OIA25-0494
6 August 2025
C Bennett
[FYI request #31541 email]
Dear C Bennett
Thank you for your email of 15 July 2025 requesting a full organisational chart of the Ministry
for Primary Industries (MPI) and a breakdown of staff working on specific policy related
subjects. Your request has been considered under the Of icial Information Act 1982 (OIA).
You requested the following:
- An organisational chart for the Ministry for Primary Industries. Not limited to senior
management level but capturing all staff employed by the Ministry. Given issues with
privacy, I am not requesting the names of staff just their roles/job titles.
- A breakdown of how many staff at the Ministry are working on policy related to; a)
sheep and beef b) forestry c) fisheries d) aquaculture e) horticulture f) apiculture g)
dairy g) deer h) arable
The information that you have requested does not currently exist in a form that can be readily
supplied to you and would instead require MPI to initiate a project to extract, analyse and
present the data in the form requested. Therefore, this part of your request is refused under
section 18(g) of the OIA, as the information requested is not held by MPI, and we have no
grounds for believing that it is held by another agency or more closely connected with the
functions of another agency.
Please note that the Ombudsman has advised that information is not considered to be held
by an agency in instances where a request necessitates research or analysis of source data
in order to generate fresh information in a form different from that in which the base data is
held.
However, we do have a branch-by-branch structure view for all business units and
directorates online that was used as part of the
Improving our Efficiency project – Ministry for
Primary Industries 2024 Change Programme. This is available at
https:/ www.mpi.govt.nz/dmsdocument/65973/direct/. There is also information about our
senior leadership team (Tier 1 and Tier 2) at
https:/ www.mpi.govt.nz/about-
mpi/structure/senior-leadership-team-at-mpi/.
Charles Fergusson Building, 38–42 Bowen Street
PO Box 2526
Wellington 6140, New Zealand
mpi.govt.nz

Should you have any concerns with this response, I would encourage you to raise these with
the Ministry for Primary Industries at
[email address]. Alternatively, you
are advised of your right to also raise any concerns with the Office of the Ombudsman.
Contact details are: Office of the Ombudsman, PO Box 10152, Wellington 6143 or at
[email address].
Yours sincerely
Kaye Ryan
Director, People & Capability
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