Govt not measuring NZTE schemes properly
Thursday, 9 November 2006, 3:46 pm
Press Release: New Zealand National Party
Govt not measuring NZTE schemes properly
The
Government has today acknowledged that its NZ Trade and
Enterprise programmes are not properly measured, says
National Party Associate Economic Development spokesman
Chris Tremain.
Trevor Mallard admitted in Parliament
that NZTE still doesn’t have the mechanisms in place to
measure the success or otherwise of its business assistance
programmes.
“Given the level of investment in these
business assistance programmes, the Labour Government needs
to be 100% sure that New Zealand taxpayers are getting value
for money,” says Mr Tremain.
“To hear Trevor
Mallard tell the country that he has no idea about the
success of these programmes is not good enough.
”Therefore I will be writing to the Commerce Select
Committee today to ask for a review of how the merger that
formed NZTE has gone, and the success or otherwise of its
business assistance programmes.
“The committee has
already turned down a similar request from National MP Mark
Blumsky, but this new information should be cause for
reconsideration of that request.”
Ends
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