We are currently preparing our second long-term insights briefing, which will explore trends, risks and opportunities facing our Public Service.
Draft briefing
Consultation on the draft of our second long-term insights briefing ran from 30 July to 24 August 2025.
We are are now processing the submissions and finalising the briefing.
The draft briefing can be found here:
The Future of Public Service Integrity – Long-term Insights Briefing
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.
Privacy statement for consultation
We collect your name and email address so that we can send you updates on the outcome of this consultation.
We’ll keep your information safe by storing it in encrypted files and only allowing certain staff to access it.
You have the right to ask for a copy of any personal information we hold about you, and to ask for it to be corrected if you think it is wrong.
If you’d like to ask for a copy of your information, or to have it corrected, please contact us by email, phone or post:
commission@publicservice.govt.nz
+64 4 495 6600
PO Box 329, Wellington 6140
All personal information will be removed from your submission before it is published on our website once the consultation has closed, unless we have your permission to do otherwise. We publish submissions in the interests of transparency and to inform public discussion on this topic.
Next steps
We are analysing the feedback received from the latest consultation and finalising the briefing. Once the briefing is finished, it will be tabled in Parliament and referred to a Select Committee for further discussion. When the final briefing has been tabled in Parliament, we will also publish it here on our website.
If you are interested in getting updates on this process and future long-term insights briefings, feel free to email us.
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.