James Webb
[FYI request #29603 email]
Dear James
Official Information Request
Reference MOSR 2024-0371
I refer to your official information request dated 18 December 2024 received by the office of
Hon Nicola Willis for:
“Please provide all advice your office has received on staff cuts in the public sector.
Please provide all briefings, reports, and updates your office has received on public sector
staff cuts. This should include all formal and informal informal channels.
Please provide all communications between staff in your office on public sector updates.
This should include all emails, instant messages and texts.
Please provide all communications you have sent relating to public sector staff cuts and
updates your office has received. Please include any initial communications if your
response is to external communications.”
I am responding to the request as it pertains to the Public Service portfolio.
Information publicly available
The following information is covered by your request and is or will soon be publicly available
on the Public Service Commission’s website at the links provided for in the table below. I am
therefore refusing this part of your request under section 18(d) of the Official Information Act
1982 (OIA) on the grounds the information requested is or will soon be publicly available.
Item Date
Document Description
Website address
1
28 March 2024
2024-0099 – REPORT – Agency
https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/
Change Activity as at 28 March
assets/DirectoryFile/REPORT-
2024
Agency-Change-Activity-as-at-28-
March-2024.pdf
2
2 April 2024
2024-0101 –REPORT – Agency
https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/
Change Activity as at 2 April 2024
assets/DirectoryFile/REPORT-
Agency-Change-Activity-as-at-2-
April-2024.pdf
Private Bag 18041, Parliament Buildings, Wellington 6160, New Zealand | +64 4 817 6808 |
[email address]
3
4 April 2024
2024-0102 - REPORT - Agency
https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/
Change Activity as at 4 April 2024
assets/DirectoryFile/REPORT-
Agency-Change-Activity-as-at-4-
April-2024.pdf
4
9 April 2024
2024-0110 - REPORT - Agency
https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/
Change Activity as at 9 April 2024
assets/DirectoryFile/REPORT-
Agency-Change-Activity-as-at-9-
April-2024.pdf
5
11 April 2024
2024-0112 - REPORT - Agency
https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/
Change Activity as at 11 April 2024
assets/DirectoryFile/REPORT-
Agency-Change-Activity-as-at-11-
April-2024.pdf
6
16 April 2024
2024-0115 - REPORT - Agency
https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/
Change Activity as at 16 April 2024
assets/DirectoryFile/REPORT-
Agency-Change-Activity-as-at-16-
April-2024.pdf
7
18 April 2024
2024-0123 - REPORT - Agency
https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/
Change Activity as at 18 April 2024
assets/DirectoryFile/REPORT-
Agency-Change-Activity-as-at-18-
April-2024.pdf
8
23 April 2024
2024-0126 - REPORT - Agency
https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/
Change Activity as at 23 April 2024
assets/DirectoryFile/REPORT-
Agency-Change-Activity-as-at-23-
April-2024.pdf
9
30 April 2024
2024-0130 - REPORT - Agency
https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/
Change Activity as at 30 April 2024
assets/DirectoryFile/REPORT-
Agency-Change-Activity-as-at-30-
April-2024.pdf
10 2 May 2024
2024-0133 - REPORT – Agency
https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/
Change Activity as at 2 May 2024
assets/DirectoryFile/REPORT-
Agency-Change-Activity-as-at-2-
May-2024-v2.pdf
11 7 May 2024
2024-0141 – REPORT – Agency
https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/
Change Activity as at 7 May 2024
assets/DirectoryFile/REPORT-
Agency-Change-Activity-as-at-7-
May-2024.pdf
12 15 May 2024
2024-0146 – REPORT – Agency
https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/
Change Activity as at 15 May 2024
assets/DirectoryFile/REPORT-
Agency-Change-Activity-as-at-15-
May-2024.pdf
13 16 May 2024
2024-0152 – REPORT – Agency
https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/
Change Activity as at 16 May 2024
assets/DirectoryFile/REPORT-
Agency-Change-Activity-as-at-16-
May-2024.pdf
14 21 May 2024
2024-0163 – REPORT – Agency
https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/
Change Activity as at 21 May 2024
assets/DirectoryFile/REPORT-
Agency-Change-Activity-as-at-21-
May-2024.pdf
15 23 May 2024
2024-0157 – REPORT – Agency
https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/
Change Activity as at 23 May 2024
assets/DirectoryFile/REPORT-
Agency-Change-Activity-as-at-23-
May-2024.pdf
16 28 May 2024
2024-0168 – REPORT – Agency
https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/
Change Activity as at 28 May 2024
assets/DirectoryFile/REPORT-
Agency-Change-Activity-as-at-28-
May-2024.pdf
17 4 June 2024
2024-0172 – REPORT – Agency
https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/
Change Activity as at 4 June 2024
assets/DirectoryFile/REPORT-
Agency-Change-Activity-as-at-4-
June-2024.pdf
18 6 June 2024
2024-0173 - REPORT – Agency
https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/
Change Activity as at 6 June 2024
assets/DirectoryFile/REPORT-
Agency-Change-Activity-as-at-6-
June-2024.pdf
19 13 June 2024
2024-0177 - REPORT – Agency
https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/
Change Activity as at 13 June 2024
assets/DirectoryFile/REPORT-
Agency-Change-Activity-as-at-13-
June-2024.pdf
20 20 June 2024
2024-0180 – REPORT – Agency
https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/
Change Activity as at 20 June 2024
assets/DirectoryFile/REPORT-
Agency-Change-Activity-as-at-20-
June-2024.pdf
21 26 June 2024
2024-0182 - REPORT – Agency
https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/
Change Activity as at 26 June 2024
assets/DirectoryFile/REPORT-
Agency-Change-Activity-as-at-26-
June-2024.pdf
22 4 July 2024
2024-0189 – REPORT – Agency
https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/
Change Activity as at 4 July 2024
assets/DirectoryFile/REPORT-
Agency-Change-Activity-as-at-4-
July-2024.pdf
23 11 July 2024
2024-0197 – REPORT – Agency
https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/
Change Activity as at 11 July 2024
assets/DirectoryFile/REPORT-
Agency-Change-Activity-as-at-11-
July-2024.pdf
24 18 July 2024
2024-0206 - REPORT – Agency
https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/
Change Activity as at 18 July 2024
assets/DirectoryFile/REPORT-
Agency-Change-Activity-as-at-18-
July-2024.pdf
25 25 July 2024
2024-0216 - REPORT – Agency
https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/
Change Activity as at 25 July 2024
assets/DirectoryFile/REPORT-
Agency-Change-Activity-as-at-25-
July-2024.pdf
26 1 August 2024
2024-0227 - REPORT – Agency
https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/
Change Activity as at 1 August
assets/DirectoryFile/REPORT-
2024
Agency-Change-Activity-as-at-1-
August-2024.pdf
27 8 August 2024
2024-0237 - REPORT – Agency
https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/
Change Activity as at 8 August
assets/DirectoryFile/REPORT-
2024
Agency-Change-Activity-as-at-8-
August-2024.pdf
28 15 August 2024
2024-0249 - REPORT – Agency
https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/
Change Activity as at 15 August
assets/DirectoryFile/REPORT-
2024
Agency-Change-Activity-as-at-15-
August-2024.pdf
29 22 August 2024
2024-0255 - REPORT – Agency
https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/
Change Activity as at 22 August
assets/DirectoryFile/REPORT-
2024
Agency-Change-Activity-as-at-22-
August-2024.pdf
30 14 December 2023
2023-0316 – REPORT – Public Publicly available soon
Service Commission financial
position
31 7 February 2024
2024-0033 –
REPORT – Fiscal Publicly available soon
Sustainability Programme
32 29 August 2024
2024-0265 – REPORT – Agency Publicly available soon
Change Activity as at 29 August
2024
33 5 September 2024
2024-0276 – REPORT – Agency Publicly available soon
Change Activity as at 5 September
2024
34 12 September 2024
2024-0283 – REPORT – Agency Publicly available soon
Change Activity as at 12
September 2024
35 26 September 2024
2024-0282 – REPORT – Outcome Publicly available soon
of the Fiscal Sustainability
Programme
36
20 September 2024
Excerpt from weekly report week Publicly available soon
ending 20 September 2024
37
27 September 2024
Excerpt from weekly report week Publicly available soon
ending 27 September 2024
38
4 October 2024
Excerpt from weekly report week Publicly available soon
ending 4 October 2024
39
11 October 2024
Excerpt from weekly report week Publicly available soon
ending 11 October 2024
40
1 November 2024
Excerpt from weekly report week Publicly available soon
ending 1 November 2024
41
8 November 2024
Excerpt from weekly report week Publicly available soon
ending 8 November 2024
42
29 November 2024
Excerpts from weekly report Publicly available soon
week ending 29 November 2024
Information to be withheld
I am refusing parts three and four of your request under section 18(f) of the OIA on the grounds
that substantial collation or research is required to make the information available.
If you wish to discuss this decision with us, please feel free to contact Misty Mossman at
[email address].
You have the right to seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman of this decision.
Information about how to make a complaint is available
at www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or
freephone 0800 802 602.
Yours sincerely
Hon Judith Collins KC
Minister for the Public Service
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