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4/11/2025
Lauren
[FYI request #32500 email]
Tēnā koe Lauren
OIA: 1353960 – Roles disestablished within the Ministry of Education
Thank you for your email of 6 October 2025 to the Ministry of Education (the Ministry) requesting
the following information:
Since the current Government assumed office on 27 November 2023 to the present
day:
1. how many jobs have been disestablished within the Ministry of Education?
2. how many disestablishments affected Māori specific roles, teams or entities?
3. how many of these disestablished roles were held by Māori (by ethnicity)?
4. how many of these disestablishments were held by wāhine Māori?
Your request has been considered under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) and numbered
for administrative ease. We have interpreted “jobs” to mean role or position.
Regarding
part one of your request, please see
Table 1 at
Appendix A.
The Ministry does not define roles or teams as Māori specific. I am therefore refusing
part two of
your request under section 18(g) as the information requested is not held by the Ministry, and I
have no grounds for believing that it is either held by, or connected more closely with the functions
of another organisation or agency subject to the Act. However, I can provide the number of
positions disestablished in Te Pou Tuarongo | Māori Education division as a result of the Savings
Programme in 2024. Please see
Table 2 at
Appendix A.
Additional information relating to the Ministry’s Savings programme, which commenced in
November 2023 is also available and can be accessed on our website using the following link:
www.education.govt.nz/our-work/information-releases/issue-specific-information-releases/ministry-
educations-savings-programme.
Wellington National Office, 1 The Terrace, Levels 5 to 14, Wellington 6011
PO Box 1666, Wellington 6140, DX SR51201 Phone: +64 4 463 8000
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Regarding
part three and four of your request, please see
Table 3 at
Appendix A. Please note
that ethnicity and gender are based on what an employee has selected in the HR system.
Please note, employees in roles that were disestablished may have been redeployed to other roles
within the Ministry, taken voluntary redundancy or been made redundant.
Please note, we may publish this response on our website after five working days. Your name and
contact details will be removed.
Thank you again for your email. You have the right to ask an Ombudsman to review my decision
on your request, in accordance with section 28 of the Act. You can do this by writing to
[email address] or to Office of the Ombudsman, PO Box 10152, Wellington 6143.
Nāku noa, nā
Sarah Gray
General Mangager Integration Services
Te Pou Rangatōpū | Corporate
OIA: 1353960
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