8109 (2025). Hon Dr Ayesha Verrall to the Minister for the Public Service

8109 (2025). Hon Dr Ayesha Verrall to the Minister for the Public Service: What was the total amount paid in redundancy costs in the ministries, agencies and/or departments for which the Minister is responsible since 27 November 2023, broken down by (a) voluntary redundancies and (b) other redundancies, and what was the average payout for each category?

Hon Judith Collins: Publicly available on the Public Service Commission’s website is redundancy information collected from Workforce Data. This can be found at the following link: https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/research-and-data/workforce-data-remunerationpay/workforce-data This information will be updated to reflect 30 June 2025 data in October 2025.