39333 (2025). Dr Tracey McLellan to the Minister of Corrections

39333 (2025). Dr Tracey McLellan to the Minister of Corrections: Further to response 37995 (2025) How many supported accommodation and reintegration service contracts does Corrections operate now and in August 2024 and August 2023?

Hon Mark Mitchell: As one of New Zealand’s largest public service departments, Corrections employs approximately 11,000 staff and is responsible for managing around 10,500 prisoners and approximately 26,000 people in the community. I am advised that as at 13 August 2025, Corrections’ Reintegration and Community Services team manages 321 contracts that support reintegration. Of these, 73 are for supported accommodation and reintegration services, including navigational services and bail support services. These figures relate to contracts centrally managed and do not include local contracts which would require substantial manual assessment to provide which I am not prepared to ask of my officials for the purposes of this response. Corrections manages 17 prisons and a significant number of Community Corrections sites across the country. As supported accommodation and reintegration service contracts can be run locally and across regions, Corrections has advised that they would have to consult extensively across their organisation to be able to accurately respond to this request for previous years, which I am not prepared to ask of my officials for the purposes of this response.