Our Long-term Insights Briefings

For information about long-term insights briefings across the whole public service system, see here.

Long-term insights briefings are a requirement under the Public Service Act 2020. Every Public Service department (including Te Kawa Mataaho Public Service Commission) must produce (or contribute to) a long-term insights briefing every 3 years. 

The purpose of these briefings is to: 

• support stewardship by ensuring our Public Service departments are thinking about the more complex long-running issues facing society, and are exploring capabilities and solutions that might be needed to respond to these issues. 

• make the information and analysis public to New Zealanders to support informed public discourse on important issues. It also enables effective democratic government by providing parties from across the political spectrum with a basis to formulate their policies. 

The legislation requires that the briefings are prepared independently of Ministers. This ensures that they reflect the best professional view of the Public Service chief executives. The legislation also requires that the public is consulted on: 

• the subject matter to be included in the briefing, and 

• a draft of the briefing once this is prepared. 

This ensures that the briefing covers a topic and information that the public cares about and wants to engage with.