33129 (2025). Francisco Hernandez to the Minister for the Public Service

33129 (2025). Francisco Hernandez to the Minister for the Public Service: How many deputy chief executive or equivalent roles, if any, are in the Minister's departments, agencies, crown entities and any other bodies that the Minister is responsible for, if any, and what is the total number of employees in these departments, agencies, crown entities or any other bodies that the Minister is responsible for?

Hon Judith Collins: I am advised that the Public Service Commission has three Deputy Chief Executives, one Deputy Public Service Commissioner | Deputy Chief Executive , and one Deputy Commissioner. For the total number of employees at the Public Service Commission, I refer the member to the 2025/26 Estimates for Vote Public Service - Minister for the Public Service (Responses to supplementary questions 1-168 for Vote Public Service) which is publicly available on the Parliament website at the following link: https://www.parliament.nz/resource/en-NZ/54SCGOA_EVI_d7846180-2b1a-4ac6-cdc7-08dd9cbad1c0_GOA37369/c6b3c02ab7c4ee44f5e664beaff219eeecee1eec