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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.

Rob Hosking
Mon, 14 Nov 2011

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
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