Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment — up roughly 2,900+ staff overall during Labour’s term, driven heavily by Immigration NZ, climate policy and construction regulation.
Public Service Commission +1.
Ministry of Social Development — up about 2,277 staff, linked to welfare expansion, social programmes, Covid response, and new social sector coordination units.
Ministry of Education — increased by roughly 1,679 staff, including curriculum, policy, learning support, and reform administration.
Oranga Tamariki — added about 1,340 staff during the period as child protection and social intervention programmes expanded.
Ministry for Primary Industries — up around 1,300 staff.
Ministry of Justice — up roughly 1,122 staff overall, including court operations, violence reduction programmes, and inquiry support.
Department of Corrections — increased by about 1,073 staff.
Stats NZ — grew by around 779 staff, partly related to census and data expansion.
Ministry for the Environment — one of the fastest percentage increases, growing roughly 189% under Labour due largely to climate and environmental policy work.
Ministry for Pacific Peoples — fastest percentage growth at roughly 269%.
Other notable growth areas included:
Communications and PR staff across departments — rising more than 50% to over 530 roles by 2023.
Senior management ranks — up about 33%, with more than 1,000 additional senior managers added.
Overall, the core public service grew from roughly 47,000–50,000 FTE staff in 2017/18 to around 65,000–66,000 by late 2023 — about a 34–40% increase depending on which baseline is used.
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7 comments:
The general formula seems to be
MORE WOKE = MORE D.E.I. = MORE STAFF = MORE COST = LESS EFFICIENCY
Replace 'more' with 'less' for the first four and 'less' with 'more' for the last. Problem solved.
Retrench all and I mean all who have entered since 2017 there will be a few good casualties but the ratio will still be rewarding.
All savings to tax cuts.
Coalition looses very few votes in Wellington but wins more in other parts of NZ.
Many of the retrenched will flee to Australia's woke team and hopefully stay there.
I picture this scenario.
> Wednesday morning, today The Senior Exec, of The Ministry of Statistics, meets with The Minister, to present a statistical review of the last 6 months.
He arrives at his desk, followed by his P.A. carrying his morning cup of black coffee, sits at his desk upon which sit 3 folders.
he picks up the first folder - it contains just 3 pages - he reads, he picks up the phone, dials a number and says -
"Bernard this report is not good enough, it shows that we have not met the required levels of containing statistics and will not be acceptable to The Minister and cabinet.
Is there anyway to 'fudge' the data - what do you means it will take several weeks, Bernard you have 500 hundred people in your domain surely they could work miracles"?
"What, 65 are on Tangi Leave, 100 have gone on Marae experience, 2 are sick, what about the rest - oh most work from home so you are unable to enact with them".
"Would it help if I asked The Minister to increase our staffing levels, it would".
Nomention of the outfit which dreams up te reo words and inflicts on hundreds of thousands, diverting from productive effort. Or of the outfit which works with maori to encourage exploitation of mug colonists under the guise of Treaty settlement.
It's not just their salary, it's the office space, the computer and phone, the ACC costs and the pensions, all taxpayer funded. Have any of these people made the boat go faster or do their interactions with other people slow them down as well?
Why wasn't this started two years ago? And the politicians want a four year term! Nothing would change. Everything important would still be left to election year, no matter how long the term
So, did we experience more?
- Immigration
- Welfarism
- Improved Education
- Child Protection or Abuse
- Output From Producers
- Better Justice or More Crime
- Increased Incarceration
- Better Environmental Management
- Better Planning and Decisions.
Once we can answer these questions "honestly" we might be able to decide where the reductions could be made.
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