractors and part time workers Range of salaries -
- lowest to highest Median Salary Range of contractor rates -
- lowest to highest Median contractor rates
2. Total Cost of Salaries & Contractor Wages
3. Total Floor Area Leased in Wellington
4. Average sick days taken per agency
5. Estimate number of employees in Wellington CBD per agency
- specifically looking for how many employees were in CBD in 2018 & 2019
- versus 2020 & 2021
- and chart this against total employees
6. Total Public Sector Wage Bill as above in the four years
7. Total Retail Spending in Wellington CBD for the last four years
8. Income Generation for agencies where possible such as Kiwirail, NZ Post etc and
profits or losses
- revenue and spending only not asset value information
- wanting to see if they cover costs
9. Where agencies aren’t generating revenue can you please provide budgeted cost
for agency versus actual cost of agency
10. Please also provide any and all productivity measures for the agencies if any"
The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC) is only able to respond on
information relating to this agency. For information regarding other organisations, you need
engage with them directly.
Responses to questions one to five are available as part of the DPMC and National
Emergency Management Agency’s Annual Review, published on the Parliament website.
Information in the scope of this request is available up until 30 June 2021 and information
from 1 July 2021 will be available in DPMC’s next reporting cycle.
Executive Wing, Parliament Buildings, Wellington, New Zealand 6011
4487552
64 4 817 9698 www.dpmc.govt.nz
In response to your first and second questions, data up to 30 June 2020 is available at:
https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/submissions-and-
advice/document/53SCGA_EVI_104457_GA372/dpmc-and-nema-responses-to-written-
questions-appendices In response to your third and fourth questions, data up to 30 June 2020 is available at:
https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/submissions-and-
advice/document/53SCGA_EVI_104457_GA370/dpmc-and-nema-responses-to-written-
questions-1-150
In response to your fifth question, data is available for the year ending:
• 30 June 2018 at:
235bdaab54cb2ea02c7bd8fc20e0c10ad02d6270 (www.parliament.nz)
• 30 June 2019 at:
787f5a5c6dddf6955067000b15a905aa624d107a (www.parliament.nz)
• 30 June 2020 at:
d08556580907a224da852bd5dade970f6f9356a8 (www.parliament.nz)
• 30 June 2021 will be published in the coming weeks on the Parliament website:
https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/scl/governance-and-administration/
Responses to questions six, eight, nine and ten are available in Annual Reports for each of
the requested years on the DPMC website:
https://dpmc.govt.nz/publications Accordingly, I have refused this part of your request under section 18(d) of the Act, as the
information is or will soon be proactively released.
DPMC does not hold any information regarding question seven of your request, therefore I
am refusing this part of your request under section 18(e) of the Act as
the document alleged
to contain the information requested does not exist or, despite reasonable efforts to locate it,
cannot be found.
You have the right to ask the Ombudsman to investigate and review my decision under
section 28(3) of the Act.
This response may be published on the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet’s
website during our regular publication cycle. Typically, information is released monthly, or as
otherwise determined. Your personal information including name and contact details will be
removed for publication.
Yours sincerely
Clare Ward
Executive Director,
Strategy, Governance and Engagement
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