We have now published our second long-term insights briefing, ‘The Future of Public Service Integrity'.
Final briefing
Our final briefing is available here:
The Future of Public Service Integrity – Long-term insights briefing
You can find information about what long-term insights briefings are here:
Draft briefing
We drafted the briefing based on desktop research and data from other Commission work programmes, as well as workshops with internal and external expert stakeholders.
The final draft of the briefing was published on our website for consultation. Consultation opened on 30 July 2025 and closed on 24 August 2025. We received 25 unique submissions.
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Draft briefing consultation documentation
The consultation draft briefing can be found here:
The Future of Public Service Integrity – Long-term Insights Briefing (draft for consultation)
Email and survey submissions are published here:
Consultation on draft LTIB – email and survey submissions
A submissions analysis that summarises key themes and explains what changes were made as a result can be found here:
Consultation on draft LTIB – submissions summary and analysis
Topic of the briefing
To help build informed discussion and set the context for the development of our briefing, we consulted on what the focus of our second briefing should be. Consultation ran from 16 September to 13 October 2024 and we received 60 submissions both through our online survey and via email.
The Public Service Commissioner took feedback from the consultation into consideration and selected the topic 'The Future of Public Service Integrity'.
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Topic consultation documentation
The consultation document can be found here:
How is New Zealand’s Public Service prepared for the future?
Short email and survey submissions are published anonymously here:
LTIB topic consultation 2024 - survey submissions
Longer email submissions from organisations are published here:
LTIB topic consultation 2024 - email submissions
A submission analysis that summarises the key themes across all submissions can be found here:
LTIB topic consultation 2024 - submissions analysis and summary
The Commissioner took feedback from the consultation into consideration and has selected the topic ‘The future of public service integrity’ for the briefing. The Commissioner's signed memo is here:
Commissioner's signed memo deciding topic
An update on Ministry for Regulation's involvement in the briefing:
While we initially set out to prepare a joint briefing with the Ministry for Regulation and completed the first round of consultation with them, the two agencies have decided to proceed with separate briefings. As a new agency, the Ministry for Regulation would not be required under the Public Service Act 2020 to produce their first briefing until 2027, putting them on a very different timeline from the Commission.
Next steps
The briefing will be scrutinised by a parliamentary select committee.
Long-term Insights Briefings
More information on long-term insights briefings including a list of published briefings and current consultations can be found on our website.