A clue why the public accounts are in deficit for the next ten years and 18 billion of your taxes was wasted over the last seven years.
This is the increase in staff numbers by some major Government Departments over the last 7 years .
Oh and by the way there was no increase in output or improvement in quality of output.
| Ministry of Education | ||
| 2000 | 906 in Wellington | 1224 nationwide |
| 2002 | 1460 in Wellington | 3675 nationwide |
| 2004 | 1899 in Wellington | 5553 nationwide |
| 2006 | 1998 in Wellington | 5756 nationwide |
| 2007 | 2202 in Wellington | 5907 nationwide |
| Ministry of Health | ||
| 2000 | 834 in Wellington | 911 nationwide |
| 2002 | 1202 in Wellington | 1673 nationwide |
| 2004 | 1641 in Wellington | 2204 nationwide |
| 2006 | 1958 in Wellington | 3545 nationwide |
| 2007 | 2265 in Wellington | 2595 nationwide |
| Department of Corrections | ||
| 2000 | 1425 in Wellington | 7698 nationwide |
| 2002 | 1822 in Wellington | 8595 nationwide |
| 2004 | 2208 in Wellington | 9435 nationwide |
| 2006 | 2600 in Wellington | 11,294 nationwide |
| 2007 | 2723 in Wellington | 12,877 nationwide |
| Ministry of Justice | ||
| 2000 | 345 in Wellington | 345 nationwide |
| 2002 | 373 in Wellington | 380 nationwide |
| 2004 | 1817 in Wellington | 4819 nationwide |
| 2006 | 2199 in Wellington | 5606 nationwide |
| 2007 | 3468 in Wellington | 5833 nationwide |
Source: State Services Commission (figures include fulltime equivalent staff).
We thought it was bad but this is REALLY bad.
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Don't forget courts and justice merged during this period which accounts, in part for the big increase there.
still the other increases are astonishing.
Just the tip of the iceberg!
in 2002 the New Zealand Food Safety Authority needed just five "policy analysts". Rumour is that they now have over 200!
That's GROWTH!!
Excuse a poor ignorant old fella from the provinces, but what exactly does a "Policy Analyst" do?
Is this another term for "Shiny Arse"?
Excuse a poor ignorant old fella from the provinces, but what exactly does a "Policy Analyst" do?
Produce reports that are not read - that's in addition to the usual burocrat habits of scratching bits of anatomy, taking coffee breaks, having meetings, arriving late and leaving early, surfing the net, doing one's personal emails, and so on.
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My understanding is:
There are some who decide what reports should be written (Senior Policy Analysts),
Some who decide what font should be used (Senior policy advisors)
Some who decide how many pages the report should contain (Policy advisors)
Some who collect facts and figures from NZ Statistics (Policy analysts)
Some who write reports, (Junion Policy Analysts)
some who ensure the report is readable (Policy Editors)
some who read the reports that were written and edited (Policy investigators), and
some who file the reports (policy team administrators.
Then there are the others (POlicy Directors, Policy Managers, Policy Team Leaders) who make sure that the others know what they are doing.
As I understand it, the damand for these people is so high (an average day shows 100 vacancies on the Gov'ts job site with the word POLICY in them) that the basic qualification is a temerature of 37.7 and a regular expansion and compression of the chest.
Of course, this is just what I understand. The truth may be something to be concerned about!
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