By Roger Partridge
NZ Herald·
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New Zealand is spending nearly $190 billion this year, but outcomes remain elusive, Roger Partridge writes. Photo / Mark Mitchell
Opinion by Roger Partridge
Roger Partridge is chair and a senior fellow at The New Zealand Initiative.
THE FACTS
- The Government will spend nearly $190 billion this year, but performance reporting focuses on spending, not outcomes.
- The Finance and Expenditure Committee is investigating whether current performance reporting meets modern expectations.
- The inquiry aims to shift focus to outcomes, with potential changes to reporting and accountability systems.
This year, the Government will spend nearly $190 billion. Yet we know remarkably little about whether those billions represent value-for-money.
The centrepiece of public sector performance is the Budget – a 700-page ledger of planned spending by department and programme. But it is not a performance report. It
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