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Flower bill prompts questions (NZPA)
Auckland :: New Zealand | 1 day ago
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A bill for flowers in Finance Minister Bill English's office has not come up smelling of roses. The New Zealand Herald reported today the bill was $4051 over the first 11 months of the new government. The figure was about twice what his ministerial colleagues...
Tags: New Zealand, Auckland, Prime minister, Politics, Chris Hipkins, Floristry, Michael Cullen, Flower, Bill English, Rose
Buy own furniture, ministers told
Wellington :: New Zealand | 10 days ago
Credibility New documents have been released about a change that will give most ministers a flat sum of $37,500 a year to cover all their Wellington accommodation expenses...Under the new arrangements, a stocktake of chattels is planned and ministers who do not want...
Tags: New Zealand, Wellington, Politics, Bill English, Prime Minister of Canada, Prime minister, Anand Satyanand, Cabinet of the United Kingdom, Premier House, Constitution of New Zealand, Government of the United Kingdom, New Zealand Cabinet
Labour claims victory over TVNZ promo
Auckland :: New Zealand | 12 days ago
Credibility But he says Mr English's misjudgment was worse. "Here you've got the country's most powerful financial politician not displaying an understanding of conflict of interest. He's received what could be a million dollars worth of free political ads, from...
Tags: Labour, TVNZ, David Cunliffe, New Zealand, Auckland, Cunliffe, Television New Zealand, Politics, Bill English, Republicanism in New Zealand, Business Finance, TVNZ 7, Rick Ellis
Labour: English's homes saga not over
Wellington :: New Zealand | about 1 month ago
Credibility Labour will not stop its attacks on Deputy Prime Minister Bill English over his housing allowance despite the watchdog of public spending clearing him of wrongdoing yesterday. Labour seized on a finding in the Auditor-General's report that Mr English...
Tags: housing allowances, finance minister, Wellington, Bill English
Expert shocked by TVNZ 7 English ad
Wellington :: New Zealand | about 1 month ago
Credibility Finance Minister Bill English looked so much like a party political broadcast she thought the rules had changed. Massey University political marketing specialist Claire Robinson also said the ads were worth a fortune – hundreds of thousands of dollars...
Tags: Bill English, finance minister, Newstalk ZB, auditor general, TVNZ, Auditor-General, correctly completed, Mr English, housing allowances, wellington accommodation
Government deficit hits $10.6 billion (Newstalk ZB)
Auckland :: New Zealand | about 1 month ago
Credibility The Government's books are well and truly in the red with just released financial statements showing it is carrying an operating deficit of $10.5 billion. The figures are for the year ending in June and are an almost $13 billion deterioration from 2008.
Tags: finances minister, Bill English, New Zealand
Government extends deposit guarantee
Auckland :: New Zealand | 3 months ago
Credibility Finance Minister Bill English has announced the retail deposit guarantee scheme will be extended to 31 December 2011. The scheme, which was introduced in the face of the international financial crisis, was due to expire on 12 October 2010. Mr English...
Tags: guarantees scheme, deposit guarantees, finance companies, New Zealand, finance minister, Bill English, scheme extend, financial institution, current scheme, maintain confidence
New data reveals more MP expense claims
Wellington :: New Zealand | 3 months ago
Credibility Labour ministers spent slightly less than their National counterparts on accommodation and domestic travel expenses, but more on international travel, according to comparable data released today. The recent release of MPs' and ministers' expenses for...
Tags: Labour Party, Wellington, Phil Goff, NZPA, ordinary mp, Bill English
English defends subsidies
Wellington :: New Zealand | 4 months ago
Credibility Ousted minister Richard Worth, in his first interview since resigning, said he too had done nothing wrong in claiming thousands in Wellington accommodation costs from both Parliament and Ministerial Services. The two big parties had come under pressure...
Tags: Wellington, english defending, National Party, finance minister, taxpayer subsidies, defending taxpayer, national parties, Bill English
Bid to ease Tasman investment
Brisbane :: Australia | 4 months ago
Credibility New Zealand and Australia are looking to open the floodgates to investment between the two countries amid growing confidence the worst of the recession might be over. Finance Minister Bill English and his Australian counterpart, Treasurer Wayne Swan,...
Tags: finances minister, Bill English, Australian, New Zealanders, Brisbane, retirement savings, Mr English, treasurer wayne, super funds, NZPA
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