35595 (2025). Francisco Hernandez to the Minister for Energy

35595 (2025). Francisco Hernandez to the Minister for Energy: How many vacancies, if any, were advertised by the Minister’s departments, agencies, crown entities and any other bodies that the Minister is responsible for, if any, from January to June 2025, and how many total applicants, if any, were received for those vacancies?

Hon Simon Watts: "As Minister of Energy, I have no responsibility for any government departments or Ministries. In respect of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, I refer the Member to the Minister for Economic Growth’s answer to written parliamentary question 35402 (2025). With regard to Crown entities under the energy portfolio, I am advised from EECA that 2 EECA vacancies were advertised. EECA received a total of 103 applicants. The EA, please see the below table for total vacancies and applicant numbers from January to June for the last six years. Please note, we do not have records of the total applicants from 2020 or 2021. Vacancies Advertised Total applicants received January-June 2025 26 2068 January-June 2024 17 952 January-June 2023 17 322 January-June 2022 26 308 January-June 2021 7 No record January-June 2020 2 No record "