25 March 2024
RS Grant
[FYI request #26006 email]
Dear RS Grant
Thank you for your request of 6 March 2024, transferred from Hon David Seymour, made
under the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA) as fol ows:
In March 2023 the RBNZ responded to an OIA request that I had submitted regarding
changes in staffing levels between December 2017 and December 2022. In this
response they advised that during that five-
their headcount from 4.0 to 30.4 FTEs. During the same period, their
Communications staff had increased from 10.6 to 34.9 FTEs.
Please provide any information that you have received regarding these increases,
including any justifications that you have been provided for such a growth in
headcount
A search of my records has confirmed that I hold no information within scope of your request.
Therefore, I am refusing your request under section 18(e) of the OIA that the document
al eged to contain the information requested does not exist or, despite reasonable efforts to
locate it, cannot be found.
You have the right to seek an investigation and review of this response by the Ombudsman,
in accordance with section 28(3) of the OIA. The relevant details can be found on the
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz.
Yours sincerely
Hon Nicola Wil is
Minister of Finance
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