24283 (2025). Francisco Hernandez to the Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage

24283 (2025). Francisco Hernandez to the Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage: How much, if anything, is being budgeted in the 2025/26 financial year for redundancy payments, severance or other termination packages in the Minister’s departments, agencies, crown entities and any other bodies that the Minister is responsible for, if any, and how much has been budgeted and spent in the past five financial years?

Hon Paul Goldsmith: For information relating to the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, I am advised that for 2025/26, I refer the Member to reply number 24288 (2025). For previous years, I refer the Member to question 91 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