24278 (2025). Francisco Hernandez to the Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage

24278 (2025). Francisco Hernandez to the Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage: How many redundancy processes have been initiated, if any, in the Minister’s departments, agencies, crown entities and any other bodies that the Minister is responsible for, if any, as at 22 May 2025, since 27 November 2023, and how much was the total cost in New Zealand dollar terms, if any?

Hon Paul Goldsmith: I refer the member to question 1 of the 2023/24 Annual Review of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, publicly available here: https://www.parliament.nz/resource/en-NZ/54SCSSC_EVI_e7113766-5372-4670-6fe3-08dcebf31e9f_SSC10704/5d176172855b773221a0a77b5c352bd5faf6ad4c#page=12&zoom=100,92,137 Boards of Crown entities are responsible for the policies and operational matters of the Crown entity they govern. This includes matters relating to staff resourcing and restructures. I do not receive information at this level of detail as part of the regular reporting of the Crown entities that I am responsible for.