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What categories of sexual harassment allegations have been recorded in each calendar year since 2015 in relation to any staff, employees, secondees, contractors, or office holders for whom the Minister has responsibility in connection with the portfolio, broken down by type of allegation, if any?

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Camilla Belich

List MP · Labour Party

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  • What categories of sexual harassment allegations have been recorded in each calendar year since 2015 in relation to any staff, employees, secondees, contractors, or office holders for whom the Minister has responsibility in connection with the portfolio, broken down by type of allegation, if any?

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Hon Penny Simmonds

Member for Invercargill · National Party · Minister for the Environment

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The Environmental Protection Authority has not had any cases of sexual harassment since 2015. I am advised the Ministry for the Environment logs all workplace bullying, harassment, and sexual harm incidents under the categorisation “Bullying/Harassment” and does not break these down into any further sub-categorisations. The Ministry has no recorded instances of sexual harm since 2015.