National responds to business criticism
National has wheeled out a catelogue of 120 measures, apparently in response to a survey showing most businesses do not think the government has a plan.
National has wheeled out a catalogue of 120 measures, apparently in response to a survey showing most businesses do not think the government has a plan.
The catalogue was released this afternoon by Prime Minster John Key, backed by a business-related ministers Stephen Joyce, David Carter and Hekia Parata.
Most of the catalogue is not new: the most significant new measure is a new $15 million a year "national science challenges" programme.
Mr Key singled this policy out for attention, describing it as the most important of the group.
Last week Business New Zealand/Deloitte's pre-election conference released a survey of the country's businesses which showed most do not believe National has a coherent plan to deal with the country's economic challenges.
Mr Key said today's release was "not really a response to that but [the survey] did highlight to us that maybe we are not doing all we could have done to put our programme out there there."
Rob Hosking
Mon, 14 Nov 2011
Mon, 14 Nov 2011
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National responds to business criticism
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