41546 (2025). Camilla Belich to the Minister for the Public Service

41546 (2025). Camilla Belich to the Minister for the Public Service: How many officials, if any, are currently working on options for restructuring or merging smaller ministries, and from which departments, listed by job title and department?

Hon Judith Collins: Part of the role of the Public Service Commissioner is to ‘review the design and operation of the system of government agencies to advise the Minister or the appropriate Minister on: • possible improvements to delivery of services and inter-agency cohesion • agency establishments, disestablishments, and amalgamations • the governance and allocation of functions, and the transfer of functions to and between agencies’ (Public Service Act s44) Resourcing such work is a matter for the Commissioner.