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What is the forecast change in full-time-equivalent staffing for each of the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service and the Government Communications Security Bureau over the four years to 2029/30, if any, given those agencies are exempt from baseline savings but subject to the full-time-equivalent reduction in Budget 2026, and how does that reconcile with the Intelligence and Security Uplift funding?

Answered Question 24273 (2026)
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Vanushi Walters

List MP · Labour Party

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  • What is the forecast change in full-time-equivalent staffing for each of the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service and the Government Communications Security Bureau over the four years to 2029/30, if any, given those agencies are exempt from baseline savings but subject to the full-time-equivalent reduction in Budget 2026, and how does that reconcile with the Intelligence and Security Uplift funding?

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Hon Chris Penk

Member for Kaipara ki Mahurangi · National Party · Minister responsible for the GCSB and NZSIS

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It is not in the public interest for me to release financial information related to the intelligence agencies.