12354 (2024). Hon Barbara Edmonds to the Minister of Education

12354 (2024). Hon Barbara Edmonds to the Minister of Education: For each of the new policy initiatives in the Minister’s responsible Vote for Budget 2022, if any, how many, if any, Full Time Equivalents are currently working on these initiatives, broken down by individual initiative?

Hon Erica Stanford: I am advised by the Ministry of Education (the Ministry) that a wide range of initiatives were funded through Budget 2022. The publicly available Summary of Initiatives sets out the initiatives that were funded https://www.treasury.govt.nz/sites/default/files/2022-06/b22-wellbeing-budget-soi.pdf A detailed breakdown of FTE currently working on all individual initiatives is not able to be provided due to: • Some initiatives address cost pressures such as increased rates, and do not have FTE associated. • Some initiatives contribute to ongoing multi-year initiatives. I am unable to extract FTE associated with each year of funding. • Initiatives are supported through a mix of FTEs within teams at the Ministry of Education, including regional front line staff, procurement staff supporting contract management and staff managing the relationships with providers. • Individuals at the Ministry may be working on a range of initiatives at any given time. Hours spent on each cannot easily be extracted.