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From tomorrow, the Auditor-General’s two business units – the Office of the Auditor-General and Audit New Zealand – will be merged and renamed the Audit Office. Auditor-General Grant Taylor told Parliament’s finance and expenditure select committee today that 13 people had lost their jobs because of the restructuring out of a total staff of about 500. Taylor said the two business units had technical support staff doing the same job, so once they merged, not all those staff were needed. He said three members of the senior leadership team were among those losing their jobs. Taylor said that by merging the two business units to create the Audit Office, he believed the organisation could do a better job.