Government clear on future direction for WINZ
Minister of Social Services and Employment
Associate
Minister of Education
(Tertiary Education)
23 December
1999
Embargoed until 12am, 26 December 1999
Government clear on future direction for WINZ
A post-election briefing paper prepared by Work and Income NZ (WINZ) for the Minister of Social Services and Employment will assist the Government to refocus the department, Steve Maharey said today.
"The Government has been very clear about the changes we want to see at WINZ. This week I have spoken with Mrs. Rankin and her senior officials and we went through the expectations which the new Government expects the department to deliver on.
"The WINZ briefing paper will be useful to the Government because it outlines many of the challenges that we also highlighted during the election campaign and in our policy. Getting WINZ to move off in a new direction is a key task for me as Minister", Steve Maharey said.
ENDS
Copies of the WINZ post-election
briefing paper are available the Minister's office. Contact
Michael Gibbs, Press Secretary, (04) 471
9154