• At the end of the 2023 financial year, the Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water portfolio employed 3,311 regulators. [...] • Staffing numbers at the Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water will increase by 17.5%, the highest departmental increase across the federal government. [...] The analysis measures the number of staff and the staffing costs of people employed within the federal regulatory bodies and agencies across the 2024 and 2025 financial years. [...] The methodology in this research note replicates the methodology in the February Note regarding the selection and criteria used to determine whether a government body was a regulatory body. [...] It reveals that staffing growth of all portfolios from the 2023 financial year to the 2025 financial year will average 21 per cent, but staffing at the Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water portfolio will be almost four times the national average, at 76 per cent.
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