1 March 2024
Tom Burton
[FYI request #25575 email]
Ref: OIA-2023/24-0479
Dear Tom
Official Information Act request relating to staff turnover.
Thank you for your Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) request received on 31 January
2024. You requested:
“Grateful if could provide an indication of staff turnover broken down by business group
for DPMC for the previous financial year and present financial year.”
Please find below two tables outlining the staff turnover for the 2022/23 financial year (FY), as
at 30 June 2023 for the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC) and the
National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), as a Departmental Agency under DPMC.
As the 2023/24 FY is ongoing (1 July 2023 – 30 June 2024), we do not hold a full count of staff
turnover data for this year. Therefore, this part of your request is refused under section 18(g)
of the Act, as it is not held.
Please also note that some of the business groups within DPMC are quite small, which can
distort turnover rates. Therefore, we have included the business unit sizes in an additional
column for reference.
Table 1: Count of DPMC turnover by percentage (%) for the 2022/23 FY, 1 July 2022 to 30
June 2023, broken down by business unit:
Permanent
Staff Turnover %
Staff
Business Unit
as at 30 Jun 2023
Headcount as
(2022/23 FY)
at 30 June
2023
Policy Advisory
26.50%
19
Group
Cabinet Office
11.40%
27
Child Wellbeing and
25.80%
9
Poverty
Government House
17.20%
31
National Security
18.70%
110
Group
Strategy,
Governance and
24.50%
28
Engagement Group
DPMC Total
20.13%
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Table 2: Count of NEMA turnover by percentage (%) for the 2022/23 FY, 1 July 2022 to 30
June 2023:
Permanent
Staff Turnover %
Staff
Business Unit
as at 30 Jun 2023
Headcount as
(2022/23 FY)
at 30 June
2023
National Emergency
16.6%
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Management Agency
You have the right to ask the Ombudsman to investigate and review my decision under section
28(3) of the Act.
This response wil be published on the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet’s website
during our regular publication cycle. Typically, information is released monthly, or as otherwise
determined. Your personal information including name and contact details will be removed for
publication.
Yours sincerely
Clare Ward
Executive Director
Strategy, Governance and Engagement
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