Minister for Customer Service and Digital Government

The Minister for Customer Service and Digital Government is a minister in the Government of New South Wales responsible for administering legislation and policy in relation to the state's revenues, consumer affairs regulations, innovation policy, property and housing administration, co-operative societies, and government records in New South Wales, Australia. The minister's responsibilities also include matters relating to government services and service delivery, and their improvement.[1][2][3][4]

Minister for Customer Service and Digital Government
Incumbent
Jihad Dib
since 5 April 2023
Department of Customer Service
StyleThe Honourable
NominatorPremier of New South Wales
AppointerGovernor of New South Wales
Inaugural holderJohn Waddy (as Minister for Services)
Formation3 January 1975

The minister administers their portfolio through the Customer Service cluster, in particular the Department of Customer Service, Service NSW, the State Records Authority, NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages and a range of other government agencies.[5]

Ultimately the ministers are responsible to the Parliament of New South Wales.

List of ministers

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Customer service and digital government

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The following individuals have served as Minister for Customer Service and Digital Government, or any precedent titles:

Ministerial title Minister [2] Party Ministry Term start Term end Time in office Notes
Minister for Services John Waddy   Liberal Lewis (1) (2) 3 January 1975 23 January 1976 1 year, 20 days
Minister for Services Ron Mulock   Labor Wran (1) 14 May 1976 10 February 1977 272 days
William Haigh 10 February 1977 19 October 1978 1 year, 251 days
Bill Crabtree Wran (2) (3) 19 October 1978 2 October 1981 2 years, 348 days
Peter Anderson Wran (4) 2 October 1981 26 May 1982 236 days
Minister for Administrative Services Matt Singleton   National       Greiner (1) 25 March 1988 24 January 1989 305 days
Robert Webster 24 January 1989 6 June 1991 2 years, 133 days
Anne Cohen   Liberal Greiner (2)
Fahey (1) (2) (3)
6 June 1991 4 April 1995 3 years, 302 days
Minister for Public Works and Services Michael Knight   Labor Carr (1) 4 April 1995 15 December 1995 255 days
Carl Scully 15 December 1995 1 December 1997 1 year, 351 days
Ron Dyer Carr (2) 1 December 1997 8 April 1999 1 year, 128 days
Morris Iemma Carr (3) 8 April 1999 2 April 2003 3 years, 359 days
Minister for the State Plan [a] Linda Burney   Labor Keneally 8 December 2009 28 March 2011 1 year, 110 days [7]
Minister for Finance and Services Greg Pearce   Liberal O'Farrell 3 April 2011 1 August 2013 2 years, 120 days
Andrew Constance 1 August 2013 23 April 2014 265 days
Dominic Perrottet Baird (1) 23 April 2014 2 April 2015 2 years, 282 days
Minister for Finance, Services and Property Baird (2) 2 April 2015 30 January 2017
Victor Dominello Berejiklian (1) 30 January 2017 23 February 2019 6 years, 57 days [8][9]
Minister for Customer Service Berejiklian (2)
Perrottet (1)
2 April 2019 31 March 2021 [3]
Minister for Customer Service and Digital 31 March 2021 21 December 2021 (2021-12-21)
Minister for Customer Service and Digital Government Perrottet (2) 21 December 2021 (2021-12-21) 28 March 2023 (28 March 2023) [4]
Jihad Dib   Labor Minns 5 April 2023 incumbent 1 year, 212 days

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ The State Plan was intended to provide better service delivery across the public sector in New South Wales.[6]

References

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  1. ^ "Questions Without Notice: Special Minister of State Responsibilities (Mason-Cox, The Hon Matthew; Robertson, The Hon John)". Legislative Council Hansard. Parliament of New South Wales. 10 March 2009.
  2. ^ a b "Part 6 Ministries since 1856" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Government Notices (30)" (PDF). Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales. 2 April 2019. p. 1088-1090. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
  4. ^ a b "Parliament, Ministerial, Courts and Police (662)" (PDF). Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales. 21 December 2021.
  5. ^ "Administrative Arrangements (Administrative Changes—Public Service Agencies) Order 2019 [NSW] (159)" (PDF). Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales. 2 April 2019. p. 7-8. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
  6. ^ "PFO-326 the State Plan". NSW State Records & Archives. Retrieved 27 April 2022.   This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.
  7. ^ "The Hon. Linda Jean Burney (1957 - )". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
  8. ^ Robertson, James (28 January 2017). "Anthony Roberts, Brad Hazzard take key roles in Gladys Berejiklian reshuffle". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 29 January 2017.
  9. ^ "Refreshed NSW cabinet sworn in". Sky News. Australia. AAP. 30 January 2017. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
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