41693 (2024). Hon Dr Ayesha Verrall to the Minister for the Environment

41693 (2024). Hon Dr Ayesha Verrall to the Minister for the Environment: In the Minister’s departments, ministries and agencies, if any, how many roles, if any, have been identified for disestablishment, listed by role title, remuneration band, and business group (or equivalent organisational unit), between 27 November 2023 and 10 July 2024?

Hon Penny Simmonds: Consultation with staff on the proposed new structure for the Ministry for the Environment closed on the 2 July 2024. The Ministry is considering staff feedback on the proposed structure prior to final decisions which are proposed to be announced at the end of July. From 1 December 2024, the Ministry confirmed and established its new operating model structure for Tier 2 and 3 roles. This resulted in the disestablishment of 45 Tier 2 and 3 leadership roles (Deputy Secretary and Director, respectively). The Ministry established the following number of leadership roles under its new structure: General Manager – 33 positions; Deputy Secretary – 6 positions; Chief of Staff – 1 position. Not all Director and Deputy Secretary roles were filled by permanent employees at the time the new structure was confirmed. As such, all affected staff were redeployed resulting in no job losses and no redundancies. In early April 2024, outside of the Operating Model review, the Ministry disestablished 1.0 FTE that resulted in redundancy.